Notable New York, This Week 10/26 – 11/1
In New York this week, James Frey and Maira Kalman at the CLMP Spelling Bee, members of The National collaborate with visual artist Matthew Ritchie in The Long Count at…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #8
You probably stood up too fast. All day? Maybe you’ve been standing up too fast all day then. No, we’re not getting one. Because, Doug, those detectors are just a scam…
Morning Coffee
Mondays are good days for best ofs and photography (this is a fact, look it up). Here are some birds eye view pictures and some taken through microscopes. 19th Century…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Can you tell the difference between E. E. Cummings and a YouTube commenter? (It’s really not as hard as it looks.) Caroline Guinzio has been guest blogging at Unstressed this…
The Last Book/Poem I Loved: “The Changing Light at Sandover” by James Merrill
It took me three months to pound my way through James Merrill’s epic poem, his universe, his vision of the afterlife as told through a Ouija board in a conversation…
Science Saturday
In yet another example of how the real world is far weirder than most peoples’ imaginations, I give you brain-shrinking algae. NASA has an iPhone app. There are scientific questions…
Unthinkable Movie Remakes
John Patterson, writing in The Guardian, suggests it might be time to consider remaking/updating the Orson Welles masterpiece Citizen Kane. The obvious choice of subject, Patterson says, is media mogul…
Saturday Morning Links
Saturday mornings, y’all–we’re all about the linkage. The box set wars are in earnest now. AC/DC has upped the ante by including a guitar amp in its $200 box set.…
Care to Join the Conversation?
A while back, the Rumpus quietly launched a new series: Conversations about the Internet. And we hereby invite interested writers to join in.
Morning Coffee
Did we evolve from rocks? I sure hope so! Gabriel Garcia Marquez was under surveillance for years. Volunteers wanted for simulated 520-day Mars mission. Where do I sign up? “Hello,…