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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 week, and I enjoyed this piece very much in light…
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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 between Merrill, his partner DJ, and the characters on the…
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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 with surprising answers, and then there’s this one. MSNBC has…
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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 Rupert Murdoch, but I like his final suggestion better: Silvio…
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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. I’d do this if the pay were right. Hell, I’d…
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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.
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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, you’ve won the Nobel.” Museums are running out of room,…
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Morning Coffee
Look, I know it’s been a long week and you still have one more day to go. Look at these pictures of waves. Everything is going to be ok. Women are evolving. Good Ol Gregor Brown. Cookie cup! Who says…
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Morning Coffee
Spanish street art is a pretty good way to start a day. Whale shark! a new London exhibit considers what museums should throw away. Bad ass authors more bad ass than the bad asses they created. Giving blood-sucking leeches a…
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FUNNY WOMEN #5: What We Were Really Saying
Me I verb you. Him I similarly feel for you in this way, but I’ll never say the word verb. I have feelings only only when I feel like it.