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Discussing Wilfred With a Furry
NY Magazine decided to take a look at the tv show Wilfred through the eyes of a furry named Kilcodo. If that name sounds familiar, it might be because The Rumpus interviewed Kilcodo just over a year ago (which NY…
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Tupper’s Other Ware
Earl Tupper, inventor of Tupperware, would have been 104 yesterday. This piece offers a glimpse of Tupper’s other inventions, complete with his own sketches. While it was those plastic containers that brought him success, his journals show a plethora of…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’ll be taking a break for the next two weeks so my band can go on tour, but I promise you you’ll be ok. Another day, another story about the Neanderthal’s demise. Another day, another abandoned German theme park. Seriously,…
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Magazines Everywhere
The economics of publishing a literary magazine reveal some inauspicious stats. Magazine editors have to stay crafty and constantly reinvent what it means to be innovative, just to survive. Even offering digital options as an alternative to print doesn’t guarantee…
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Chats with Random Men #15: Fakhir
Alina Simone becomes the target of a globe-encompassing beam of love in this edition of Chats with Random Men.
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The First ?
Does anyone else think the question mark is the most beautiful of all punctuation marks? Well, the very first question mark may have looked more like a colon. Discovered in Syriac manuscripts of the Bible from the fifth century, the…
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The Google Effect
This might seem obvious to many, but apparently there is now research behind the idea that smart phones, computers and the Internet are weakening our memories. According to this article, the phenomena is called the “Google effect” (which you can…
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80s Difference
Looking back at 80s media, this video curated essay examines the meaning of difference in Miami Vice, Pretty in Pink, and Ferris Bueller, through the lens of author Mash Tupitsyn’s own coming of age. Reflecting on her motivations for identifying…
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The Last Poet I Loved: Dolores Dorantes
I was at a writer’s conference in San Miguel de Allende when a classmate first introduced me to the work of Mexican poet Dolores Dorantes. All month long my class had been required to introduce each other to new poetry…
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A Literary Bone Hunt
Ever wonder what happened to author of Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes’ bones? So have a bunch of historians and archaeologists. They’ve been trying to track them down, hoping to reveal whether there is any veracity in the rumors that…
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That’s Gross
Some things automatically disgust us, while others are learned triggered from an emotional experience. Salon.com is dabbling in some neuroscience, speaking with Daniel Kelly who is an assistant professor at Purdue University and the author of, Yuck!: The Nature and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s important to remember sometimes that basically we don’t know anything. Say hi to our little asteroid buddy. The solution to all our transit woes is SLIDES. It’s always a good day to rethink about what killed the dinosaurs.