Have you always wanted to write for The Rumpus part two
Yesterday, Stephen made you an incredible offer. I’m here to expand it. Do you have a favorite obscure poem (and no, poems are not necessarily obscure) or collection of poems…
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Saturday Morning Links
If you’re not reading Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, you ought to be. This dog would be fully justified in refusing to warn its owners in the event of a house…
Morning Coffee
I heart Ernst Haeckel. (via Metafilter.) Kevin Barnes interviews Daryl Hall. Awesome. Umbrella cloud. Every single page of every single issue of Time Magazine from the 30s through the 70s.…
FUNNY WOMEN #3: Q: “What Will You Do with an MFA in Poetry?”
A: First of all, you can put away your old-school notions about the liberal arts. Back when you grew up, Plato banished poets from his Republic. These days, there is…
The Aptly-Named “Dead Hand”
Remember Dr. Strangelove? The Doomsday Machine? It turns out that something very like it, called the Dead Hand, was actually operational, in the USSR, from 1984 at latest, and its…
Don DeLillo on Writing as Freedom
Not long ago I was re-reading Jonathan Franzen’s famous Harper’s Essay as background to an essay I was working on, and towards the end Franzen quotes Don DeLillo, who had written…
Morning Coffee
Giving blood doesn’t have to be boring, it can be terrifyingly futuristic too! “Efforts to prevent foul weather on Oct. 1 involved satellites, 400 scientists, cloud-probing lasers and a squadron…
Morning Coffee
This is the sort of thing that people do in Finland: forkless bicycle! This is the sort of thing that people do in Croatia: sweet water organ! This is the…
Morning Coffee
Today is a good day for map based infographics: charting the 250 greatest movies of all time and the 7 deadly sins. Miniature architecture fashioned from re-purposed kitchen and hardware…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #3
GLENN BECK ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Glenn Beck.
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #4
Feng shui? Fuck that, Doug. This katana sword is going right over the headboard. It’s sexy.