Were you at August’s Monthly Rumpus? Look at how much fun you had here. Were you not at August’s Monthly Rumpus? Look at a projection of how much fun you could…
This is day three of me filling in for Dan. His absence is making me jittery. It turns out breast milk is good for babies. In other news, being stabbed…
I’m filling in for Dan this week while he’s away. I hope he’s having fun and remembering to think of me. I’m certainly thinking about him. Comics legend Al Columbia…
“We talk too much about television as an antecedent to the Web, and not enough about the telephone… In America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940, the…
Dan is gone this week. I couldn’t believe it when he emailed me and asked me to fill in here. I’ve been waiting for his friendship since the first time…
Reb Livingston has an interesting premium for people who buy a No-Tell Motel book today and tomorrow–a free tarot reading or dream interpretation. We here at The Rumpus are very…
The “debate” over health care reform in this country has gotten out of hand. If you’ve followed this story at all over the last week, you’ve been treated to reports…
What would happen if Glenn Beck had to appear before Judge Judy? Jezebel has the answer. A poet from the Bronx sues Oprah…for one TRILLION dollars. Fox News is really…
I have to admit, I feel a little assaulted myself after reading this proposal from Princeton Professors D. Graham Burnett and Jeff Dolven, which was a response to a request…
Okay, the Slate video was cute the way it compared newspaper reporters to starving children in Africa, but it reminded me of something the poet Jake Adam York suggested on…