Recollections of a 1903 Fireman
A Journey Round my Skull doesn’t just publish wonderful things to his blog; he also tweets about wonderful things on other people’s blogs. Today he posted a link to a…
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The Monthly Rumpus
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…
Morning Coffee
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…
Morning Coffee
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…
The Web is the New Phone
“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…
Morning Coffee
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…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
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…
Someone is going to get shot
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…
Random Media Notes
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…
Weaponizing Irony
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…