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…
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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…
Subscribe Anyway
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…
Saturday Morning Links
Welcome to Saturday, everyone. Hope you find this stuff as entertaining as I did. I’m not quite sure just what to make of this story: women in bathing sits and…
Indie Bookseller Weighs in on the Kindle
In San Francisco there’s a great little indie bookstore called Borderlands Books, which sells science fiction, fantasy, and horror titles. In a recent newsletter, store founder Alan Beatts offered his…
Lies and Deception
“You wouldn’t want to live in a world where you can’t be conned, because if you were, you would be living in a world with no trust. That’s the price…
A Field Guide To Military Urbanism
“I mean, when you’re forced to smuggle, by sheer necessity of survival, due to forces completely outside of your own control, when the power to decide your own destiny has…
Morning Coffee
Dan and Stephen are both going to be out of town next week. It’s ok, we’ll make it through this. A little hometown pride: San Francisco turning toxic site into…
The Joys Of Overland Travel
In my opinion, the worst part about travelling is flying. It’s expensive, it’s boring, the food is awful, the people are usually not that interesting, the environmental and financial impact…
An Agrarian Revolution In Detroit (And Oakland)
“Were I an aspiring farmer in search of fertile land to buy and plow, I would seriously consider moving to Detroit. There is open land, fertile soil, ample water, willing…