The Future Business Model for Newspapers
King Kaufman is one of my favorite sports columnists ever, and it killed me when Salon changed his job description. But this isn’t about sports. It’s about the future of…
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Coming Soon: Sex Galaxy
What do you get when you splice together burlesque queens, 50’s sci-fi, and other bits of film that were never properly copyrighted? You get the first blue/green film–green because it’s…
Can Creative Writing Be Taught?
I’ll hazard a guess and say that the majority of people who contribute to and work on the Rumpus have some sort of writing degree or are pursuing one, and…
Sometimes There’s Nothing Else To Do
Novelist Orhan Pamuk asks in The Guardian “why do beautiful scenes inspire us to kiss?” Millions of people who live outside the west – and especially those who, like me,…
Saturday Morning Links
Because it’s Saturday, and because at heart I’m a child, Who Pooped? It’s hard to say just how super they are, but there are superheroes roaming around. I wonder if…
The Machine that Changed the World
Just in case you were looking for a compelling 5-part documentary series to watch for free over the weekend, consider The Machine that Changed the World, a history of computing…
An Oral History of Myself #6: Pat
I left home at thirteen and spent a year on the streets, more or less, and four years in group homes. Because of that my social network was significantly wider…
Morning Coffee
Helmet Palla’s extremely painful furniture. I think this says something about the fundamental problem with human beings. Squid embryos! the 2009 Princeton Art of Science awards. It’s friday, that must…
Morning Coffee
The world’s most pointless machine. Sweet! According to Scientists, Earth is going to be habitable 1 billion years longer than previously projected. Motel pools of yesteryear. (via kieravebutler) J.D. Salinger…
Over Our Heads
Regardless of how you feel about advice columns, something interesting came out of online magazine Slate‘s “Dear Prudence” chat/forum yesterday. A graduate student in mathematics wrote in to ask what…
FUNNY AMERICA: Sonia From The Block
The President revealed his nominee for the Supreme Court, selecting a 54 year- old daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants who had been elevated to The Second District Court by George…
“Accident, Mass. Ave.” by Jill McDonough
I grew up on Mass Ave. in John Leary House, a low-income apartment building for former homeless families run by The Catholic Worker. I remember the street as dirty, exciting…