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An Oral History of Myself #7: Fat Mike
In 2005 I began interviewing people I grew up with and transcribing the interviews, creating a kind of memoir but in other people’s words.
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Harvard Study ‘Punctures Twitter Hype’
That’s the claim of a BBC News article which quotes the study’s lead researcher, Bill Heil, as follows: “Twitter is a broadcast medium rather than an intimate conversation with friends,” and “it looks like a few people are creating content…
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Zach Galifianakis Is Absurd
John Wray, author of the novel Lowboy, recently wrote “The Making of Zach Galifianakis” for The New York Times Magazine. Wray takes a long look at how the scruffy comedian, who leans more on performance art than old school stand…
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Paul Madonna’s “Small Potatoes” Exhibit, June 12 in San Francisco
Paul Madonna & The Rumpus Celebrate “Small Potatoes” Opening art exhibit of large multi-panel cartoons Ritual Coffee Roasters June 12, 2009 7-9pm For the Ritual Roasters exhibit, Madonna has made a series of large-scale multi-panel cartoons, furthering his comics as…
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Food Party (No, You Will Not Learn How to Cook)
It’s hard to overstate how endearing Thu Tran is. I mean basically when Pee Wee’s playhouse came to end, so did surrealism in TV. But now it’s back, and Thu Tran might be the most adorable person on the planet. …
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Morning Coffee
Whoops — Mattel names new American Girl doll after alleged ‘eco-terrorist.’ A better New York City Transit Map (you’re welcome, New Yorkers). Bookstores worth browsing. Skaters perform tricks. Catch? They don’t use skateboards. Feces + a whodunnit = Whopooped.org (even…
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Morning Coffee
Start your day off right with a little Japanese library design porn. “Man is not to end his days on Earth,” Gyula Kosice’s space architecture is on display in Houston. It took people 60 years to figure out that Raymond…
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Dogfishing
Those of you with long memories may recall the Monkeyfishing hoax of 2001 in Slate. This was a piece by Jay Forman which revealed the existence of a illicit sport on an island of former medical research monkeys in the…
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North of the Border
A group of Mexican teenagers encounters a bizarre America in Luis Alberto Urrea’s latest novel.
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Morning Coffee
It’s Monday, how about a new Rumpus Survey! Looking for the latest in ex-stalking technology? Look no further. Boy chosen by Dalai Lama as a reincarnated guru turns his back on the Tibetian order, bemoans “the misery of a youth…
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Even the Future Has Gone to Shit
Over at TOR, Robert Charles Wilson compares ABC’s new Earth 2100 documentary to Disney’s 1955 program Man in Space in order to trace how our vision of the future has changed. “Earth 2100 … is more dismaying than Man in Space, the way…