An Oral History of Myself #3: Dan
In 2005 I began interviewing people I grew up with. Because I left home at thirteen and spent four years in group homes, my social network was significantly wider than…
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Morning Coffee
Passive-aggressive notes. Bird’s eye view photography is pretty rad. Jason Hawkes has figured this out. The Big Picture has figured out that Jason Hawkes has figured this out. Dinosaur comics.…
The Rumpus Book Blog Roundup
Good news! The book blogs can tell the future, and it is only a little bit terrifying! The future, apparently, is full of digibooks, Twitter, book pirates, and “video poetry.”…
The Rumpus Interview with Carlos Cuarón
During an assembly-line interview process last week, I sat with writer and director Carlos Cuarón to talk about his new film, Rudo y Cursi. We met up at a self-described…
Work, Change, Pride
Having to face the strain and fill time in between jobs has, for many, become a matter of survival. On this topic, Charles Darwin had this to say, “It is…
The First 110 Days
We sort of skipped past President Obama’s first 100 days last week due to the looming horror of the dreaded SWINE FLU EPIDEMIC, which now looks about as lethal as…
Morning Coffee
The controversial hobbit-like Homo Floresiensis were a seperate species after all. And thus the world is a little more magical. My Home Birth: A Graphic Memoir from SMITHMAG. Made of…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
It’s a somber weekend, for obvious reasons, but there’s a lot going on in the poetry world, and I’m here to give it to you. Derek Wolcott’s past rears its…
An Essay on Criticism–The Sequel
Normally I would save a link like this for my Poetic Lives Online column later tonight, but this deserves a story all its own. Geoff Nunberg of Language Log is…
Rediscovering the Forgotten
The drive to digitize ancient manuscripts is growing quickly, and in the process, scholars are discovering works they never realized they had. The current technology is good enough that scholars…
The Language of the Beard
As one who determined five years ago, after having shaved my beard off to remind myself what the natural contours of my face looked like, to never go without facial…