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“No Mistakes Left to Make” with Jim Shepard
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: “No Mistakes Left to Make” Click Here to Purchase Tickets! May 9th, The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street in San Francisco, 7pm Featuring authors Cheryl Strayed, Dylan Landis, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Jim Shepard! A performance by…
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The Food Stamp Challenge: Eating on Four Dollars a Day
Katie Hoeber is a student at San Francisco State University working on her Masters in Public Health Nursing. As a project for her Community Nursing class, Katie is spending a week living off four dollars a day — the equivalent…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Way to go Republicans, now how are we supposed to detect alien invasions. Liquid font. Department of things-you-can-fill-French-potholes-with: yarn! Wonderful vintage Italian advertisements. (via Aqua-Velvet.) Did you guys know the moon is green sometimes?
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National Poetry Month, Day 28: “Casket Sharp” by Saeed Jones
Casket Sharp Your soft cough becomes prognosis. Soon, cigarette smoke is the inkblot test of the lung.
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Want a Private Life? Don’t Become a Teacher
Judy Buranich teaches English at Midd West High School in Snyder County, Pennsylvania. She’s held that job for 25 years. Judy Mays writes erotic novels. By now, you probably know where this is going. They’re the same person, and some…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Y’all see this Chernobyl street art? The Kingdoms of Science (I live for this stuff). Is it weird to other people that the internet has been around long enough to feel nostalgic about how news sites used to look? (via…
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National Poetry Month, Day 27: “The Accused Terrorist’s Wife” by Shara Lessley
The Accused Terrorist’s Wife The house foreclosed, she’s gone to his father’s home, carting her things, a pair of his shoes, their only daughter, sons. Water springs
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Believing in Science
There’s an awesome Mother Jones article on how we intake our science like lawyers and how our reasoning is inextricably linked to our emotional centers. We’re used to scientific evidence and opinion-based beliefs competing or being on opposite sides of…
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No New Typewriters
Godrej and Boyce, the only company in the world that was still building typewriters, has closed its last plant.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Snow frogs are a thing. FIRE! Bad news: the last typewriter factory in the world just shut down. Worse news: warm oceans create even more CO2 than we’d thought. Good news: there are pictures on the internets.
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National Poetry Month, Day 26: “In the Rafters at Birdie’s Roadhouse” by Alison Pelegrin
In the Rafters at Birdie’s Roadhouse 504 forever. Hillbilly princess. FDNY. For a good time a hard man is good to find. Got nookie? Life is too short for bad moonshine.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #84
WOODY WOODPECKER ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Woody Woodpecker.