A Second Class Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
Hermione Lee’s marvelous biography of Virginia Woolf tells us that Woolf applied the same clear-eyed and unstinting analysis to her father, Leslie Stephen, that she did to most of her…
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Luke’s Caveman Link List
There are many theories about how man is separate from the animals. The most recent one is that fire was the difference—not in a Ringo Starr fights the other tribe…
Morning Coffee
2010 is just around the corner, where are my Flying Cars? The New York Times on why they will never happen and why they are right around the corner. Coney…
BAD MOMMY: The Truth About Motherhood! blah, blah, blah
In case you missed it, the other day Oprah did a show about moms “breaking the silence” about motherhood. Moms talked about their secret lives and feelings. They talked about embarrassing…
Morning Coffee
Need a little twee to start your day off right? Kacie Kinzer is sending a tiny cardboard robot across New York. They need your help. Green Apple on cool books…
Morning Coffee
We here at the Rumpus do not speak nor read Russian. We are however, totally terrified and fascinated by this dying merman statue. Republican are a bunch of teabaggers and…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Happy Saturday, everyone. Here’s your poetry fix for the night. The Times Online discovers a link between poetry and Facebook. Guess who else is on Facebook. Part 2 of 4…
Little Brother is Watching Too
When Oscar Grant was shot by BART police in an Oakland station on New Year’s Day, locals found it quite suspicious that the official surveillance cameras weren’t working, so that…
Saturday Morning Links
Okay, all you (us) iPhoniacs out there–who’ll be the first to come up with an App to make sure we become the downloader of the billionth app? Dan Kennedy channels…
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Morning Coffee
1930’s Spanish low-budget Art Deco. Sometimes it’s hard to fight the temptation to turn this whole section into awesome pictures of typeface. Leaked audition tapes for the National Organization for…