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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is hard to beat flight pattern photography sometimes. Mondo-Bloggo has kindly reprinted the entirety of their recent post on 1950s college kids flying kites, and we are all better for it. Novelty architecture happens from time to time. Incidentally,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The first new carnivorous mammal in more than two decades was just discovered. Just so you know. Hey, check out Walter Green’s schema for the Believer! The internet is awash with rad vintage product design. Turn of the century french…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 10/11-10/17
This week in San Francisco, Twitter IRL, SOMArts asks How Do You Value Art?, more art at Hotel Biron, and even more art (and readings!) at Sub-Mission’s Skate This Art. Monday 10/11: Celebrate your inner nerd at the Commonwealth Club’s…
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Notable New York, This Week 10/11 – 10/17
This week in New York David Grossman translates with Paul Auster, Justin Taylor and Eva Tamladge exhibit tattoos for the literary inclined, Tao Lin reads, Guernica celebrates, Bill Bryson is Private, Rick Moody joins the Sunday Salon, Catfish is the…
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Dan Weiss’ Morning Coffee
Start your week off right with some toxic Hungarian sludge. Lapham’s Quarterly on floating cities, real and imagined. Concrete canvas is totally amazing. Vintage coffee tins! Hurray! Um, have you read about Googles robot car yet?
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Jonathan Farmer has some ideas on ways people can support poetry in the digital age. I really support his fifth one, which suggests getting web designers and programmers involved in the world of online poetry, because formatting a poem with…
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Do You Have Answers For This Teacher?
I could have linked to this in Poetic Lives Online, but I feel inspired by the Chaka Khan playing in the background to open it up to the Saturday crown. (Don’t ask me what I mean by that.) So a…
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Science Saturday
Fascinating presentation by Hans Rosling about how the world is winning the war on child mortality. Is water more common on asteroids than originally thought? Remember that story about the bees disappearing? There’s an answer. Drinking at the pub can…
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More MFA Talk
To be perfectly honest, I’d probably have ignored this piece by Seth Abramson about the top 25 Underrated Creative Writing programs if my partner Amy and several Facebook friends hadn’t pointed it out to me for this entry: “Florida Atlantic…
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Welcome to Saturday
So we’re into the baseball post-season now, and most of the Rumpus folk live in a city with a team still involved. Last game I attended in San Francisco, Barry Bonds hit his 700th home run, so I guess I’ve…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I am endlessly fascinated by these amazing pictures of Dubai. Almost certainly the most whimsical Japanese bank I’ve seen today. I don’t usually like links in other languages, but there are some pretty amazing old Brazilian buildings here. Look at…