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Science Saturday
Most of the space news this week has surrounded Gliese 581G, the first planet found to reside in the so-called “Goldilocks zone.” But we have a much closer visitor in the night sky, Comet Hartley 2, which will be visible…
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Join in the Fun
I tweeted yesterday that I don’t know which article I’m more tired of reading–the e-book versus paper book article or the MFA versus the non-MFA article. But I’ve been pleased by (and sucked into) the comment thread that sprung up…
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Saturday Morning Links
In south Florida, all conversations eventually turn to traffic and bad drivers. In the past, everyone blamed the elderly. Now we blame mobile phones, but I think the truth is that human beings are just too easily distracted to be…
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The Weekly Book Club Round-Up
Lan Samantha Chang‘s novel All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost appeared in the New York Times Book Review, making her and Tao Lin the 3rd and 4th Rumpus Book Club authors we’ve chosen who’s also been reviewed by New York’s…
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Really, We Just Wanted to Say “Federal Copy Editors”
New York City’s street sign are getting a makeover: “Federal copy editors are demanding the city change its 250,900 street signs — such as these for Perry Avenue in The Bronx — from the all-caps style used for more than…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Is the stegosaurus in trouble too? (which reminds me, have talked about the “bone wars” recently?) Oh hey, probably habitable other planet, sup? Space station technology brings you the hip trailer of tomorrow (today). And most importantly, a look at…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It sure is hot today. I am entirely in love with this Argentinian trailer house. Anthropological surf photography. Thrilling SWAT action from the great white north. Fun fact: Germany is almost done paying for WWI! Look, I am willing to…
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But is he handsome enough?
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott and James Franco share space in the New York Observer. Related, Perez Hilton calls Stephen Elliott “mildly insane.”
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Vince Neil Meets Josh in a Chinese Restaurant in Malibu (After Ezra Pound)” by Josh Bell
Turns out, Josh Bell wrote a poem about me. In the poem, I’m eating in a Chinese restaurant when Vince Neil walks in, and my name is “Josh” (it’s cool). I remember exactly when I stumbled on this poem –…
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Nicole Walker in Rumpus Original Poems
We have a surprise for you at the end of Sean Singer’s review of Nicole Walker’s This Noisy Egg, a link to a new poem from Walker. It’s called “Call the Clock” and you should really check it out.
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“Call the Clock,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Nicole Walker
Call the Clock I was a little envious. I’d only ever had one and he— cat o’ hearts—he had nine. He traded them in every time they got broken.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
New developments on the science of heartbreak. (via @rosieate.) Movie trailers as stand-alone pieces of art. Keeping this theme going all week long: designer animal houses. Today’s relevant wikipedia entry (via Gerry CAnavan): Inventors killed by their inventions. Ending on…