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I Follow Dead People
Know who’s now on Twitter? Arthur Miller, Sylvia Plath, the BFG, and even Behemoth, the black cat from The Master and Margarita. It’s all a part of Reorbit, a “reanimation of historical and literary figures.” The full list of characters…
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Throw Me Something, Mister: Mardi Gras Dispatch #2
Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011: “Y’all ready?” I ask the cops, clustered near the corner of Napoleon and St Charles. “Been ready,” one shoots right back at me. “Just ready to get it done.”…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s all just take a moment to look at buildings in the puddles of New York. These are things people spend money on: a $350 hundred year old stick of gum. Alternatively you could just buy these Dali tarot cards.…
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Throw Me Something, Mister:
Mardi Gras Dispatch #1Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011: This is how it begins: with a lot of standing around. Some of us are drunk. Some of us are getting there, some of us are dead sober, but…
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Virginal Super Soldiers
Why aren’t more people talking about Ghaddafi’s elite team of virginal super soldiers? We all knew Ghaddafi was a megalomanaical and evil dictator with a flair for fashion. But who knew he could combine all his interests in one stroke…
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Organized Labor Today
These poll results are a couple of days old, but given the trend over the last two weeks, I think it’s fair to suggest they’re still accurate. Majorities favor collective bargaining rights, and oppose cutting either salaries or benefits to…
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“Campbell McGrath” a Rumpus Original Poem by Nick Demske
Campbell Mcgrath I’ll campbell mcgrath your fucking buttsack you little bitch. Campbell mcgrath.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What are you heartless? The loneliest whale in all the world. Competition Competition just picked out the best losing architecture proposals of 2010. Can we all agree that “Thunder Thighs” is the best name of any group of things ever?…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here is a thing: evil people living in modernist homes in popular films. Time marches along and before you know it there are no more WWI vets. NASA gets ready to crush a giant god damned can. Electric vehicles successfully…
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An Oral History of Myself #13: Mato
I went to a Catholic school. I was a shy kid and got beat up by girls. I would express myself through drawings; that’s how I made friends. So when I transferred to the public school in fifth grade I…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #76
WILSON, THE JEOPARDY! ROBOT ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Wilson, the Jeopardy! robot.
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Notable New York, This Week 2/28-3/06
This week in New York the 92nd Street Y focuses on “Literature and Revolution in the Middle East,” readings from Granta and Flatmancrooked, the Third Annual Chapbook Festival, Kevin Young reads from his new collection, and First Saturday at the…