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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Rumpus buddy Will Schofield (of A Journey Around My Skull) will be updating weekly at But Does It Float. Here he is his first. Moonlight Sonata reverberating through milk. That’s DOCTOR kitty to you. Update: nature is still crazy. No,…
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Readers Report Back From… Impossible Love
Rumpus readers take on Impossible Love. Edited by Susan Clements. The woman never forgot her body had once been covered in tiny holes. She’d been born with them all over. They were practically undetectable and no one ever got close…
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Fetishizing Ruins
“So much ruin photography and ruin film aestheticizes poverty without inquiring of its origins, dramatizes spaces but never seeks out the people that inhabit and transform them, and romanticizes isolated acts of resistance without acknowledging the massive political and social…
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Long Live Hobos
In Santa Cruz, I had occasion to meet some hobos. Real or fake hobos: it was hard to make the distinction in a town so enshrined to the misfit ideal. There was a train bridge near the roller-coaster that you…
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Chats with Random Men #13: Kleber Returns
Singer Alina Simone chats with random men on her Facebook page — here she welcomes back an old “friend” in this midnight chat with Kleber:
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today is another day, which is pretty cool you know? Flavorwire guides you through MOMA’s new digital font collection. Here are a bunch of pictures from a 1950s sci-fi movie about moon travel that are great and so you should…
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Rate of Loss
“For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
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“LaVena Johnson to Sarah Palin,” A Rumpus Original Poem
In Iraq, in the summer of 2005, 19 year old US Army Private LaVena Johnson was found dead and mutilated in a tent belonging to military contractors KBR. The Army, to this day, asserts that her injuries were self inflicted,…
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Chen Sah: Suicide Stopper
Meet Chen Sah, “an odd and unlikely angel” who does his best to deter those attempting to throw themselves off the Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing, China. (via MeFi)
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What’s Happening in Egypt, updated
The Twitter hashtag #Jan25 is still hopping. It can be difficult to filter out some of the noise, but it’s a way to get some real time information on what’s happening. The Egyptian government had blocked Twitter, but local activists…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Update: No there won’t be two suns next year (probably). Genghis Kahn, ruthless conqueror for the Earth’s good. ‘Sup gas cloud birds? I know you’ve been wondering when I would put up a list to tons of Dutch book covers.…