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An Essay Not to Miss
“The esteemed Steve Almond delivers the best take – and best-written essay – I’ve seen on the Giffords shooting.” David Sirota praises Steve Almond’s “Surely Some Revelation Is at Hand.” (via TruthDig, who also gave Steve’s essay love. Thanks TruthDig!)
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Don’t tell anyone but I’m totally in San Diego right now. Perhaps you would be interested in some origami today. Magma rain is the most extreme of all rains. Some thoughts on desert architecture. Floriated Ornament.
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Suppose I Kept on Singing Love Songs Just to Break My Own Fall
I don’t remember what I was doing when my aunt called to tell me my father was dying.
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The Rumpus Proudly Presents: “Warm Bodies, Cold Nights”
Live in the Bay Area? Don’t miss “Warm Bodies, Cold Nights,” tonight (!) at The Make-Out Room (3225 22nd Street), 7pm. Featuring: Award-winning actress Amber Tamblyn, who recently published her second book of poetry and prose Bang Ditto.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #69
DANCING WITH THE STARS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Dancing with the Stars.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I just love photographs of abandoned places so much, you know? This is an article about fighting pirates with lazers. 2011 is awesome. Pavel Filonov is your Russian avant-garde artist of the day. (via Journey Around My Skull.) The dinosaur…
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Wanna Write Right On Top Of The Internet?
Ever get so frustrated with the Internet that you wanna just take a pen and write right on top of the screen? Well, that happened to me so many times that I decided to start a website where people do…
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GChat, the Modern Diary
I do some of my best writing in GChat. It’s my most used method of communicating. I have a smartphone so I can GChat from it, making phone calls is secondary. I tell funny stories on GChat, play therapist, vent,…
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What Happens to Your Online Presence After Your Death?
“This has inspired a variety of entrepreneurs to place bets that, eventually, people will want control over the afterlife of their digital selves. Several promise to manage the details of your digital death — storing your passwords and your wishes…
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Recycle Your Books!
“Most paper recyclers can’t process the glue that binds books along the spine. Some people donate them, of course, or try to resell them, but so many books wind up in boxes on the curb, and eventually, in landfills…Thrift Recycling…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Short one tonight–I just don’t have the will to look for poetry stories given what’s gone down today in Arizona. So think of this more as an announcements post. The book for this month’s Rumpus Poetry Book Club is A…
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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Shot in Arizona
The media hasn’t covered itself in glory on this story so far–there have been conflicting reports from the beginning, which one can expect in any developing situation. As of now, while I’m writing this post, Giffords is in surgery. There’s…