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The Believer has posted “Barry Hannah [Writer] in Conversation with Wells Tower [Writer]” in its entirety. Happy holidays indeed.

The NY Times wants to discuss the history of space suits with you. Continuing a theme of sorts: Chinese ghost cities. The wonderful world of one star Amazon book reviews. Long story short, there used to be hella human species.…

The Rumpus Proudly Presents: “Warm Bodies, Cold Nights” January 10th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS Featuring authors Derrick Brown, Bucky Sinister, Andrew Nelson, Peter Orner, and Amber Tamblyn! A performance by Abe…

Everyone likes a good vintage Christmas ad, am I right? Michael Wolf takes pictures of crowded Japanese commuter trains. Behold the unicow! Have you checked out Google Body Browser yet? I am pretty sure Google is slowly taking over the…

“THERE is a God! It passed! The Bush tax cuts have been extended two years for the upper bracketeers, of which I am a proud member, thank you very much.” Larry David takes to the NYT opinion pages to say…

“So next time someone tells me they believe in God, I’ll say ‘Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?…’ If they say ‘Just God. I only believe in the one God,’ I’ll point out that…

BROOKSTONE ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Brookstone.

Here are some things I am interested in today. Dinosaur diets. Hungarian zoo redesign. Brains and musical improvisation. The Parisian Metro. Vocoders.

Dearest Readers, Contributors, Hopeful Contributors, and Men, The Funny Women column is going away to the Sugar Shack until 2011. While you are welcome and encouraged to send submissions to funnywomen AT therumpus.net, please note I’m embarrassingly behind on reading…

“One thing many PhD students have in common is dissatisfaction.” The Economist argues that “doing a PhD is often a waste of time.” (via TheMillions)

We’re talking about a god damned Great Lakes Christmas miracle (or something)! Meanwhile, still in the Daily Mall, behold the Chinese tiger dog. 1789 Plan of NYC. These are the things that I enjoy. A little tree architecture porn for…

In the spirit of holiday and family, please enjoy our festive, sad, and maybe even twisted selection of Rumpus readers’ takes on the season. Edited by Susan Clements.