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Here’s Who You Hit Up For a Beer
The NEA has announced their creative writing fellows in creative writing for 2010-2011. Among the winners are some people whose work we’ve featured here at The Rumpus: Jericho Brown (also here and here), Anna Journey (also here), and Alexandra Teague.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Continuing a theme: I like these things too. Secret Indian chambers. Aquarium architecture. 3D skull renderings. Map-based infographics. The solar sail.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #62
ANDY ROONEY ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Andy Rooney.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here are some things I am thankful for. Information about dinosaur’s relationships with their babies. Award winning French bookstore porn. Hulk Hogan’s Pastamania. Lost female scientists. Lots and lots of cats.
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Underwater Sculpture
Meet Jason de Caires Taylor. He creates life-sized cement sculptures of people in various poses and then sinks them into the waters of South America, where they become part of the ecology, serving as bases for coral reefs and all…
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Bring On the Robot Cars
When I lived in San Francisco, I didn’t own a car. My partner did, a compact pickup, and we used it when we wanted to get out of the city or when we needed to haul something, but for the…
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Science Saturday
It still amazes me that scientists can even find planets in other systems, but to figure out that this one was once part of another galaxy is incredible . Scientists at CERN have trapped antimatter. What did NASA discover when…
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Saturday Morning Links
If my life is ever made into a movie, I want it aired on SyFy, & I want some sort of combination animal involved, like a sharktopus, only cooler. And I should be a cyborg. Christopher Hayes reviews Ralph Nader’s…
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The Rumpus and Flavorpill Present: “Ladies Night”
Celebrating the release of The Rumpus Women Volume I! CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS! December 13th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm. Featuring authors Kathleen Alcott, Julie Greicius, Antonia Crane, Sarah Fran Wisby, and Michelle Tea! A presentation…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s a Friday and who doesn’t love little people street art? My forefathers come from the land of terrible teeth it turns out. Did you know the World Fencing Championship just happened? The Big Picture did! Keepin’ it classy: Beardsley’s…