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“Why am I giving them to Ariana Huffington?”
Rumpus Editor Stephen Elliott discusses why he started The Rumpus, how the Daily Rumpus emails evolved, and the politics of literary authors in an interview with 12th Street.
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Science Saturday
Are you a dude? Do you use a laptop? Do you love your sperm? Huge bubbles of gamma rays have been discovered coming out of the center of the Milky Way. Taiwanese researchers are trying to turn trees into streetlights…
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Welcome to Saturday
Yesterday, we mentioned the trouble with for-profit education. Now, take a look at the economics of for-profit education. Short version–profits will be down for now. Keith Wilson at We Who Are About to Die makes a very good point about…
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The Eyeball #39: Bros. Quay, Svankmajer, and McLaren
Last week for my Hugo House class on using experimental films as writing prompts we spent 88 glorious minutes with House, the 1977 Japanese haunted pajama party freak-out directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. This week we puzzled ourselves with three stop-motion…
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A Shoe-Seller Speaks
I met Lauren (whose last name we are suppressing here) at a writing workshop in Provincetown almost fifteen years ago. She was shy, funny, brilliant, and very, very talented, and she dressed like one of those kids who had been…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Wandering mind? You are just making yourself depressed. This goes against everything we stand for, but did you hear about Dick Van Dyke’s porpoise rescue? Your days worth of recycled art. Crackpot science gets a little less crackpot. EXPLODING WATER…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here are some old illustrations of cephalopods for you. Tetris is all sorts of good for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. These are things we know. Ben Wilson paints gum on the street, which is a cool thing to do I think.…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This artist, Ben Wilson, paints great “miniature pictures on pieces of discarded chewing gum.” “The Earliest War Photography From Afghanistan” taken during the late 1800s. These pop-up books are totally nutso. Peep at them! The internet has so much good…
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Protecting the “Least Among Us”
“I asked Wolfgang how long addicts typically had to wait for admission to his clinic. He didn’t understand my question, so I asked again. As I was about to ask a third time, it dawned on me the confusion wasn’t…
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Trigger-Happy SoCal
Dear Southern California, Let’s take it down a notch or two, shall we? I mean, a mysterious missile launch? Come on now. PS-Even the Pentagon “has no idea who launched the missile.”
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This is fun. Is life about having fun? Spot the fake smile. This website of — I guess — design-inspiration makes for a fun scroll through. An Ambitious Project Collapsing. Isaac Fitzgerald, of The Rumpus, sent me this tumblr of…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #60
MY EX PET TURTLE ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my ex pet turtle.