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Saturday Morning Links
This gets my vote as headline of the week. And it might be good advice if you’re looking to boost voter turnout. Maybe we could offer these as premiums. Are you a naturally-born woman between 18-27, a registered voter, never…
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GENERATION GAP #6: An Advice Columnist Asks For Advice
Although we all talked about keeping in touch, we knew it was really a goodbye dinner.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Please don’t hate me. Sometimes I just want to link to pictures of utensils. Silver! On the Moon! Illustrating Finnegan’s Wake. I wish I knew more about Germany so I could make a clever joke about this upside-down house. But,…
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The Eyeball #36: BRAKHAGE!!!
I taught another session of my Experimental Films as Writing Prompts class at Hugo House last night. This one we looked at some films by Stan Brakhage. At the outset of the class I admitted that I had no idea…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
“In fact, most of the life on the planet is probably composed of bacteria.” Let’s take a look at street artist JR (winner of this year’s TED prize), shall we? Eventually I’m sure things today will seem this charming. Manga…
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Help a Poet Help Homeless Youth
Rumpus friend and poet extraordinaire D. A. Powell is encouraging his twitter followers to give money to Larkin Street Youth, a support organization for homeless youth in San Francisco. For every donation made, Powell will donate $50 until he reaches…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today in famous dead people’s handwriting: Isaac Newton’s annotates himself. Africa is very large. Designing robots to fail. Hey, watch this bridge get taken apart. On the ramifications of turtle bones in Antarctica.
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FUNNY WOMEN #35: A Southern Mad Lib
Insert your own words in the spaces below to make a wacky story!
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Notable New York, This Week 10/19 – 10/24
This week in New York Judah Friedlander does Karate, Ian Frazier joins the FDG Reading Series, The Word Made Flesh celebrates in Brooklyn, James Franco takes a stab at writing, Rick Moody battles, Amy Sedaris is The Sound of Young…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today is a good day because of this unearthed Dr Seuss manuscript. (via GerryCanavan.) There are certain things I feel an obligation to post, these include but are not limited to posts on Hungarian underground railway stations and library storage…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #57
MY COUCH ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my couch.