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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Life, uh, finds a way; bacterium thrives in spacecraft cleanrooms. It’s been way too long since I’ve linked to a 50 Watts post. The Guardian looks at the awful political beliefs of great artists. Obviously the time has come to…
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The Changing Face of Sex Work
A University of Chicago survey found that fewer men are paying for sex—or did it? In an interview with Slate‘s Amanda Hess, Post Whore America blogger Melissa Gira Grant takes a second look at the survey results and challenges the idea…
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The Pot Thrower: Notes on the Death of a Brother
If Charlie had finally lost his focus after all these years, well, no wonder. I’d have lost it after about fifteen minutes wrestling with CF. We had to help him find his resolve again and get back his health, not…
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Isaac is Buzzfeed’s First Books Editor
Brace yourself, San Francisco. Former Rumpus managing editor and current Rumpus co-owner Isaac Fitzgerald is moving to New York City to become BuzzFeed’s first books editor. What will this new books section look like? He foresees a section built on “shareable content” and…
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Terror in Mennonite Bolivia
In an extraordinarily disturbing Vice article, Jean Friedman-Rudovsky describes an ultra-conservative Mennonite colony in Bolivia in which a horrifying series of rapes occurred (and may still be occurring): a group of men used aerosol cow tranquilizers to incapacitate entire households and then…
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Modern Art in Nazi Germany
This BBC story goes into fascinating detail about the way the degenerate art was displayed alongside insulting graffiti, and, of course, what role Hitler’s youthful art education played in all this. (Via.) In 1937, the Nazi regime staged two simultaneous art…
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Choosing to Look
Cris Mazza, author of nineteen books– including the soon-to-be-released Something Wrong with Her— writes about gender relations, sexuality, and society’s distorted perceptions of value. By her own assessment, Mazza has written herself into the question of whether skewed perceptions of…
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Den Bechdel Testet
You may have heard of the Bechdel test, named after cartoonist Alison Bechdel, who popularized it in one of her comics: A movie or book passes the test if it contains a) at least two female characters, who b) talk…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hold the phone there, giant prehistoric platypus. It is a very bad time to be a rhino. But like, do dolphins actually like us? This has nothing to do with animals: more abandoned toy stores and factories, more more. And…
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Fantasy Football For Poets: Week Ten
That day, Jonathan was the last one, and this time, the ritual made the young second-year player snap. He threw his cafeteria tray to the ground, left team facilities, and has never returned..
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The 15th Anniversary of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern
Getting sentimental about the fifteenth anniversary of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern? So are we. Check out the commemorative, The Best of McSweeney’s, a collection of the publisher’s best and brightest writing since 1998. Can’t wait? Go here to see an excerpt…
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Eliot’s “Prufrock” Gets Comic Book Makeover
Let us go then, you and I… Montreal illustrator Julian Peters has just released the first nine-pages of his comic-book adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s classic poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” The poem, one of the canonical works…