Where Bunny Rabbits Meet Black Flag
Hot tip from Xeni Jardin: the Bay Area Film Society is screening Farmcore tomorrow at New Nothing Cinema in San Francisco. Farmcore is a documentary about the Farm, a San Francisco…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Don’t worry, it is ok to eat Alligator on Lenten Fridays. Disney’s Our Friend the Atom (is neat to look at). The future will be filled with 3D-printing pens and…
Keep Doubt Alive with Essays
If you’re a regular Rumpus reader, you probably like essays. And if you like essays, you’ll probably enjoy this New York Times opinion piece about their literary and social value: Ever…
“How Do We Become More Than What’s Sold to Us?”
I imagined the sour-faced exec watching the video of our conversation and asking the teens why he paid for a bunch of queers to talk about Andy Warhol, and I…
FUNNY WOMEN #94: An Actual Missed Connection
This is a missed connection, and as such I am very sorry that our connection was missed, or maybe I’m not, I don’t know, because I’ve never met you.
What They’re Reading When They’re Not Playing Video Games
Teenagers aren’t exactly renowned for pouring out their feelings to the adults in their lives. “It makes me think that this is why The Catcher in the Rye is a…
A Newer, Cuter Approach to Cover Design
Maybe you can’t judge a book by its cover, but you can sure try. At 22 Words, a six-year-old tries to suss out the plots of classic novels by looking…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Wait, so DO bears hibernate? Everyone loves Charley Harper. This is a fact. Serene Chinese landfills. And now some 1960’s French card game design. The sad case of George Spencer:…
Double Birthday Time!
Happy birthday to Toni Morrison (who turns 82) and Audre Lorde (who would have turned 79)! It’s hard to overstate the importance of their fight to make the voices of…
Biting the Hand That Stamps Your Library Book
Last week, British children’s author Terry Deary (famous for his Horrible Histories series) declared that public libraries are unnecessary relics of a past age; they cheat authors of their rightful…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Here’s what happened on The Rumpus this weekend: We welcome our newest comics contributor, Yumi Sakugawa! She’s been doing Saturday Rumpus comics for several weeks, but now they’re officially part…
Notable New York: 02/18-02/24
This week in NYC: MONDAY 02/18: The Poetry Project celebrates Alfred Starr Hamilton and the release of A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Selected Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton…