“What They Came For Was To Kill Me”
Maybe if I’d participated more when I was a student, I’d have had a well formed outlook about who people really are, and I would have better grasped evil. I…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Way to have the best color in the world, tiny African berry. Maybe you’d like to have a bacteria portrait. Have I linked to this before? I am linking to…
Thanks, The Millions
“As an NYC neophyte, it seemed to me that The Rumpus really does love New York. And from my vantage at the back of the crowd, enjoying some of my…
FUNNY WOMEN #84: An Open Letter to Thomas the Tank Engine
Let me be blunt: you’re a train with human attributes. Who are your parents? From what monstrous act were you conceived?
The Violet Flowers Motel
The Violet Flowers Motel is located in Brantford, Ontario, and is considered by some to be home to drug dealing and prostitution; to others, the motel is the site of…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This week in ephemera: monocle hats, Titanic ads, and the Dunkley Pramotor. In the future airplanes will fly in flocks. Meanwhile, today, grandmothers are giving birth to their own grandchildren.…
Checking In With The Curiosity Rover
Using a camera on its arm, the Curiosity rover took a break from its Mars excursion to snap a self-portrait. Maggie Koerth-Baker documents the picture and explores how time passes…
Notable San Francisco 9/10-9/15
This week in San Francisco! Monday 9/10: Comedy night at El Rio features Diane Amos, Malcolm Grissom, Jill Bourque, Bob McIntyre, and Lisa Geduldig. 8pm, $7. Tuesday 9/11: More funny…
Notable New York: This Week, 9/10-9/16
This week in NYC, it’s not summer anymore: MONDAY 9/10: You already know this, but The Rumpus Loves New York. Stephen Elliott hosts, with authors Sam Lipsyte, Nick Flynn, Amber…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Asking the important questions: why do hurricanes look alike from space? Basket-making and other 19th century British terms for sex. Uh, good news? We can use goats to make breast…
Wolcott Gibbs’ Rules for Editing
Last night I was talking to a friend about how I would run a magazine, assuming I ever happened to do such a thing. I told her I’d probably run…
Saturday Miscellany
I continue to be distressed at the lack of North American access to Parade’s End. Ford Madox Ford is the kind of writer other writers of his day read and interacted…