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  • Steaming Mug

    So a decade ago, hack advertisers needed to make everything cyber-this and i-that.  Fifty years ago, everyone was selling a Space-whatsit, and a hundred years ago it was all radium-whatever.  Radium Razor Blades! (I’m serious.) But let’s say it’s 1848: now…

  • Meta: A Rumpus Editor Ponders The Fate of The Rumpus

    I’m not exactly an insider here at The Rumpus. I’m not really an outsider either. I’m the Sunday editor.

  • Why I Studied The Humanities

    “Studying the humanities improves your ability to read and write. No matter what you do in life, you will have a huge advantage if you can read a paragraph and discern its meaning (a rarer talent than you might suppose)……

  • Morning Coffee

    A visual history of tourism ads. The Ghost Orchid has risen from the dead. And as long as we’re on the subject: the Pompeii fast food establishment Thermopolium is set to reopen. Free public light for all! (woo!) I would…

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