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Posts Tagged: Bender

“Throw Something Down Hard Enough, You Discover Its Laws”

By Weston Cutter

March 1st, 2016

Maybe my faith that the profoundest feeling we’re offered by art that really hits us deep in is a setting free, a series of screens or horizons obliterated somehow lovingly.

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Tags: Adam Plunkett, Bender, Bob Hicok, Charles Wright, Coming into the Country, Copper Canyon, Dean Young, driving, Fall Higher, fatherhood, First Course in Turbulence, Jennifer Boyden, Jericho Brown, John McPhee, Jolie Holland, Jorie Graham, Matt Hart, Maureen McLane, McPhee, Olena Kalytiak Davis, parenting, Paul Westerberg, poetry, Run The Jewels, surrealism, tarantino, Terrance Hayes, Weston Cutter

The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Taking Comfort in Futurama

By Katie Anderson Howell

November 7th, 2015

I’m a comfort watcher… I retreat into the worlds I know well, with characters that are friends, with outcomes I already understand.

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Tags: 20th century, abortion, absurdity, academia, adjunct, adjuncts, amazon, anti-choice, Bender, binge-watching, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, children, college, comfort TV, dvds, Fry, Futurama, Katie Anderson Howell, Leela, motherhood, Netflix, New New York, Nibbler, Planet Eternium, Planet Express, postpartum depression, ppd, pro-choice, teaching, television, the future, TV, university, writing, Yellow Wallpaper, Zoidberg

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