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My Bad Memory: New York Movies Edition
From Raging Bull to Newsies, Adam Wilson (mis)remembers the NY movies he’s seen.
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Discovered: Aesop Manuscript
Fine, you caught us: it’s a McSweeney’s thing. In one sense, these mock-Aesop fables show just how untranslatable the morality of antiquity is to the modern, post-Enlightenment subject. In another sense, they’re just plain funny. When the winter came, the…
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FUNNY WOMEN #114: M.A.S.H for Adults
Since you already live in a shack, scratch out “S.” It would be nice to move on to bigger, or at least better, things. But also scratch out “M” — you’re an adult now, and it’s time to adjust your…
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A Heap of Cake
It’s lovely to be wanted, and then it isn’t. You start to wonder what they want you for–the audience, the men. If it’s even about you. If all I am, despite my many professional and artistic roles, is a woman…
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The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium: Interview with Connie Sun
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Tuesday nights from 7 to 9 PM EST in New York City.
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FUNNY WOMEN #113: BUDDHIST NUN PEMA CHÖDRÖN REWRITES THE CLASSICS
If we get him, we get him. If we don’t, we don’t. There are probably other white whales out there.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #206
INSTAGRAM ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Instagram.
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S’up Bros! J-Dog’s Bachelor Party!
Jim Gavin keeps us updated on the sickest bachelor party with the oddest ending ever. Ethan’s bachelor party in Cancun totally WENT OFF, but now we have to take it to another level for J-Dog! In the coming weeks, I’ll…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #202
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Toucan Sam.
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Oops, I’m Sorry
Thank you all for coming here today. It is with a heavy heart that I admit to my colleagues, to my constituents, and to the public, that I did indeed do that thing I was accused of doing. Boy did…
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Sorry, Fellas, You’re Not That Funny
Plenty of people, from Christopher Hitchens to Adam Carolla, have made the assertion that women aren’t funny. You can probably guess that we at the Rumpus disagree, since we have a whole feature devoted to Funny Women (plus we live in…
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Laughably Good Books
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? A Bad Idea I’m About to Do. I Feel Bad About My Neck. The titles of comedy books almost make a good blog post just by themselves. But if you want to learn more…