missed connections
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Missed Connection: White Teeth
Scenario: you are on the train, you are sitting across from a man in a baseball cap reading, say, White Teeth, and in a matter of seconds you’ve visualized an entire literary life with him (the next stop, he gets…
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Readers Report: Missed Connections
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Missed Connections.”
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Best Craigslist Missed Connection Ever—No, Seriously
A Twitter follower tipped us off to this Craigslist missed connection to end all Craigslist missed connections: My stop was Union Square, but at Union Square I decided to stay on, rationalizing that I could just as easily transfer to…
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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.
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Chased By Bees – m4w – 45
Every Sunday, James the Stanton of Gnartoons posts an episode of Missed Connection Comix at San Francisco blog Uptown Almanac. The strip takes missed connection posts from Craigslist—the guy who fancied a girl at his CPR class, the woman looking…
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Missed Connections: The Rumpus Interview with Sophie Blackall
“Odd things happen in New York, which is why it’s such a great source of stories. Once I read a Missed Connection which took place on a train…”
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Book Cover Missed Connections
“Such encounters are becoming increasingly difficult. With a growing number of people turning to Kindles and other electronic readers, and with the Apple iPad arriving on Saturday, it is not always possible to see what others are reading or to…