YES and we have an amazing entry today feat. @swordsjew.bsky.social, Jack Pendarvis, and Misha Angrist Anchors aweigh!! flaminghydra.com/issue-471/

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TODAY: MOBY DICK WEEK CONTINUES! @swordsjew.bsky.social and Jack Pendarvis discuss their heroic, unending Moby Dick studies. “There’s an entire chapter that’s just the third mate reciting a dream he had to the fourth mate about Ahab kicking him with his peg leg.” flaminghydra.com/r/00aafa2f?m...

MOBY DICK WEEK IS UPON US @flaminghydra.com

I wrote about reading Moby Dick aloud to a baby during the sad, hot summer of 2020.

Tune in to @flaminghydra.com all week for more holiday Moby Dick content thanks to stalwart comrades @swordsjew.bsky.social and @mariabustillos.com

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Welcome aboard MOBY-DICK WEEK at @flaminghydra.com, debuting with @benehrenreich.bsky.social reading aloud. flaminghydra.com/issue-470/

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TODAY: MOBY DICK WEEK BEGINS! with @benehrenreich.bsky.social. “I hoped that something of it would seep into her eager, fast-growing brain even if she didn’t understand or remember it, not the plot or any details, but something of Melville’s hunger for the world” flaminghydra.com/r/f7698fd3?m...

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Hit that subscribe button because WOW. Truly. An instant classic from @josie.zone, I will be reading it forever To say nothing of what is coming next week to @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/subscribe

I love @davidjroth.bsky.social's writing for a lot of reasons but one of the main ones is, he loves the world. There's nothing rarefied about his intellect, his humor, his humanity. Just makes me want to keep on living basically. Here he is on Hallmark movies flaminghydra.com/issue-468/#h...

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TODAY: a new comic about modernity itself from Trevor Alixopulos. flaminghydra.com/r/c6ce1511?m...

Need a last-minute gift? How about a subscription to @flaminghydra.com, a daily newsletter created by a collective of writers and artists? Here's my latest article for them, on the movies authoritarians love -- and what we can learn from them. flaminghydra.com/issue-465/#m...

My @flaminghydra.com essay on THE BELIEVER (2001) and Jewish skinheads:

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My @flaminghydra.com essay on Harvard, Pink Floyd, and the immature allure of fascism:

Flaming Hydra has graciously given this out for free! For any Spider-Man fans and comic book historians, here’s a closer look at the story behind Mary Jane Watson’s iconic introduction, and who REALLY wrote it. Thanks to Josephine Riesman & Zach Rabiroff for this. flaminghydra.com/a-swingin-su...

I wrote about my Hallmark habit, and trying to be normal at parties when you know more than is normal about Lacey Chabert's filmography. (The movie where Wallace Shawn plays an angel is called Christmas At Carwright's.) (A guy grandly says "Christmas Nog!" in it.) flaminghydra.com/issue-468/#h...

Watching holiday films with @davidjroth.bsky.social today at @flaminghydra.com wow! he is a good writer. flaminghydra.com/issue-468/#h...

TODAY: @zachrabiroff.com has had quite a week. “So to recap: by midday Wednesday I was unemployed, with no source of income, and a left eye that, while eventually openable, had the unfortunate disadvantage of not being able to see.” flaminghydra.com/r/6a0fce4b?m...

This Christmas, I lost my job, lost my sight, and had some thoughts about Napoleon. A new essay for @flaminghydra.com called "Blind Spots." flaminghydra.com/issue-468/

We're saying Merry "Christmas" again at @flaminghydra.com. And we're saying it, excuse me, with gusto.

somebody said to me the other day that they felt fiction never addressed anything contemporary so I have ten tries here.

TODAY: New short fiction from @samthielman.com. “The company’s first piece, which takes the form of an orphaned Yemeni child wholly owned by the bearer of a complex e-token, was sold to a Chelsea gallerist in a sealed bid auction by Sotheby’s” flaminghydra.com/r/bf9ba817?m...

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The opening passage of a @flaminghydra.com piece, published a few days after our most recent presidential inauguration, eleven months ago, continues to feel relatable. So... I guess we're still hanging in there! flaminghydra.com/the-end-and-...

Are you a @flaminghydra.com subscriber, if so please remember to VOTE in Hydranym No. 29, the absurd acronym game with creative writing features!!! some great ones this time. flaminghydra.com/hydranym-no-...

This essay about FAFSA somehow hoots so many notes about parenting, anxiety about debt and the future, computer systems that are defective by design, all wrapped up in one. And The Phantom Thread. Love @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/fafsa-is-bre...

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Cheered up considerably by reading @annamerlan.bsky.social's wondrous account of a visit to the Titanic Museum Experience in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee at @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/discomfort-s...

The magic of @annamerlan.bsky.social: you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll marvel at her ability to draw profound sociopolitical and aesthetic insights from a heart-shaped purple-sequinned souvenir pillow

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Every day Flaming Hydra is good, don’t get me wrong. But every month or so there’s a piece that by itself justifies the cost.

For @flaminghydra.com, I wrote briefly about the most incredible (??) and certainly the most semiotically rich gift shop I've ever seen in my life: flaminghydra.com/discomfort-s...

Tonight! @annamerlan.bsky.social boards the Titanic for Flaming Hydra. Plus: The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center presents a [redacted] edition of NEWS ON FIRE.

I love that it’s in Pigeon Forge. A place that’s like if Banff was invaded by Las Vegas. Perfect.

A new reason to read @flaminghydra.com is the "News on Fire" that now runs beneath the day's great writing. So once you've read @annamerlan.bsky.social's Titanic Museum dispatch you get microtakes on news of the day from @parkermolloy.com, @zachrabiroff.com and me flaminghydra.com/discomfort-s...

TODAY: @annamerlan.bsky.social embarks on an extraordinary voyage (of shopping). "I envisioned a Halloween costume in which I would wear just that and a bedsheet, but ultimately and with great difficulty got ahold of myself." flaminghydra.com/discomfort-s...

If you are near Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, maybe you can use these mind-boggling shopping tips from @annamerlan.bsky.social flaminghydra.com/discomfort-s...

Are you yelling at a BEAR who has mastered the miracle of HUMAN SPEECH

This is a terrific piece about dictators, directors, and movie madness, via @annaleen.bsky.social in @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-465/

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Rewarding to reread @josie.zone's insightful analysis of Elise Stefanik's political motivations in this awesome essay about the perils of Harvard, and also Pink Floyd and Nazis, it is extremely great (free to read; subscribe to @flaminghydra.com if you love it) flaminghydra.com/mother-shoul...

What connects Donald Trump, Kim Jong-Il, and Adolf Hitler? You guessed it: a love of cheesy blockbuster movies. In my latest for @flaminghydra.com, I explain why.

TODAY: A special guest post from the Holiday Bear. "I am a bear and I don't understand money" flaminghydra.com/a-message-fr...

This sounds like . . . at least one movie in recent memory. And I *just* read this article today - check it out at @flaminghydra.com

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