The school across the street used to do little kid summer camp outside but now they can't, because the sky's all fucked-up from doing Business; you used to be able to do lots of stuff but now you can't, they said your food was going to cost this much forever and you bought it anyway but now you cant

Challenge accepted ('really good' tbd) flaminghydra.com/issue-594/

This is great

Wrote about the little thrill of getting the job done flaminghydra.com/men-at-work/

Flaming Hydra is one of the truly great, special things on the internet. Here's an entry I loved from a couple weeks ago flaminghydra.com/issue-570/

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I've seen Marc Andreessen with a beard; with no beard; chubby with a lordly pride; chubby and ashamed; slimmed down suddenly via medicine and drowning in his old clothes; at "innovation conferences" straining for gravitas, and no matter what he simply cannot stop having a head that looks like that.

Brown University cut a deal with the Trump administration in July, adopting a slate of anti-DEI policies—and agreeing to send student data to the government—in exchange for funding. I talked to students, faculty, and alumni who argue it was a capitulation and expressed fear. At @flaminghydra.com

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The app itself is junk (search bar often just disappears from the interface; movies crash halfway through) but there's something called "Movie Vault" on Roku and the Crime section on there is just loaded with free/no-ads 60s/70s classics, grimy noir stuff, long-ass cars and disgraced detectives.

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Wrote about Harry Dean Stanton for The Small Bow www.thesmallbow.com/p/it-was-rig...

Man this is great

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SUBSCRIBE TO MAGAZINE WORLD! A new Flaming Hydra tier with a print issue coming soon, plus broadsides throughout the year, the first of which you can read right now! flaminghydra.com/magazine-wor...

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Wrote about Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Small Bow www.thesmallbow.com/p/like-a-sha...

Flaming Hydra officially turned 2 last Friday. It's one of the truly special and exciting places on the internet. I feel proud all the time of what a great thing it is. flaminghydra.com/issue-492/

Was in a bar Saturday night for the Bears game, and there really is an amazing dumb-crazy voodoo in a crowded place rising all at once from the dead during a comeback. All that begging! All these dear friends. Who's that guy? Raining sweat, babbling to himself? Who cares. You'd bail him out of jail.

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We're going to make it

There's a scene in Gay Talese's book about building the Verrazzano Bridge where a half-foot long steel bolt falls from way up and hits an iron worker in the cheek with such insane force the tip of the bolt punctures all the way into his throat. Few weeks later he was back working on the bridge again

Hell yes

Wrote about going home for this month's Hydra flaminghydra.com/home-for-the...

This is one of the best and most exciting things I read all year. It's a profile of these two terminators, but there is so much brilliant, wonderful stuff in here too about human genius, obsession, confidence, & the nature of sports narratives. It's dynamite. bookshop.org/p/books/chan...

Yes, true. @flaminghydra.com is $3/month, it is a coop 100% owned by 60+ writers / artists who make it Recent unpaywalled pieces: @samthielman.com on Platner's tattoos: flaminghydra.com/boys-lives/ @josie.zone and @zachrabiroff.com on Marvel's secret ghostwriter: flaminghydra.com/a-swingin-su...

The fiction Colin's written for Hydra the last few months has really knocked me on my ass

Flaming Hydra is a coop. All you can do with your share is sell it back to the coop (for $1), and nobody can have more than one. You have to be ready for growth to take a long time. Journalism is a public trust that should be accountable to readers alone, and that means readers alone pay for it.

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Wrote about Italy, Caravaggio and man against the machine flaminghydra.com/caravaggio-s...

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