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...

My favorite double feature was never made:

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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.

Wyo Hill North, 1/8/2026, 5:19:32 PM

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.

This rocks

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

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Maybe nothing in sports as close to hard drugs as watching a bullpen rollicking in and out of jams, wet hair and strange jewelry, spitting and cursing, having entire conversations with themselves. A ship of filthy pirates drunk on the high seas.

Clairemont, San Diego @rbuas.bsky.social @damonagnos.bsky.social

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There's an ancient-looking tree on the corner between us and the elementary school and some city guys came by to take it down. They sent one of them up into the air in the little bucket with a chainsaw, and every time he cut a branch off the schoolkids all went nuts like there was a walk-off homer.

Drinking the last half of a beer as Dennis Santana gets Ohtani swinging and deciding the 63-77 Pirates will make the playoffs

This is really great

"Whoa whoa whoa. Take a look at this. Now if you're the confederacy, you like that they've put you in this position. Look at this action here by the Union, trying to cross the Rappahannock under the rebel guns. This is as foolish as anything you will see in the league"