Colin McGowan

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Used to write for lots of places. Now mostly at Flaming Hydra, a co-op newsletter: https://flaminghydra.com/contributor/colin-mcgowan/

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I know they're brainstorming and floating trial balloons, and it's not like I know exactly what to do, but there are clearly people in the Democratic Party who are too stupid to live, let alone operate a campaign or govern.

Doing the cosmos in the coffee monologue but it's pickling brine.

The entire Uruguay bench giving the fourth official agita as a terrible and contentious 90 minutes draws to a scoreless close is, in its way, what the Copa America is all about.

Thinking about having a Boys' Weekend in

Been cooking my way through Six Seasons and while everything is quite good, the pasta recipes positively rip. Linguine with snap peas, pancetta, and cacio e pepe butter. Pasta alla Norma with eggplant and cherry tomatoes. Incredible shit.

Really? I must suffer Real Madrid Bullshit even at an international tournament?

We fucked up that every documentary now needs to be a four to six-hour Television Event.

When I throw kalamatas on the pizza, that's going Kosta Koufos mode.

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TODAY: join us in defending the Internet Archive and protecting libraries!! An important appellate hearing is happening this morning, which you can read all about at the link below. And if you’re in New York and you spot our wheatpaste, please snap a photo and share. www.battleforlibraries.com

The Dems should be trying to drastically restructure government—packing the court, disempowering it, getting rid of the senate and/or electoral college—in order to preserve any semblance of democracy we have left, but they're worried it would be rude.

Oh come on.

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It's always such a thrill when VERDICT SZN hits and nine lawyers decide what the entire rest of the government is allowed to do.

I'm finally drafted into the NBA. The camera cuts to me in front of a fridge, shoveling cold lo mein into my mouth.

The stadium PA blasting "Song 2" after a disastrous Turkey own goal is my favorite moment of the tourney so far.

This @davidklion.bsky.social piece is a thorough examination of how Biden's handling of Israel's war has been, yes, morally reprehensible but also stupid and incoherent and potentially suicidal. www.thenation.com/article/arch...

The Lifelong Incoherence of Biden’s Israel Strategywww.thenation.com The president’s muddled policy course in the Middle East is angering voters across the political spectrum—and it could usher Trump back into the White House.

Flaming Hydra has a hundred issues now. What's been really gratifying about this project is how, in each other's orbit but also solitarily, as writers are, we're gradually discovering the full possibility of what we can do together. I'm excited for many hundreds more. flaminghydra.com/issue-100/

ISSUE! 100! .......... Janky Jerusalem / Barnes ennobledflaminghydra.com

I picked the right year to stop writing about the NBA. I feel like somebody who peacefully shuffled off the mortal coil on like September 8th.

I know secret movies aren't new and stars have always been in shit that didn't work, that Paramount dumped in February, but Netflix is producing them at a clip that suggests a deep philosophical commitment to wasting famous people's time.

"The effect of training people’s attention on matters of discourse and representation is to avoid addressing what is principally at issue, which are material facts. The material facts in this case are: money, land, weapons, and over 37,000 dead Palestinians." www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

Acts of Language | Isabella Hammadwww.nybooks.com Since the protests began on campuses throughout the United States, I have been struck by the verbal contortions many writers have gone through to avoid

TCM is the perfect bar channel. It's either playing a good movie like Apollo 13 or The Apartment, or it's some bullshit technicolor Robin Hood adaptation from 1949 that would suck to actually watch but looks really nice on mute for 45 seconds at a time.

Thinking about a less steroidal Randy Savage type who would come to the Port Authority to work the ships, unload windmill parts. One time he drove a forklift by a secluded spot where I was lazing, hiding from work and boomed "I FUCKIN' LOVE IT!" Shot me a thumbs up. I've never felt more like a man.

Running a flag up the 50 foot pole outside of my third home. It depicts the female reproductive system in a thicket of frenzied-looking arrows. It's unclear what my position even is but it's very clear that I'm incapable of polite conversation.

Rooting for Dirk in the 2011 Finals felt fundamentally generous. Rooting for Luka is just hoping some dumb dickhead you know succeeds in blowing up a police station.

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Something crucial this mentions is the distance I felt between the writers I grew up admiring and me stuck somewhere on the other side of the river, toiling on a blogspot, hoping someone would respond to my e-mail, and The Classical arriving to ferry us across. flaminghydra.com/the-zombie-c...

The Zombie Classicalflaminghydra.com by Colin McGowan I’ve written for several sites that have passed beyond the veil. I would prefer that my work be easily accessible somewhere, but I know that digital media is fragile. The late Steve ...

Modern athletes are a fucking bummer. www.bnnbloomberg.ca/bears-rookie...

Bears Rookie Quarterback Caleb Williams Launches Investment Firm - BNN Bloombergwww.bnnbloomberg.ca Chicago Bears rookie quarterback Caleb Williams is launching 888 Midas, an investment firm that will target private equity, venture capital and real estate deals.

Whenever Saward writes about bars, read it. www.vice.com/en/article/e...

Here Comes a Regular: How Barflies Became My Brotherswww.vice.com Working at a neighborhood bar, I found fraternal love in the arms of drunken strangers.

For the morning crowd: The Classical got resurrected by some ghouls who have populated it with AI-generated crap. I wrote about what made it good, back when it was a real website. flaminghydra.com/the-zombie-c...

I'm at @flaminghydra.com today, writing about the unholy, bot-aided rebirth of The Classical. flaminghydra.com/the-zombie-c...

Caesar sassily dipping a toe into the Rubicon as the entire Roman Republic makes stern don't-you-do-it faces.