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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social on the house sparrow, unexpected abundance, and a shrub (I actually think it's a bush) in the park that is bursting with life Laurie Woolever @lauriewoolever.bsky.social asks if you remember The Underminer????? A blissful Hydra today flaminghydra.com/issue-119/

Uncaring and ubiquitous / Esteem shovelflaminghydra.com Today: Tom Scocca, editor of Indignity; and Laurie Woolever, author of Appetites, World Travel, and Bourdain: the Definitive Oral Biography Issue No. 119 A World Built for House Sparrows Tom Scocca...

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UNDERMINER WHO flaminghydra.com/no-no-i-didn...

No, No, I Didn't Expect You to Remember the Underminerflaminghydra.com Why would you?

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THEY LIVE AMONGST US flaminghydra.com/a-world-buil...

A World Built for House Sparrowsflaminghydra.com by Tom Scocca The house sparrow is not an interesting bird. That may have been what finally caught my attention: how hard it was to pay attention to them. Their little drab forms are everywhere—I s...

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This is GREAT pls read and also we have cool new home page features to make it easier to find your place in the great cascade of beauty and insight FLAME ON, you FLAMING HYDRA

Good, short piece on Flaming Hydra by John Saward about the VC's defunct imagination and AI. flaminghydra.com/toys-iant-us/

Toys “ЯNT” Usflaminghydra.com by John Saward In late June, Toys “R” Us premiered a commercial generated using a text-to-video artificial intelligence model. The ad opens with the exterior of a bicycle shop, sometime in the 1930...

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Hello, do you need real journalism and not the stuff that comes from corporate pod people? Heck yes May I suggest for just $3/month FLAMING HYDRA Try some for free here!! and then subscribe, and support a cooperative of real human writers. flaminghydra.com/free/

TODAY: @tomscocca.bsky.social considers the humble, omnipresent house sparrow, whose life dovetails (sorry) so closely with ours: flaminghydra.com/r/5783049a?m...

ALSO TODAY: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social considers the Underminer, a species of faux-friend much lower and less pleasant than the house sparrow flaminghydra.com/no-no-i-didn...

No, No, I Didn't Expect You to Remember the Underminerflaminghydra.com Why would you?

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Oh! I forgot to tell you! I have exciting news!! As of today, I have become the newest member of the @flaminghydra.com collective!!!!! I’m so honored they asked!!! Look out for my first piece next month!!!!! flaminghydra.com

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For today's issue of @flaminghydra.com, I wrote a meditation on the late, great Shelley Duvall, and how my perception of her otherworldly performance in "The Shining" changed over countless repeat viewings.

The face of terror / When rats ran rampantflaminghydra.com Today: Miles Klee, author of the novel Ivyland and culture writer at Rolling Stone; and Harry Siegel, senior editor at THE CITY, co-host of the FAQ NYC podcast, and columnist at the New York Daily New...

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hi hello how have i never read miles klee doing film criticism? his writing is incredible. i do not care about the movies he talks about and yet i was riveted by this piece, whew.

TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social with a lovely piece on the "eccentric grace" of the great Shelley Duvall flaminghydra.com/issue-118/#s...

ALSO TODAY: Harry Siegel with a poem that will also appear in STREET LEATHER, a zine you will soon find "in the gutters and dark alleys of New York City or wherever zines are sold" flaminghydra.com/issue-118/#n...

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WE SWING BIG

Fewer stories this week because we had a lot of big swing long reads and didn't want to overcrowd you! Let us know how it worked!!

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At the Met, you can find a hallucinatory level of detail in a pair of oil paintings. My latest @flaminghydra.com on the intense Jan van Eyck, his mysterious brother Hubert, a 15th Century trip across the Alps, a 20th Century Soviet fire sale, and weird little goblins.

Divine Provenance at the Metflaminghydra.com by David Moore On November 3, 1933, a front-page, above-the-fold New York Times story announced that the Metropolitan Museum of Art would open an exhibition, that very day, of “a small diptych” that ...

Good morning (West Coast edition). Please prepare yourselves for a THREAD of all the great work our Hydras published this week:

@rbuas.bsky.social on a horrendously creepy AI-generated Toys R Us commercial, and a meditation on Toys R Us itself: flaminghydra.com/toys-iant-us/

@brianhioe.bsky.social on reviewing hundreds of Taiwanese movies, and finding common themes. "In the last few years, I’ve seen at least half a dozen Taiwanese movies that I suspect drew inspiration from stories in The Reporter, Taiwan’s leading investigative outlet." flaminghydra.com/taiwanese-mo...

Taiwanese Movies Get Too Familiarflaminghydra.com by Brian Hioe The art of filmmaking requires a mind-boggling aggregation of effort and resources. Me? To write something, I just sit in front of a computer. I don’t need to hire actors or staff, or...

@thielman.bsky.social on Moebius and the art of Jean Giraud. "If the future is one you can see and touch, it makes you a little uneasier because you feel it’s just round the corner. And you always get in his work a sense of overload, of cities on overload.” flaminghydra.com/moebius-and-...

Mœbius and the Art of the Inescapableflaminghydra.com by Sam Thielman “There’s no escaping yourself,” the French artist Jean Giraud observed; thus his principal pseudonym, Mœbius. And no one else can escape Mœbius, either—neither his eminent admirers,...

Jide Salawu on Google's incredible algorithmic racism towards Africa. "On the digital plane, Africa is a place where nothing is happening, with the possible exception of expensive safaris." flaminghydra.com/googles-algo...

Google’s Algorithm Is a Dark Continentflaminghydra.com by Jídé Salawu On June 23, 2024, the account Google in Africa (@googleafrica) on the service formerly known as Twitter posted the following message: Here’s Africa’s most common game. No it’s not h...

Ben Ehrenreich recalls an intense visit to a zoo and accidental metaphysical laboratory in the West Bank flaminghydra.com/the-museum-o...

The Museum of Biologyflaminghydra.com by Ben Ehrenreich I tried to write something about the genocide now underway and the one that is being used to justify it, the one in whose shadow I grew up, but the attempt dropped me into a hole ...

And FINALLY: @sanschain.bsky.social on a mysterious little painting that has traveled through centuries and lots of weirdness to meet you at the Met flaminghydra.com/divine-prove...

Divine Provenance at the Metflaminghydra.com by David Moore On November 4, 1933, a front-page, above-the-fold New York Times story announced that the Metropolitan Museum of Art would open an exhibition, that very day, of “a small diptych” that ...

Fewer stories this week because we had a lot of big swing long reads and didn't want to overcrowd you! Let us know how it worked!!

TODAY: A superb long read from @sanschain.bsky.social about a mysterious little diptych at the Met, that has traveled many centuries through a lot of weird stuff to meet its fans flaminghydra.com/issue-117/#d...

Frame and reputationflaminghydra.com Today: David Moore, co-founder of Sludge. Issue No. 117 Divine Provenance at the Met David Moore Divine Provenance at the Met by David Moore On November 3, 1933, a front-page, above-the-fold ...

What a GREAT piece to close the week. Go to a museum this weekend! Walk the dog! Steal time from your boss if you have to be at work! We'll be back tomorrow with a Saturday morning thread recapping our stellar week. Love you, mean it.

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TODAY: Ben Ehrenreich on his dreamlike visits to a West Bank zoo. "Every time I went Dr. Sami showed me something I had never seen before, something so exuberant in its strangeness that until it was right in front of me my imagination could not have conjured it up." flaminghydra.com/r/31262d6c?m...

Frozen animalsflaminghydra.com Today: Ben Ehrenreich, author of Desert Notebooks and The Way to the Spring. Issue No. 116 The Museum of Biology Ben Ehrenreich The Museum of Biology by Ben Ehrenreich I tried to write someth...

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Here is what Salvador Dalí was going to look like as Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV in the Alejandro Jodorowsky Dune, which would have been fourteen hours long and featured Mick Jagger as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen. Costume rendering by the film’s designer, Mœbius. flaminghydra.com/moebius-and-...

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Sub required, but comics nerds will appreciate this piece on "Mœbius and the Art of the Inescapable" over at Flaming Hydra. flaminghydra.com/moebius-and-...

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For Flaming Hydra, I wrote about Mœbius.

Otherworldly lineflaminghydra.com Today: Sam Thielman, a reporter, critic, essayist, and editor, and graphic novel columnist for the New York Times. Issue No. 114 Mœbius and the Art of the Inescapable Sam Thielman Mœbius and the ...

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