As a (lapsed) Florida boy, this is so good
This is (ten chapters and one run-in with a gator on a golf course) away from being the best thing about Florida writing since Carl Hiassen
my first published fiction since.... high school maybe?? im getting wild at the Hydra
in which I get Le Carriéd away and wrote some spy fiction of my own for @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-518/#t...
TODAY: new fiction from the great @swordsjew.bsky.social. “She had a keen talent for mimicry, and had easily taken on seven or eight new identities a year. A secretary in Brno, a student in Ostrava; once she had been three different girls in Prague in three months.” flaminghydra.com/r/b369c656?m...
a timeline on this point
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A thrill to have cartoons from @tomtomorrow.bsky.social at @flaminghydra.com
Subscribe to read this new one!
From just $3/month: flaminghydra.com/subscribe
(living for the day he gets to comment on good rather than hideous news)
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It’s the guy from the cartoon!!!!
"We are DC and we are a comic company. We are an American art form. We’re proud of being an art form."
@zachrabiroff.com has a great interview with Jenette Kahn, an undersung pioneer in comics at @flaminghydra.com today.
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WHAT a WEEK. Thank you as always for your support of Flaming Hydra! And, as always: AAAAAAAAA!
text exchange with tommy which reads: tommy: (link to article about new guy ritchie movie) A seventh Guy Ritchie movie has hit our friendship me: (sigh) let’s do this. tommy: (Defeatedly) looking forward to it
Guy Ritchie, BBQ King by Rax King A barren tree in flames, from top to bottom, against a night sky; part of a promo video for WildKitchens Screenshot: ccwildkitchens.com My friend Tommy and I have to see all of Guy Ritchie’s films together in theaters—it’s tradition. That means once or twice a year Tommy texts me, in tones of unmistakable resignation, that a new Guy Ritchie movie is out. More than one of these texts has begun with “I have terrible news.” It’s as if Guy Ritchie is our son and we have no choice but to attend all his recitals, no matter how dreadful. In this spirit, we have attended our son’s revenge-thriller recital (Wrath of Man), his war-propaganda recital (Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant), and his killin’-Nazis recital (The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare).
text from today vs. vintage @flaminghydra.com moment Guy Ritchie, BBQ King
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ALSO TODAY: @zachrabiroff.com in conversation with Jenette Khan of DC comics. “I had to learn on the fly. I was 28 years old. I had no business background. And the industry—even though I loved comics, the industry was totally new to me.” flaminghydra.com/an-interview...
TODAY: a word from a cogent news commentator via @tomtomorrow.bsky.social flaminghydra.com/r/c466d7d7?m...
Remember fun!??? even if a little dark?? We have some today at @flaminghydra.com and it did me a world of good
Join @tomtomorrow.bsky.social and @zachrabiroff.com, interviewing, respectively, an art history icon and a titan of the comics world
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The cartoon factory turned out an unanticipated BONUS CARTOON this week, which will run on @flaminghydra.com later today.
Workers have been warned about the destabilizing impact of exceeding quota; management apologizes for any inconvenience.
crazy week, worked through the weekend because of the Iran thing, and somehow (I am very slow) came up with two cartoons for next week , one will be in the usual places and one will be on @flaminghydra.com
gonna try to take a couple days off now
“The sun should set on the ocean, silhouetting the sailboats. The glow of the full moon should cast a faint silver on the rustling fronds of swaying palm trees.”
People either love or hate LA. It will always be home for me. And for 10 years, it has been for @milesklee.bsky.social too.
Great essay.
I have only one complaint about this - it’s too short. I wanted to keep reading!
I wrote a follow-up to my story about the police attack on the Eris Parade. 8 years later it was a very different story. "The parade takes on a life and logic of it's own, and being within it is to be, for a time, part of a creature much larger than yourself."
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for @flaminghydra.com i wrote about observing my ten-year anniversary of moving to LA and finally reading City of Quartz
Awww I love LA (SF Baseball Giants fans, dni) and I love my Flaming Hydra sub, the easiest way to read my faves
Reflections on a decade in Los Angeles by @milesklee.bsky.social, a natural-born Angeleno even if he is from the East Coast
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A golden-costumed figure with chain mail and a jester's headdress and baton riding high in a parade against a silvery, darkening sky
Images of beauty and elation in New Orleans at Mardi Gras, the characteristically soulful, arresting work of @todseelie.bsky.social
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Just subscribed to @flaminghydra.com so I can read this @katewagner.wehwalt.net piece.
Lots of good twt/bsky threads out there on contemp fascist aesthetics & some longer form work, but I'm so stoked for Kate's series bc this shit is RANCID and needs mucho analysis
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ALSO TODAY: @todseelie.bsky.social on photographing the joyous 2019 Eris Parade after a previous one ended in police violence. "The parade takes on a life and a logic of its own, and being within it is to be, for a time, part of a creature much larger than yourself." flaminghydra.com/encore-in-ne...
TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social on ten years in the maddening, mythical Los Angeles. "That disaster, in fact, is possibly what made us come to see ourselves as Angelenos, no longer quite so naive about our paradise that rests on the edge of oblivion." flaminghydra.com/ten-years-be...
I interviewed the incredible Keeonna Harris for Flaming Hydra. We talked about incarcerated pen pals, literary moms, bacon wrapped hot dogs and more. 💚
Author and prison abolitionist Keeonna Harris, interviewed by @lesbrains.bsky.social today at @flaminghydra.com
Cheering to know good women are out there doing what is needed
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TODAY: @lesbrains.bsky.social in conversation with author and memoirist Keeonna Harris. “Women shoulder the burden of male incarceration. Prison forced me to mother my children without their father. Prison forced me to mother my incarcerated partner.” flaminghydra.com/im-from-the-...
For my debut at @flaminghydra.com, which I have just joined, I wrote about the utter weirdness of finding out your dentist was in the Epstein Files. flaminghydra.com/issue-514/
