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His stories are changed forever and Diana writes about that really beautifully here

Romance, relived Mourning and celebrating Rob Reiner at a Hollywood screening with Diana Moskovitz

Btw, If you're a @flaminghydra.com subscriber, today is your lucky day!

You get a blog from me about what it's like to see When Harry Met Sally on the big screen, along with some thoughts about why we don't have more rom-coms lately:

Romance, relived Mourning and celebrating Rob Reiner at a Hollywood screening with Diana Moskovitz

TODAY: @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social attends a double billing in LA of two Rob Reiner classics. "I’m paraphrasing a bit, but at one point he said, with the purest conviction, that as long as there are human beings on this Earth, we would watch Rob Reiner films." flaminghydra.com/r/c11479d3?m...

Comics panel. [CAPTION] 'A MAN PASS BY AND, SEEING THE FROG, GRABBED IT...' [IMAGE] against a tomato-red and orange kerpow!-looking background, a hand grasping a surprised-looking green frog.

Equal parts ravishing and harrowing debut comic from @mkupperman.bsky.social at @flaminghydra.com

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Fascist Art as Vampire Toward an Understanding of Fascist Aesthetics, Part II

"Despite their ceaseless use of the rhetorical cudgel of 'beauty' to defend their authoritarian obsessions, fascists contribute nothing to art." flaminghydra.com/fascist-art-...

We used @littlewow.online’s Haggadah tonight and it was really wonderful

I read through a ton of Seder supplements and made my own Haggadah! you can download it here! 👇

Undead aesthetics / Bountiful feast Kate Wagner burns vampires; Seder with Jennie Rose Halperin

Part two of my discourses on fascist art is now up @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-535/

Last year I accidentally hosted a Seder where the majority of participants weren't Jewish and it was incredibly fun and meaningful. Passover is for everyone! Except the people having "Christian Seders"! You specifically can stop!

wrote about Götterdämmerung, the suicide penguin, and the madly problematic yet innovative Luigi Russolo, among other things

Come in and eat! I hosted my first Seder thirteen years ago in Berlin at my friend’s squatted apartment, a former doctor’s office turned WG (Wohngemeinschaft, a shared apartment) in Kreuzberg. For weeks, I trawled Ger...

ALSO TODAY: @littlewow.online on hosting every Seder possible. "I’ve tried to introduce as many people as I can to this liberatory and often moving tradition with hand-picked readings and a commitment to centering community." flaminghydra.com/come-in-and-...

Undead aesthetics / Bountiful feast Kate Wagner burns vampires; Seder with Jennie Rose Halperin

TODAY: @katewagner.wehwalt.net on the vampiric nature of fascist art. "Despite their ceaseless use of the rhetorical cudgel of 'beauty' to defend their authoritarian obsessions, fascists contribute nothing to art." flaminghydra.com/issue-535/#f...

Avi Lewis screenshot against a red background with caption: New NDP Leader Lewis says his father told him 'not in my lifetime, maybe in yours'

Read Canadian writer and musician Nathan Munn on new developments in Canadian progressive politics, where @naomiaklein.bsky.social's husband Avi Lewis has just become leader of the progressive NDP.

An exhilarating story

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Hope on the Canadian Left Last week, journalist and activist Avi Lewis won the leadership of Canada’s federal New Democratic Party after campaigning on a platform to levy new taxes on billionaires, launch publicly-owned grocer...

ALSO TODAY: Nathan Munn on a progressive victory. “It’s been said that politics is the art of the possible. But right now in Canada it feels like we’re stuck between a dissipating past and a volatile future, making it hard even to identify what’s possible now.” flaminghydra.com/hope-on-the-...

Frog day afternoon / Canadian spring A familiar fable reimagined by Michael Kupperman; Nathan Munn on exhilarating developments in Canada’s NDP

TODAY: a new comic from our newest Hydra @mkupperman.bsky.social! flaminghydra.com/r/f87abb4a?m...

Frog day afternoon / Canadian spring A familiar fable reimagined by Michael Kupperman; Nathan Munn on exhilarating developments in Canada’s NDP

If you love comics we have such a treat for you, please welcome our latest Hydra, @mkupperman.bsky.social, to @flaminghydra.com

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Surrealist Strategies When the painter Leonora Carrington’s lover was arrested by the Gestapo in 1940, she fled their sanctuary in rural France and promptly had a psychotic break. Her incandescent, floridly extramarital af...

I went to Paris and wrote about the GOATS Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. For @flaminghydra.com: flaminghydra.com/surrealist-s...

Much agreed. Real people have histories, memories, ideas, stories, etc. to share, and so are interesting; machines don’t have any of those things and are *not interesting.*

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LC forever

yessss Leonora hive

This is crazy! I wrote about this exact thing this very day
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Art alchemy / Infernal machines Anna Merlan on Leonora Carrington, and Maria Bustillos on the battle against genAI “writing”

A relief to read @annamerlan.bsky.social's beautiful meditation on the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington, an invincible artist who fought and survived patriarchy, oppression, and fascism
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the women surrealists were way more interesting than their male counterparts

There’s No App for That I have a lot of trouble talking about genAI “writing” with people who are in favor of it because it is super embarrassing to me, and pitiful, that anyone would confuse slop for the real thing. When I...

ALSO TODAY: @mariabustillos.com on real (yes we said it) writing and that other shit. “I don’t know one single professional writer who would dream for even an instant of using genAI to do their work. The idea is very, very unpleasant.” flaminghydra.com/theres-no-ap...

Surrealist Strategies When the painter Leonora Carrington’s lover was arrested by the Gestapo in 1940, she fled their sanctuary in rural France and promptly had a psychotic break. Her incandescent, floridly extramarital af...

TODAY: @annamerlan.bsky.social on the life and alchemy of witchy surrealist Leonora Carrington, “her life and work suspended somewhere between the real and the worlds of witchcraft, fables and dreams” flaminghydra.com/surrealist-s...

What Was the Horny Profile? Once upon a time, in the dark days of the early 2000s, we were beset on all sides by horny profiles. This was a replicable genre, wherein a writer—usually, but not always a man, met a subject—usually,...

Posting this excellent @annamerlan.bsky.social @flaminghydra.com piece without additional comment because I just deleted a sentence that contained the words "salad" and "post-horny" and I should really get some sleep.

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