A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem. $3/month https://flaminghydra.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/flaminghydra.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/flaminghydra.com/post/3mlcbkdu7ds24TODAY: MAD MAGAZINE week continues! @sarahweinman.com on the saga of parody master Frank Jacobs. “This is the story of how one very upset songwriter, a magazine already used to fending off lawsuits, and an infamous appeals court judge collided.” https://flaminghydra.com/spoken-in-jest/07 May 2026 22:34 +0000at://did:plc:bkpubeiwffkt4rkafigmwuju/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlcbkdu7ds24https://bsky.app/profile/flaminghydra.com/post/3ml7ru65o5222TODAY: MAD MAGAZINE WEEK continues with Misha Angrist on a truly great parody romance. “At the end, as Wallet strolls pensively through New York in his hideous blazer, he wonders what kind of a tear-jerker movie could make death look so beautiful.” https://flaminghydra.com/r/376d26a2?m=1e1ac67a-2f95-4752-aff2-5b0a9ee1587606 May 2026 22:47 +0000at://did:plc:bkpubeiwffkt4rkafigmwuju/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7ru65o5222https://bsky.app/profile/flaminghydra.com/post/3ml5casa4hs2lTODAY: MAD MAGAZINE WEEK continues with @zachrabiroff.com and a disquisition on Al Jaffee, the inventor of the fold-in. "Dissociation, tragedy, and absurdity were powerful forces in Jaffee’s development, forming the foundation of his life’s work." https://flaminghydra.com/al-jaffee-unfolded/05 May 2026 23:03 +0000at://did:plc:bkpubeiwffkt4rkafigmwuju/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml5casa4hs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/flaminghydra.com/post/3ml2p2wvaw22aTODAY: Please welcome MAD MAGAZINE week, piloted by our own @zachrabiroff.com. First up: @annaleen.bsky.social on sicko chaos cartoonist Don Martin. https://flaminghydra.com/don-martin-mads-sickest-artist/04 May 2026 22:14 +0000at://did:plc:bkpubeiwffkt4rkafigmwuju/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2p2wvaw22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/flaminghydra.com/post/3mktabih3rc2yTODAY: @supremenothing.myatproto.social on the perhaps overhyped, hotly-discussed Quebec band Angine de Poitrine, and what their sudden virality says about Music Today. "In part, I think the commercial landscape of modern music online is to blame." https://flaminghydra.com/r/aca7d527?m=1e1ac67a-2f95-4752-aff2-5b0a9ee1587601 May 2026 23:01 +0000at://did:plc:bkpubeiwffkt4rkafigmwuju/app.bsky.feed.post/3mktabih3rc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/flaminghydra.com/post/3mkqvharljk2rTODAY: @mkupperman.bsky.social with the pocket guide to Kafka. “They messed with the wrong bug man.” https://flaminghydra.com/classic-books-explained-the-metamorphosis/01 May 2026 00:42 +0000at://did:plc:bkpubeiwffkt4rkafigmwuju/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqvharljk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/flaminghydra.com/post/3mkoip3mxws2nTODAY: @mariabustillos.com on the Harper’s Letter. “The letter’s true purpose—to help create favorable conditions for a far-right authoritarian takeover of U.S. cultural institutions—was concealed in a tissue of lies about protecting the free exchange of ideas.” https://flaminghydra.com/r/bec00c20?m=1e1ac67a-2f95-4752-aff2-5b0a9ee1587630 Apr 2026 01:48 +0000at://did:plc:bkpubeiwffkt4rkafigmwuju/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkoip3mxws2n