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Exquisite corpse / Science friction

I like that Hydra publishes a wide variety of stuff, including work from a few really talented cartoonists and illustrators. @mkupperman.bsky.social's latest is a good gag. flaminghydra.com/issue-661/#t...

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Little-known history revealed by Michael Kupperman; a Nobel-winning biologist had the answer in 1969, says Maria Bustillos

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Every story about a mid NBA player making $40 million dollars per year should be a story about how we're drowning in advertising.

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It's really depressing how terrible Deshaun Watson had to get for Browns fans to boo him and how not-particularly-good he has to be in order to elicit cheers.

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The feeling of getting soaked walking home in the rain, and then putting on new clothes.

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The Phillies exist in a perpetual state of "good to drive."

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The Hydra Review of Books rolls on.

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I stand on tradition. The Astros play at Enron Field. They deserve to wear that shame.

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Colin McGowan @csmcgowan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feel like I need to begin every comment on the Catholic Church by mentioning that it might be the worst institution in the history of civilization, but Pope Bob is committed to 1.) serving the poor and 2.) the largely moribund Chicago White Sox, and both of those things are cool.

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Keep getting my ass kicked in bars for insisting that "I'm pretty sure" Mitch Richmond is the NBA's all-time leader in made 3s.

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Colin McGowan @csmcgowan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's like the 15th most insane thing they've got going, but it does occur to me that never in my life have I read so many headlines about the White House directly intervening in the marketplace.

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Colin McGowan @csmcgowan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thinking this every time there is A List.

Rosenbaum's reaction to the AFI's top 100 list.

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Colin McGowan @csmcgowan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There's not exactly a pasta offseason in this household, but also: it's pasta season, baby.

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Everyone with a white collar job interview in the next few weeks is going to be partially evaluated on their ability to fake-laugh at a prospective boss's iced coffee joke.

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I say the POW-MIA cranks have five more years to bring home all those 73-year-olds making wallets in Vietnam. After that, we take the flags down.

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That's kind of a gross way of putting it, but sure, I would agree that Jessica Chastain is "other mommy." A film, you say?

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Colin McGowan @csmcgowan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Al Michaels these days is mostly doing dippy old guy stuff like calling the Falcons running back Dijon Robinson but every once in a while he'll say something wildly blunt like "after that drive, they may want to put their quarterback down like a lame horse" and I'm back in.

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45-40 and best-in-the-league defense. I've never seen anything exactly like it. Not sure the sport has, really.

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Colin McGowan @csmcgowan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A grace note after every Cubs loss: the fries from Wrigleyville Dogs are always crispy.

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Colin McGowan @csmcgowan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't like when people dress their dogs up for Halloween, but a functional little raincoat on a Jack Russell Terrier? Look, I'm not made of stone.

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Colin McGowan @csmcgowan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We should build some kind of monument that lists actors, pols, and other rich and famous people who aren't for sale. It wouldn't have to be large; it seems like there are only a couple dozen of them.

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Colin McGowan @csmcgowan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jeff Garlin has made me laugh as a comedian, annoyed me as a personality, and now he's old and sputtering and mostly just bums me out. Life is a process of deterioration.

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Colin McGowan @csmcgowan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We gotta find an aspirational register somewhere between LinkedIn Grindset Psychosis and Ack! Adulting Is So Hard!

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It really is incredible how the guy is Hitler without politics. Terrible taste, hates everybody, but if we threw him a big enough party, he'd enact full communism.

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According to every hobby subreddit, you either need to spend $8,000 minimum on equipment or are an idiot for spending more than $35.

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There's nothing more King of New York than winning a title and sucking on SNL and Jalen Brunson is absolutely going to do that second thing.

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