TODAY: A brief history of the culture wars, going back several hundred years flaminghydra.com/closing-time/

My latest for itsflaminghydra: thinking way too hard about that stupid picture of Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Elon Musk, and RFK Jr. eating McDonald's on Trump's private jet (but not letting House Speaker Mike Johnson have any, apparently). flaminghydra.com/twenty-one-rea…

My latest newsletter itsflaminghydra Dining with the former colonial master is like dining with the devil; he who dines must come along with the long spoon. flaminghydra.com/the-last-kick-…

My thoughts on "100 Years of Solitude" and future literary adaptations here on itsflaminghydra flaminghydra.com/isssue-224/#wh…

In my latest for itsflaminghydra, I wrote about the trials and tribulations of moving house recently and how it set into motion a wave of unresolved OCD flaminghydra.com/issue-226/#tid…

For itsflaminghydra, I wrote about Randy Newman, loving LA, and finding beauty in the imperfect: flaminghydra.com/issue-238/

"Mother, child, publisher, author—this dynamic !s inimical to the functioning of an industry where we are selling words, and where people rely on us to challenge culture, challenge anything and everything with words." Yemisi Aribisala, for itsflaminghydra flaminghydra.com/from-the-horse…

New in itsflaminghydra: the tech "geniuses" of Silicon Valley are obsessed with a hypothetical about AI, a nuclear warhead, and uttering an offensive word to save millions of lives. The scenario reveals just how stupid the culture wars have made them: flaminghydra.com/defusing-the-s…

My latest for Flaming Hydra, on a prescient vision from the "William Blake of comics" flaminghydra.com/what-the-king-…

A “mom-and-pop” gallery in my neighborhood collaborates with local artists from underrepresented communities - I talked with owners Shrey and Jacqueline for latest at Flaming Hydra : flaminghydra.com/my-local-galle…

We don’t tweet over here much anymore due to the fact that it sucks and is bad, but find us on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/flamin…

Wrote about my bizarre nocturnal schedule in my latest for itsflaminghydra flaminghydra.com/the-night-dwel…

My latest for itsflaminghydra is a story(?) prose poem(?) meditation(?) on the most powerful deity in existence: the God of Parking. flaminghydra.com/the-god-of-par…

In my latest for itsflaminghydra, wrote about the pressing need to connect the dots globally at a time of democratic backsliding across the world—not just in the US, which gets the most attention flaminghydra.com/issue-298/#we-…

Wrote on the political imagination of fascism as reflected through pop culture--and what that says about the present political moment in the US--in my latest for itsflaminghydra flaminghydra.com/airplane-movie…

new from me in itsflaminghydra: the latest chapter of my serialized novel(?), pertaining to a most unusual meal: flaminghydra.com/in-the-blood/

New for itsflaminghydra: an analysis of our national mood by way of the top five songs on last week's American Country Countdown: flaminghydra.com/issue-332/#cou…

my new itsflaminghydra piece is a little glimpse into how i would write an advice column flaminghydra.com/issue-356/#bet…