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HERE WE COME

updates from HYDRA HQ, especially for our subscribers.
Here you will find announcements and extras, including downloadable treats, while we prepare for launch at the end of January. We are having fun getting everything ready. Questions? Notions? Please get in touch with us at hello@flaminghydra.com.
Welcome new Hydras: John Herrman, The Awl, New York Times, New York Magazine; Tommy Craggs, HBO, Mother Jones, Deadspin, and Jonathan Katz, Gangsters of Capitalism, The Racket. Prepare to read their words shortly.
We’ve released our PRINTABLE GIFT-PAK that comes with original fortunes written by members, a fortune cookie recipe, a coloring page from Amy Chu PLUS Weather Review postcards from Tom Scocca! Collect the files below and print at home, or at your local library.
YEAR OF THE HYDRA Fortunes
consult the cookie. written by our contributors
YEAR OF THE HYDRA Fortunes.pdf
82 KB
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Flaming Hydra Fortune Cookie Recipe
say yes to making fortune cookies from scratch
Flaming Hydra Fortune Cookie Recipe.pdf
85 KB
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Weather Review postcards by Tom Scocca
dispatches from the skies to your mailbox
Weather Review postcards by Tom Scocca.pdf
261 KB
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IM NOT WORRIED Coloring Sheet by Amy Chu
RELAX with this black and white coloring sheet
IM NOT WORRIED Coloring Sheet by Amy Chu.pdf
6 MB
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And in case you'd prefer to let someone else do the cooking... a custom fortune cookie hack that involves a microwave.

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Filmed by Shirley Wang

The cover of 'The English Understand Wool' by Helen DeWitt, feat. many little dessert plates, each bearing a sludgy-looking slice of cake
Too many cakes, as the English say.
Here’s a Little Golden Book for grownups; New Directions’s design is a delight. DeWitt’s preciousness drives me up a tree, but this story is fun as hell. I can’t tell whether or not I’m supposed to be eye-rolling at the pompous teen aesthete, but certainly the hilarious NY media guys we’re meant to be rolling our eyes at. Anyhow. Lot of textiles, many lols. -Maria Bustillos
Read our free HOLIDAY ISSUE of Flaming Hydra, feat. SO MANY beautiful things: Leila Brillson and friends on ACE OF BASE, Diana Moskovitz on 'Sleepless in Seattle,' and Tom Scocca in a long-ago Dodge Coronet. PLUS a beautiful holiday illustration from Trevor Alixopulos. Click to read!