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Video: Loose Lips December 2025
The Drunken Odyssey commandeered the Loose Lips oratory series during the tidings of yule and whatnot on December 2, 2025. The readers included Fred Lambert, Rachael Tillman and her deadly horsemen Shawn McKee, Samantha Nickerson, and that rapscallion John King. Tod Caviness hosted the event with much good cheer. Continue reading
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Episode 696: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burroughs’s Interzone (with Matt Peters)!
Episode 696 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this show, John and Matt Peters continue The Kerouac Project Book Club with a discussion of William S. Burrough’s third fiction manuscript, Interzone, the cliff before one arrives at Naked Lunch. TEXTS DISCUSSED Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #351: Oh. What. Fun.
I was about to get my throat slit by a man dressed as a character from a Star Wars knockoff. The Revenging Manta, the ninja vigilante of downtown Orlando, crept out of the van, ready to surrender himself over to the mob to save my skin. He slowly withdrew his sword and dropped it on the Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #352: A War in Two Parts
History tends to focus on the fighters, not on civilians. That gap is explored in the first chapter of Susumu Higa’s Okniawa collection, Sword of Sand. Okinawa is the smallest of Japan’s main islands. The Okinawa prefecture itself has a tenuous relationship with mainland Japan. When the Imperial Japanese Army arrives to the various islands surrounding Okinawa during Continue reading
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Coloring Book Club: Peter Kuper’s Insectopolis!
Almost two years ago, my friends and I gathered to discuss Dune in all its iterations while coloring in a Dune coloring book. Nearly two years later, my friends and I gathered to discuss and color Peter Kuper’s Insectopolis. Peter was kind enough to zoom in to assess our efforts. Continue reading
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Episode 695: Loose Lips December 2025!
Episode 695 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). The Drunken Odyssey commandeered the Loose Lips oratory series during the tidings of yule and whatnot on December 2, 2025. The readers included Fred Lambert, Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #360: Riddick
I flew out of the van, fists clenched and ready to pound. My eyes were on the Goose Lord’s Enforcer and the crumpled mess of a kangaroo that lay in front of him. I would beat him within an inch of his life for what he did to Edwige, but my gesture was ill-advised. One Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #351: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 40
The last time I remember seeing snow was before the plague began. And even what I remember of it then was a fleeting slurry that hung in the air for a few moments before melting on the ground. It’s been even longer since I’ve seen snow that piled up high enough to support my weight Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #101: Joe Abercrombie’s The Devils
In his novel The Devils, Joe Abercrombie breaks away from the fantasy genre conventions so essential to his epic ten book First Law series. In assembling a new cast of characters, Abercrombie turns instead to horror tropes: werewolves, vampires, the living dead. With his customary lyrical prose, narrative wit, and memorable monsters, Abercrombie delivers a thrilling adventure, a Continue reading
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Recent Posts
- Video: Loose Lips December 2025
- Video: Kerouac Project Farewell Reading: Mamie Pound!
- Episode 696: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burroughs’s Interzone (with Matt Peters)!
- The Curator of Schlock #351: Oh. What. Fun.
- Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #352: A War in Two Parts
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