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MCClurg’s Musicalia #159: Break’s Over
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A… Continue reading
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Video: Mickey Mousing Around #7: Reacting to “The Plowboy.”
John and Samantha return to the black and white era of Mickey Mouse to witness Mickey getting even more country. Continue reading
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Episode 717: Bob Spitz!
Episode 717 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). In this week’s episode, John interviews music journalist and biographer Bob Spitz about the massive sixty-year career of The Rolling Stones, how the music moves… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #377: What Is a Revolution?
We typically think of the ways in which monthly comics changed in the 80s with series like Watchmen, Doom Patrol, Batman: Year One, and a host of others. But the shifting visual narrative perspectives culminated in the 90s with many of the classic series that would come to define Vertigo not only as an imprint, but as a kind… Continue reading
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Video: Mickey Mousing Around #6: When the Cat’s Away
John and Samantha return to the black and white era of Mickey Mouse to witness what happens when the cat’s away. There is moonshine and mouse-foolery and magical music. Continue reading
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Episode 716: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch (with Matt Peters)!
Episode 716 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). In this week’s episode, John and Matt Peters complete their discussion of William S. Burroughs’s first quartet of manuscripts as part of The Kerouac Project… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #371: Free Hand for a Tough Cop
What was the deal with perms for men in the 1970s? Who thought this was a good idea? I’m trying not to be judgmental. After all, I’m a Curator of Schlock. Let your freak flag fly as far as I’m concerned, but did you ever think of the consequences? I’m sure Bob Ross thought it… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #376: Until the End
I do suppose this is it. After five volumes in just as many weeks, we’ve finally come to the last volume of Promethea and have fully immersed ourselves in the world that’s been created for us. But has it really been created for us, or has it been here the whole time—a fiction hiding just beneath what… Continue reading
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Video: Mickey Mousing Around #5
Mickey Mousing Around returns with a reaction video to the 1929 classic, “The Opry House.” Samantha Nickerson and John delve once again. Continue reading
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Episode 715: Henry Hughes!
Episode 715 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). In this week’s episode, John speaks with the poet Henry Hughes about poetry, fishing, patience, creativity, Charles Bukowski, and other matters of literary interest. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES… Continue reading
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