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Episode 722: Barbara Hanby!
Episode 722 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 King interviews Barbara Hanby about the array of odes in her wonderful new poetry collection, Burn. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES To… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #381: Batman: Gotham Knight
We’re doing another Batman Month here at the Museum of Schlock. After all, September 19th is Batman Day. We won’t be going for the obvious, big screen adaptations and will instead settle for small screen oddities in animated form. After all, the definitive Batman for me will always be the one I first saw in… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #178: In the Weeds
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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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #386: The Start
In all things, there is an origin point—the space in which the void at the center is filled with something inexplicable and all work that comes after is inevitably inspired. While Jack Kirby had his own origins working for Marvel—maybe working a bit more than his chief collaborator would claim—it was when he landed at… Continue reading
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Video: The End of the Ub Iwerks Era
Ub Iwerks’s “Fiddlesticks” was released on August 16, 1930, not especially long after a suspiciously similar cartoon, Mickey Mouse’s “Fiddlin’ Around,” released on March 14, 1930. Samantha and John meet Flip the Frog and have … thoughts. Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Don’t Look Now UK 1973 Director: Nicolas Roeg Cast: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Adelina Poerio There is much to discuss about Don’t Look Now. Not least the revolutionary editing, the nonlinear time frame, the astonishing love scene, and Pino Donaggio’s brillaint music score. We will focus on a topic that has… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #380: Lizard in a Woman’s Skin
We began this month with a Dario Argento giallo movie so we’ll end with a Lucio Fulci film. Of course, Lucio Fulci is no stranger to giallo. I think I covered Murder Rock and Don’t Torture a Duckling years ago, but tonight we’ll go for a heavy hitter in the form of 1971’s Lizard in a Woman’s Skin. I will… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #177: Brief Spotlight
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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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #385: Duelists in the Depths
Actually, it’s not over yet. After mulling further on how Promethea and The Invisibles functioned as comics last week, I couldn’t get the thought of their structure and aims out of my head. In lieu, then, of the article I was going to write on another series, we’re diving back even deeper on two series that shown what magic was able to… Continue reading
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Video: Reacting to “Fiddlin’ Around”
In this cartoon, Mickey is classical violinist who suffers surreal extremes of emotional upset and musical instrument breakage. Is Mickey Mouse crying over Ub Iwerk’s departure from the Disney company? Quite possibly. Directed by Walt Disney and animated by anonymous animators, “Fiddlin’ Around” was released on March 6, 1930. Continue reading
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