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Video: Reacting to Mickey Mouse in “The Cactus Kid”!
John and Samantha react to another classic Mickey Mouse cartoon. As in Gallopin’ Gaucho (1928), The Cactus Kid (1930) once again shows Mickey Mouse entering a bar at which Minnie Mouse presides. A lecherous Pete shows up and commits crimes. Continue reading
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Episode 723: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of Gregory Corso’s The Happy Birthday of Death (with Alex Gurtis)!
Episode 723 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 Alex Gurtis dive deeper into Gregory Corso’s poetry as part of The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club. TEXTS… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #382: Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Welcome to Week 2 of Batman Month here at the Museum of Schlock. This week’s feature is 2019’s Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from director Jake Castorena. Many of you will be disappointed as there is no scene of Batman hogtying Leonardo as he cries out “April! April!” Batman would then proceed to slice Leonardo’s head… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #179: Still Here
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 #387: Prescient Moments
The rhythm for the last few months has been my following the various volumes and omnibuses of series like Promethea, The Invisibles, and now Jack Kirby’s Fourth World. While this is a rhythm I’d like to maintain, something stuck me when I got to end of the first volume of the Fourth World omnibuses and that’s The Forever People #3 and… Continue reading
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Episode 722: Barbara Hamby!
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 Hamby 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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Recent Posts
- Video: Reacting to Mickey Mouse in “The Cactus Kid”!
- Episode 723: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of Gregory Corso’s The Happy Birthday of Death (with Alex Gurtis)!
- The Curator of Schlock #382: Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- McClurg’s Musicalia #179: Still Here
- Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #387: Prescient Moments
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