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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Texas Chain Saw Massacre US 1974 Director: Tobe Hooper Cast: Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen, Teri McMinn, Jim Siedow If The Exorcist is the granddaddy of the modern horror movie then Texas Chain Saw Massacre must be the bastard inbred grandchild. Both films are legendary and have spawned sequels and remakes over the years. None… Continue reading
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Episode 730: Chad B. Anderson and Jeffrey D. Guinn!
Episode 730 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 show, John speaks with author Chad B. Anderson and artist Jeffrey D. Guinn about their new multimedia book from… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #388: Silver Bullet
Happy Halloween, everybody! Be sure to stop by the Museum of Schlock tomorrow night. Edwige will be giving out Mary Janes and Bit-O-Honeys for the kiddies! Butch Patrick (TV’s Eddie Munster) will be giving a retrospective talk on Lidsville. Finally, we’ll end the evening with the unveiling of a live Chupacabra caught by a local… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #186: Tiny Mouths of Hell
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 #393: Even Kirby’s Story Must Die
And this, after nearly two months of blogging, is the end of Kirby’s Fourth World saga. While I’ve lamented many ends over the past couple weeks, it’s when Jack was finally able to come back to DC in the 80s to wrap-up as many of the loose-ends as he could in a single graphic novel.… Continue reading
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Episode 729: Schloctoberfest 2026 #4: A Discussion of Machine Gun Kelly, with Jeff Shuster!
Episode 729 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). So far in all our Schloctoberfesting, Jeff Shuster and John King have not focused on either a Roger Corman film or a… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #387: 1408
I used to grow up reading ghost lore books written by Daniel Cohen with such titles as Real Ghosts, Ghostly Terrors, Phone Call from a Ghost, Ghostly Warnings, Phantom Animals, etc. I found them in the nonfiction section of my local public library and my impressionable young mind reasoned that if these books were nonfiction,… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #185: Civics Lesson
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 #392: Kirby’s Miracle Run
For every comic run, there exists an end. For Jack Kirby’s original run of his Fourth World saga, his ending came with the final few issues of Mister Miracle. I talked last week about the end of the original run on The New Gods that left us with Orion and his personal revelation of being… Continue reading
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Video: Amy Watkins Reads “One of My Favorite Video Games as a Kid”
Welcome to Sirens of Verse, The Drunken Odyssey’s own poetry video jukebox. Amy Watkins is the author of three poetry chapbooks (Milk & Water, Lucky, and Wolf Daughter), a graduate of the Spalding University MFA in Writing, and a parent of a human girl. Find her online at RedLionSq.com or @amykwatkins on Twitter. She lives… Continue reading
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