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The Curator of Schlock #363: The Initiation of Sarah
The Revenging Manta, the ninja vigilante of downtown Orlando, and I parted ways. With the Goose Lord and his gang finished once and for all, he had other obligations that needed to be fulfilled. Among them was finding the guy that stole the truck of his good friend, Big Tom, and lost his cargo. The… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #367: Creating a Beginning
Monthly comics is a realm filled with the dead and the continually undying. Every major character death is a sabbatical from which they come back with a new direction and tone or the same direction, but at a different angle. There’s rarely a death so much as there is a passing of the torch. But… Continue reading
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Episode 710: A Discussion of William Harrison’s Rollerball, with Sophia Ferrara!
Episode 710 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. Sophia Ferrara returns to the secret HQ of TDO to chat about the dystopia of Rollerball, as imagined in the film and the short story, which was called “Roller Ball Murder.” Jonathan E and… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #362: Someone’s Watching Me!
As Edwige, the Revenging Manta, Albert Simmons, and I drove away from the bloody scene at the marina. It seems that Albert was the hero of the day after all. Albert had only pretended to betray us so he could go sabotage the mass driver. The Revenging Manta was in on it, his taking a… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #164: Dem Geeses
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 #366: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 48
And so we reach our end. Not of the pile, no, that’s only going to keep growing and consuming all that happens to get near it. Instead, we’ve come to the end of Invisible Kingdom and its sprawling story. But with its end comes something I had hinted at in previous articles that I can finally bring up here and what… Continue reading
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Video: Lianne O’Hara’s Farewell Reading of her Kerouac Project Residency
Lianne O’Hara was the January 2026 resident of the Kerouac Project of Orlando. This is a portion of her reading that occurred at the end of her residency. Continue reading
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Episode 709: Philip Schultz!
Episode 709 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s show, John speaks with the poet Philip Schultz about his wonderful new poetry collection, Enormous Morning. We discuss the self-critical voices that Philip calls the shit-bird, how personas can empower us to become… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #163: A Slight Perverse Expanse
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 #365: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 47
While I had dove deeper into the pile last week than I ever had before, I had only actually gotten to the first part of a larger series. Invisible Kingdom and its vast universe isn’t just confined to a single volume as it ran for fifteen issues, sort of. We’ll get around to talking about those final five issues next… Continue reading
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