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MCClurg’s Musicalia #158: Cradle to Candle
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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Aesthetic Drift #35: The Ataraxy of Influence
by DMETRI KAKMI In 2006 I excavated a troubled past by writing Mother Land, a fictionalised memoir about my family’s life on Bozcaada, a Turkish island. Childhood memories clashed with my life as an editor at Penguin Books. Some weeks I had one foot in Turkey and one foot in Australia. Sometimes, my sanity seemed at breaking point. I doubted the… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #371: It Never Ends, Does It?
It’s 2009 and I’m reading Greg Rucka and a distinct artist begin their run on a character-defining run for Batwoman. It’s 2026 and I’m reading Greg Rucka and a distinct artist begin their run for Batwoman. Sometimes things exist in cycles and sometimes time finds a way to rhyme across nearly two decades. It was that… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Sisters USA 1972 Director: Brian De Palma Cast: Margot Kidder, Lisle Wilson, Jennifer Salt, William Finney Brian De Palma is my favourite American filmmaker. I have been kneeling at his blood-drenched altar ever since I saw Carrie (1976) at a local drive-in. My eternal adoration was solidified with Dressed to Kill (1980) and Blow Out (1981). The only… Continue reading
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MCClurg’s Musicalia #157: Every Tumblebus
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 #370: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 50
So, interesting turn of events in the world as the comic I’ve pulled from the pile that I had been planning to cover since last week is somehow evergreen in terms of some of its subject matter. At times, it’s hard not to look back on certain series and see them almost as hyperbolic in… Continue reading
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Episode 713: Dave Housley!
Episode 713 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 fiction writer and editor Dave Housley about the joys of using writing prompts, the problem-solving of writing meaningfully… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #166: Every Cat a Fandango
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 #369: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 49
The nebulous pile highlights how convoluted time has become. That pile can hide a series I had almost completely forgotten about due to only being sent the first issue—fueling my blood-feud with Diamond further—and falling into obscurity on my bookshelf. But I’ve been clearing some things and, despite reviewing that first issue nearly five years ago, we… Continue reading
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Episode 712: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, with Rachael Tillman!
Episode 712 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, Rachael Tillman and I discuss The Bell Jar, in part 3 of our series on Sylvia Plath. If you are keen,… Continue reading
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