June 2017
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The Curator of Schlock #186: Kidnap Syndicate
The Curator of Schlock #186 by Jeff Shuster Kidnap Syndicate And I thought last week’s movie was depressing. I am in a bad way this week. When you start bashing your head into the bathroom mirror and actually grin as the blood trickles from the cuts on your forehead, it may be time to give… Continue reading
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Episode 266: Shasta Grant!
Episode 266 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I talk to fiction writer Shasta Grant, the Kerouac House resident from the spring of 2017, about novel writing, planning and plotting, and finding the life in the words. NOTES… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #185: Shoot First, Die Later
The Curator of Schlock #185 by Jeff Shuster Shoot First, Die Later Crime doesn’t pay! I’ve been criticized over the fact that I choose too many violent pictures for this blog. Hey, I don’t choose violent movies. Violent movies choose me. That being said, I’m willing to switch things up for one night. How about… Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #8: Alienating the Alien
Pensive Prowler #8 by Dmetri Kakmi Alienating the Alien Let’s not mistake this for a review of Ridley Scott’s Alien Covenant. It’s more of a free-wheeling jazz improvisation on what went through my benumbed brain as I watched the vaudevillian pantomime. It’s also full of spoilers. So I recommend you read it and save your… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespearean Film #56: The Merry Wives of Windsor (1982)
56. David Jones’s The Merry Wives of Windsor (1982) My sweet readers, I have broken a promise in watching a BBC Complete Shakespeare film. I well know that fine actors were unable to rescue such productions, but I was tempted by my desire to see more Falstaff, and in particular my desire to see the great… Continue reading
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Episode 265: Todd Boss!
Episode 265 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I talk to Todd Boss, whose new book, Tough Luck, includes a poem sequence inspired by the disaster of the I-35W Bridge’s collapse in Minneapolis, plus Malcolm Kelly reads his poem,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #184: Stunt Squad
The Curator of Schlock #184 by Jeff Shuster Stunt Squad And the crowd goes wild. We’ve covered vigilante movies on this blog before. We know the basic premise. Crime is out control. The justice system is either anemic or is actually complicit in rising crime. An honest citizen stands up and takes the law into… Continue reading
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Episode 264: A Craft Discussion of Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 264 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 episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about Jhumpa Lahiri’s experiment in becoming an Italian writer, In Other Words. TEXTS DISCUSSED Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #183: Meet Him and Die
The Curator of Schlock #183 by Jeff Shuster Meet Him and Die How about I don’t meet him? Who comes up with these titles? Seriously, when I think of meeting someone for the first time, my imminent death isn’t what springs to mind. Then again, I wasn’t living in Italy during the 1970s. Maybe a… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #55: Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight (1965)
55. Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight [Henry IV Parts 1 & 2] (1965) One restraint of most Shakespeare film productions happens to be, alas and fuck, the budget. Often, actors, including the best actors, will willingly work for scale in service of the bard, but the cost of film and catering and the crew and… Continue reading
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