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2017

  • The Curator of Schlock #176: Resident Evil Afterlife

    The Curator of Schlock #176 by Jeff Shuster Resident Evil: Afterlife Still no kung Fu zombies!  Was it too much for Paul W.S. Anderson to cast Donnie Yen in a Resident Evil movie, have him get zombified, so we could have a kung Fu zombie fight scene with Milla Jovovich? Was that too much to ask? We’re… Continue reading

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  • Buzzed Books #51: Being Elvis

    Buzzed Books #51 by Scott Hoffman Ray Connolly’s Being Elvis: A Lonely Life When I was asked to review Ray Connolly’s new Elvis biography, Being Elvis: A Lonely Life, my first thought was, do we need another Elvis biography? His life is already a part of our national myth. His meteoric rise in the 1950s from poverty in rural Mississippi to rock… Continue reading

  • Pensive Prowler #5: Clothes Make the Man

    Pensive Prowler #5 by Dmetri Kakmi Clothes Make the Man Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons fame recently showed her fall/winter collection in Paris. As expected, breathless accolades and stunned summations followed. Even the Met is finally acknowledging the Japanese fashion doyen’s avant-garde creations by putting on a retrospective of her ground-breaking designs; and I, of… Continue reading

  • Episode #251: Ephraim Scott Sommers!

    Episode 251 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 the poet Ephraim Scott Sommers. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Litlando 2017 will take place on March 25th at The Gallery at Avalon Island. Buy tickets now here. Check out Ephraim’s… Continue reading

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  • The Curator of Schlock #175: Resident Evil Extinction

    The Curator of Schlock #175 by Jeff Shuster Resident Evil: Extinction It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.  It would seem that the zombie apocalypse that I thought was averted at the end of Resident Evil: Apocalypse is in full swing at the beginning of Resident Evil: Extinction. The evil Umbrella… Continue reading

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  • Episode 250: Loose Lips Live Show!

    Episode 250 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 share a recording of Loose Lips, the monthly current events literary thing hosted by the inestimable Tod Caviness, with special guests Josh Dull, Racquel Henry, Darlyn Finch Kuhn, and… Continue reading

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  • The Curator of Schlock #174: Resident Evil Apocalypse

    The Curator of Schlock #174 by Jeff Shuster Resident Evil: Apocalypse More zombies, more mutant dogs, and more Milla Jovovich!   Yeah, you heard right. Resident Evil month continues here at the Museum of Schlock, this time with more zombies, more mutant dogs, and more Milla Jovavich. Two out of three ain’t bad. Of course, I am… Continue reading

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  • The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #48: Haider [Hamlet] (2014)

    48. Vishal Bharwaj’s Haider [Hamlet] (2014) After having recently revisited Gus Van Sant’s My Own Private Idaho with the delightful recognition that the film was even better than I had remembered, I decided to test my luck with another loose adaptation of Shakespeare. In an earlier review, I covered Vishal Bharwaj’s Omkara, an Othello imagined in a wild country… Continue reading

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  • Episode 249: Ashley Inguanta!

    Episode 249 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 the poet Ashley Inguanta, plus Daniela Chamorro writes about how Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street changed her life. TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 249 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast… Continue reading

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  • The Curator of Schlock #173: Resident Evil

    Resident Evil Why? Because this blog needs more zombies! So it became apparent to me upon watching the trailer for The Zookeeper’s Wife that the film is actually about the Nazis invading Poland. Who knew? I hope the movie ends with the zookeeper’s wife leading an army leopards, baboons, and giraffes against the occupying army. That would… Continue reading

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