2017
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The Curator of Schlock #189: Rambo III
The Curator of Schlock #189 by Jeff Shuster Rambo III Rambo versus the USSR! No blog last week. My MacBook power cord went kaput right before I started the review. This means no Rambo IV review this month. It’s like the fates are trying to prevent me from reviewing Rambo IV, the best Rambo movie. That’s the… Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #9: The Writer at Work
Pensive Prowler #9 by Dmetri Kakmi The Writer at Work W. H. Auden relied on amphetamines, alcohol, coffee and tobacco to keep him at his poetry from 7:00 AM until 11:30 AM every day. Patricia Highsmith, who viewed writing as a compulsion without which life is a misery, applied herself to the novel from three… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #59: Othello (1951)
59. Orson Welles’s Othello (1951) Orson Welles’s Othello opens with some weird music by Alberto Barbers and/or Angelo Francesco Lavagnino that splits the difference between a Modernist march and Gregorian chant during the funeral march of the Moor and Desdemona, with Iago brought along, caged in captivity, like some dolorous triumph. The tragic destinies are… Continue reading
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Episode 270: The Slam Summit!
Episode 270 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 Curtis X. Meyer and Caleb Zachary Matthews about the Slam Nationals that Team Orlando will be attending, the upsides and downsides of Slam Poetry, plus they perform their work!… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #58: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2014)
58. Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2014) Dear readers, I have reached the point where my experience as a reviewer is becoming a liability. It is the responsibility of every production of Shakespeare’s work to both make it new while simultaneously tapping into the essence of what makes Shakespearean drama work. The more films… Continue reading
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Episode 269: A Craft Discussion of Robert Paul Lamb’s Art Matters with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 269 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 Robert Paul Lamb’s Art Matters: Hemingway, Craft, and the Creation of the Modern Short Story. Five years in, TDO finally devotes a show to Hemingway, and… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #188: Rambo: First Blood, Part II
The Curator of Schlock #188 by Jeff Shuster Rambo: First Blood Part II Rambo: First Blood Part II (It’s worth repeating.) Oh, I hit pay dirt with this one. I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again. We don’t do namby-pamby movies here at the Museum of Schlock. What does namby-pamby mean? It’s an… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #46: Measure for Measure at Theatre for a New Audience
Shakespearing #46 by David Foley Passion and Confusion: Measure for Measure at Theatre for a New Audience Measure for Measure has the bones of a simple story. The Duke of Vienna leaves his city in charge of Angelo, a cold-hearted moralist who condemns a man to death for fornication. When Isabella, the man’s sister, comes… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books # 53: Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
Buzzed Books # 53 by Amy Watkins Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History Near the end of my MFA, a new writer friend asked the topic of my critical thesis. I launched into a long and not particularly coherent description of the 20 or so ideas–all inextricably related in my mind–that… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #57: Gnomeo and Juliet (2011)
57. Kelly Asbury’s Gnomeo and Juliet (2011) Nope. John King (Episode, well, all of them) holds a PhD in English from Purdue University, and an MFA from New York University. He has reviewed performances for Shakespeare Bulletin. Continue reading
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