Episode 308 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, the format is quite different.
Episode 308 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
Hahahaha! What an excellent episode—I, for one, learnt more about Shrek and its sequels than I thought I would do at any time, evere, in what will one day be seen as my recorded life. I’m not sure wher it firs in to the whole TDO oeuvre, because of frequent use of the R-word, but I think ‘relatable’ is a perfectly legitimate chunk of the terminology of literary analysis or film criticism.
Unfortunately, we wer nterrupted before we could find out why Shrek is better than Lord of the Rings. I’m prepared to grant you that they’re better than the Hobbit movies, but LOTR? We—I mean, the totality of humanity—are clearly overdue for a comparative analysis of Fiona and Tauriel. Gynaecofocal intrusions on an androcentric Campbellian narrative? Or some marketing-driven gender-based instantiation of the bloody Bechtel test? I don’t know…I need a cup of tea.
I’ve had to move in the last few days, and I was feeling very down about the whole thing, so, slumped in the armchair with all the detritus of changing addresses, I thought ‘What will cheer me up?’. I listened to this episode twice in a row and it did the trick. I’m feeling much better now.
Thanks to both Kings for brightening up a bad business.
I am glad to have provided even the smallest light. Do hang in there, my friend.
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