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McMillan’s Codex #17: Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
McMillan’s Codex #17 By Charles McMillan Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 When judging a series, we almost never consider the whole. We pick out the installments we find exceptional, and discarding the rest. Everyone says the Godfather movies are fantastic, but Part 2 will always be better than the first, and Part 3 is… Continue reading
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On Top of It #9: Crap
On Top of It #9 by Lisa Martens Crap As a New York college student who has moved nine times in ten years, I try to live light. I fail, but I try. I love books, I can’t throw out gifts or cards, and well, to be honest, if I find the five of spades… Continue reading
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Episode 183: Mary Karr!
Episode 183 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 interview Mary Karr, and share her talk at Miami Book Fair International 2015, plus I share a Miami Bookfair Event I was in, Tiffany Razzano’s Saved by the Sunshine State.… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #114: Ewoks (The Battle for Endor)
The Curator of Schlock #114 by Jeff Shuster Star Wars: Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (Not to be confused with The Battle of Endor) Was the world asking for another Ewoks movie? No! But we got one anyway. The movie starts with Cindel (Aubree Miller) and Wicket (Warwick Davis) walking through the grassy meadows of… Continue reading
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The Lists #28: Egg Nog Recipe
The Lists #27 by Patrick Jehle Egg Nog Recipe Do ahead: 1. Extirpate all memory of any beverage besides eggnog. 2. Also all hope. 3. Dull gag reflexes using fists, feet. You are now ready to fashion eggnoggal refreshment: 4. Go to a place. Quest, schlep, endure. 5. Obtain nog. 6. Secure the nog. 7.… Continue reading
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21st Century Brontë #1: The Road So Far
21st Century Brontë #1 by Brontë Bettencourt The Road So Far As a child, I spent hours regurgitating cartoon scenarios to my Grandpa long after he wanted me to shut up. I would not stop talking, and I’m sure at the age I didn’t speak because I had some greater wisdom, but because I was… Continue reading
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McMillan’s Codex #16: On the Pill
McMillan’s Codex #16 By C.T. McMillan On the Pill The day Let’s Players are considered comedians is the day I lose what remains of my faith in humanity. I understand the appeal of people like PewDiePie or Markiplier, but a video of someone screaming like a toddler having a tantrum is not funny unless you… Continue reading
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On Top of It #8: Beginning the Getaway
On Top of It #8 by Lisa Martens Beginning the Getaway My grandma owns a small gated community in La Garita, Costa Rica. Since the infancy of my MFA days, I would brush my hair, gaze at the moon, and imagine hosting a writers’ retreat on my family’s property. Plenty of writers have visited us… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #12: Hamlet (1996)
#12: Hamlet (1996) With his Hamlet (1996), the gulf between Kenneth Branagh’s acting and that of his Hollywood peers widens. In the early going of Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Denzel Washington doesn’t quite know what to do. In the early going of Hamlet, Jack Lemmon (like Washington, one of the finest actors Hollywood has… Continue reading
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