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Heroes Never Rust #57: Paneling
Heroes Never Rust #57 by Sean Ironman Paneling Ten years ago, I took a Digital Rhetorics course in college. The professor made it a comics class. We spent the semester studying and making comics. When it came to creating our own comics, we were told to draw a grid of panels on a page and… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #57: RIP Bar-BQ-Bar
In Boozo Veritas #57 by Teege Braune RIP Bar-BQ-Bar I was thinking about doing a piece for Labor Day about William Blake’s idea of the creative process as a form of labor embodied by the tension and perfect balance between inspiration personified by Urthona (i.e. the Holy Spirit) and reason personified by Urizen (i.e. Satan) and… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #11: Richard II
Shakespearing #11 by David Foley Richard II I tried, as I re-read Richard II, to uncover why the play so fascinated me as a teenager. Some of the first Shakespearean speeches I memorized were from Richard II. With a couple of drinks in me, I can still give a quite moving rendition of the “sad… Continue reading
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Episode 115: Mailbag 6 (The Sweet Cheat Gone)
Episode 115 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 answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant, Plus Clint Peters writes about how reading Montaigne changed his life. NOTES Check out David James Poissant’s wonderful story collection, The Heaven of Animals.… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #54: The King of Kong
The King of Kong or A Fistful of Quarters (Ape of the Week: Donkey Kong) I hate it when movies give me two titles to choose from. I hate that kind of nonsense! Just pick one! I know. I know. The King of Kong or A Fistful of Quarters is a documentary, so I should forgive such excesses. In fact, this… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #56: Showing the Details and More Details and More Details
Heroes Never Rust #56 by Sean Ironman Showing the Details and More Details and More Details Billy Butcher has been telling Hughie for three issues that superheroes are dicks. We’ve gotten a little bit of a taste for that a couple of times. For example, in issue one, Hughie’s girlfriend was killed when a superhero… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas # 56: The Endless Summer
In Boozo Veritas # 56 by Teege Braune The Endless Summer Not even the day after Christmas was as disappointing as the last day of summer vacation. It doesn’t matter on what day the Autumnal Equinox falls, all kids know that summertime is over the day the new school year begins. Never mind that much of… Continue reading
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Episode 114: Maya Sloan!
Episode 114 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 and ghost writer extraordinaire, Maya Sloan. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Learn more about the Kerouac House here. Episode 114 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #10: Love’s Labour’s Lost
Shakespearing #10 by David Foley Love’s Labor’s Lost I’ve now hacked my way through Love’s Labor’s Lost. This is more than I accomplished when I first tried to read the play a few years back. Then I don’t think I got much past Act II. The Riverside introduction calls Love’s Labor “the most relentlessly Elizabethan… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #53: King Kong
The Curator of Schlock #53 by Jeff Shuster King Kong (Ape of the Week: King Kong) Don’t get too excited. This isn’t the 1933 King Kong, but the 1976 remake. Oh yes. Dino De Laurentis got his mitts on King Kong way before Peter Jackson. For some reason, I had been blissfully ignorant of this motion picture growing… Continue reading
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