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The Curator of Schlock #518: Alligator
Alligator We needed a break while waiting to see if Waldo was going to survive his wounds suffered to him by the Goose Lord and his gang. Luckily, I found an outdoor Italian restaurant that was kangaroo friendly. Edwige, my kangaroo companion from my misadventures in North America, had eggplant parmesan. The Revenging Manta, the… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #113: Sepia Living
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #310: Never Blunders
Last year, I wrote about the first issue of Juni Ba, Chris O’Halloran, and Aditya Bidikar’s The Boy Wonder. This was a first issue that brought us back into the perspective of Damian Wayne and his first bit of time as Robin. While things didn’t go well for him, they were going even less well for the child… Continue reading
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Video: Laura Van Den Berg & Kent Wascom’s Florida Novels
In LAURA VAN DEN BERG’s State of Paradise: A Novel, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author is living in her mother’s small-town Florida home, tracking ominous and eerie changes. Contending with family secrets, spotty memories of her troubled youth, a burgeoning cult in the living room, and her suddenly missing sister, she begins to… Continue reading
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Episode 660: A Conversation about John D. MacDonald
In this episode, John discusses the career of crime novelist John D. MacDonald (1916-1986) in light of a new posthumous short story, “The Accomplice.” In this interview, John speaks with with Andrew Gulli, editor of The Strand Magazine about the rigors and ethos of editing and publishing and MacDonald’s son and literary executor Maynard about… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #517: Creepshow
By the time we made it to the hospital, Waldo was a deathly white. Albert Simmons, the accountant for the Goose Lord, agreed to stay with Waldo as he was the most presentable among us and he owed me for facilitating the eBay auction of my Beanie Baby collection. I didn’t express this at the… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #112: Green Berets and Ham
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #309: The Big Picture
The image of New York City is something ingrained in the DNA of comics. DC’s initial office on Broadway, the main hub of activity in the Marvel universe, and countless other creators can all trace their origins to the city. And in that urbanist center, stories swell. The throngs of people, the iconic skyscrapers and… Continue reading
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Video: Robert Pinsky in Conversation with Campbell McGrath
Former U.S. Poet Laureate ROBERT PINSKY reads from his latest book and discusses the role of poetry in the community. In Proverbs of Limbo, he mines and maps limbal regions both demographic and personal – clashing ways of understanding, personal history and world history, health and illness, freedom and compulsion, intimacy and community, personality and… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi I Married a Monster From Outer Space USA, 1958 Director: Gene Fowler Jnr Cast: Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Ty Hardin, Peter Baldwin I hear you, Gloria! You marry hunky Tom Tryon and you wake up one morning going, ‘Oy, vey, what have I done to deserve this? He doesn’t sleep with me,… Continue reading
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