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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #347: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 39
While there are times when looking at the pile that I do see a series that I’ve been waiting to finish piling up, I remember that there are others just beneath that pile that have finished without my noticing. How often has this happened? Hey, man, don’t even worry about that. And why would we Continue reading
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Video: Reaction to Mickey Mouse in Gallopin’ Gaucho
John and Samantha delve once again into the original Mickey Mouse cartoons seeking their literary merit. Continue reading
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The Drunken Odyssey Academy #2 (How to Beat Writer’s Block)
Here is the latest lesson from your totally free and more importantly totally unaccredited MFA program in creative writing. Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #358: Pitch Black
The army of gang members surrounded our van. There was no escape. Two figures emerged through the multitudes of torn jeans and bandanas. The first was Goose Lord’s second in command, a man decked out as the robot sheriff Elle from the movie Starcrash. He had defeated the Revenging Manta the night before, a feat I Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #148: Dancing in the Void
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 #346: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 38
There’s a variety of reasons comics end up in the pile. Some are longer series that I’m waiting to end before I dive in. Other series require important context that I can only get from reading another series first. And then there’s the few that end up there because I didn’t know they ended, partially due to Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #33: A Profile of Miami Book Fair 2024
Miami Book Fair arrives once again from November 16-23, culminating in the street fair weekend with hundreds of author readings. What follows is Rachael Tillman’s reportage from last year’s fair. To get to Miami Book Fair, the Brightline carried me through cities and landscapes I’d never seen despite the ten-plus years living in Central Florida. Between Continue reading
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Video: Reaction to Mickey Mouse in “Plane Crazy”
Here’s the start of a new series over on TDO’s Youtube Channel, on a perennial TDO topic. Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Rosemary’s Baby USA 1968 Director: Roman Polanski Cast: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Maurice Evans, Satan (offscreen) Rosemary’s Baby is the second of Roman Polanski’s so-called “apartment trilogy”. The first is Repulsion (1965) and the third is The Tenant (1976). In each an individual comes to a kind of self-realisation or transformation in a sinister, Continue reading
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Episode 690: Ivonne Lamazares!
Episode 690 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, John speaks with Ivonne Lamazares about her new novel, The Tilting House. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out the upcoming offerings from Miami Book Fair. If you’d like to support this Continue reading
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