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The Curator of Schlock #357: City of the Living Dead
I heard a dog howl. And then another dog howled. And then many dogs howled. Edwige awoke, rattled from the noise. “Those aren’t dogs,” the Revenging Manta whispered in my ear. I looked in the rearview window and saw dozens if not hundreds of bandana wearing goons as far as I could see. The Goose Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #147: Imagined Guests
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 #345: Serling Silver
My earliest memories of The Twilight Zone oscillate between waking up late at night and seeing reruns playing on the TV in the living room and the billboards for the Tower of Terror at Hollywood Studios. The series has been on in the background for much of my life and between the imagery and soundtrack, it’s hard Continue reading
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Episode 689: Schloctoberfest 2025 # 4 (A Discussion of Night of the Living Dead with Jeff Shuster)
On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss the 1968 horror masterpiece Night of the Living Dead because how could we not? NOTES Check out the visionary lovely disorienting music of Descartes a Kant! If you’d like to support this show with a monthly subscription that will feature bonus content, please see TDO’s Patreon page. Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #356: Macabre
We waited under the cover of night for the Goose Lord and his gang to make a move at the Monroe Harbour Marina. Since Edwige, Revenging Manta, and I were all dead-dog tired, we had Albert Simmons stand watch and wake us when anything unusual happened. I dozed off and woke up about half past Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #146: Low Windows
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 #344: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 37
The pile as always ebbs and contacts as more is taken away but more is added. And yet, somehow, it is looking a little thinner than before. Will we see it defeated in our lifetimes? Eh, maybe? Even still, there’s always going to be at least a few series I’m neglecting to read until their Continue reading
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Episode 688: Schloctoberfest 2025 #3 (A Discussion of Seconds, with Jeff Shuster)
On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I discuss a 1966 John Frankenheimer thriller that really made us sweat in pleasantly unpleasant ways, like an existentialist episode of The Twilight Zone, or La Dolce Vita as a horror show. NOTES If you’d like to support this show with a monthly subscription that will feature bonus Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #343: Back to Bats
A bit ago, I had taken a look at the first issue of a new run on Batman from Chip Zdarsky and Jorge Jiménez. That’s since come and gone—and is one of the larger bumps in my pile that I’ll need to return to at some point—and now we have another launch of the mainline Batman series that looks Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Repulsion England 1965 Director: Roman Polanski Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, Yvonne Furneaux, John Fraser Roman Polanski’s first English-language film uses the labyrinthine symbolism of cracks and fissures to explore the mind of a deranged woman and, perhaps unconsciously, reaffirm Woman’s pagan association with Earth. When it gets going, Repulsion is full of cracks Continue reading
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