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Video: Felicia Day Interview!
For anyone who prefers to listen to interviews with your eyes and ears, here is a video of John’s interview with Felicia Day, which was featured on episode 606 of the podcast. Continue reading
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The Perfect Life #66: Highway Snobbery
Dear Dr. Perfect, Should I become a snob? Mind you, I don’t want to be pretentious. I just feel like I’m becoming allergic to popular taste. My generation feels fuzzy nostalgia for the mediocrities of Ghostbusters and Back to the Future. Maybe it’s Oscar season, with Hollywood bending over backwards to give itself Olympic medals… Continue reading
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Episode 616: A Discussion of George Saunders’s A Swim in A Pond in the Rain, with Rachael Tillman!
On today’s show, Rachael and I discuss George Saunders’s discussion of seven short stories by Russian authors. Since Saunders’s book is the result of teaching these stories in MFA craft courses over multiple decades, this book and today’s discussion simulate an important part of the MFA experience, for those who wonder what that might be… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #451: Retribution
The ski-masked punk howled in pain as he struggled to free his hands from the jaws of the corpse I had on display in the Museum of Schlock. “Help!” he said as the other punks laughed at his antics. The corpse’s head kept bobbing back and forth as he tried to wrench his hand free. … Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #66: Surface Tension
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 warning and a… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #262: An Act of Observance
We all have our guilty pleasure shows and it’s almost always reality TV. There’s something about watching people we don’t know go through their daily tribulations to win prizes or, more often than not, notoriety, that draws us into their worlds. Even if it’s happening in our own city, the act of seeing it on… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights #3
with your host, Dmetri Kakmi Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1931, USA Director: Rouben Mamoulian Cast: Frederick March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Edgar Norton On a recent visit to Edinburgh, Scotland, I stayed in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Georgian terrace. It was grand, to say the least. From my room in the upper reaches of the house… Continue reading
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Episode 615: Diane Seuss!
In this week’s show, John talks to Diane Seuss about her latest collection, Modern Poetry. With bursts of internal rhyme about thorny subjects, Modern Poetry awaits the reader with a spirit of mourning and loss and self-creation, which is, for this reader anyway, joyous. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES The Kerouac House is re-opening its writers residency… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #450: Road Games
At the same time members of the Goose Lord Gang were trying to crucify the Revenging Manta, the ninja vigilant of downtown Orlando, to a wall in the exhibit for Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond, a punk in ski mask was taking a closer look at the corpse I had on display in the exhibit. He stuck… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #65: Melting. Renewal.
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 warning and a… Continue reading
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The Drunken Odyssey is a forum to discuss all aspects of the writing process, in a variety of genres, in order to foster a greater community among writers.
Recent Posts
- Episode 721: A Secret DVD Commentary of Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive, with Chad Coup!
- The Curator of Schlock #375: Evil Dead Rise
- McClurg’s Musicalia #172: The Comb and the Crunch
- Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #380: Mistakes Are Made
- Episode 720: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, with Rachael Tillman!
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