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Episode 687: Schloctoberfest 2025 #2 (The Sword of Doom)
On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I delve into an existentially strange antihero story that feels a bit crazy and not entirely complete. NOTES If you’d like to support this show with a monthly subscription that will feature bonus content, please see TDO’s Patreon page. For excellent tattoos in the Orlando area, check out The Tattooed Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #355: Demons 2
We were all headed down to the Monroe Harbour Marina when the exhaustion overtook me. I hadn’t had a good night’s sleep in forever and our all night assault on the gang in the Museum of Schlock. I was hungry too. We stopped at a Long John Silver’s. I got a large Pepsi and the Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #145: A Soul Like a Sheath
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 #342: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 36
Once again, we return to the endless depths of the pile and pull from it something not completely unfamiliar. As you may remember from the several decades ago that leads us to 2019, I had written about a short series that involved the rebellion of the Canadian people against a religiously fanatical US government. In the time since then, that idea went Continue reading
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Episode 686: Schloctoberfest 2025 #1 (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!)
On this week’s show, Jeff Shuster and I delve into a delicate inquiry into the battle of the sexes, from one of America’s most sensitive filmmakers. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES If you’d like to support this show with a monthly subscription that will feature bonus content, please see TDO’s Patreon page. For excellent tattoos in the Orlando Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #354: Demons
The Revenging Manta was wrapping up his interrogation of the mysterious assassin we had chased down through downtown Orlando. The Goose Lord and his gang were expecting a delivery at the Monroe Harbour Marina in Sanford, FL. The delivery was to take place at 3 AM under the cover of night. The delivery would be Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #144: A Bright, Wicked Light
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 #341: Going Slowly Backward Through Time
Although I’ve heard about the character before reviewing one of his series a couple months ago, I can’t get away from thinking about Concrete as a character. And the world wants to oblige my thoughts as, the weekend after I had written about Concrete: Think Like a Mountain, I had gone into one my local shops to look Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #353: Ice Road: Vengeance
“Okay. Okay,” the assassin said as beads of cold sweat rolled down his forhead. “I’ll talk. Something big is coming in tonight.” “More smack to push on the kiddies?” The Revenging Manta asked, ready to cut the assassin’s jugular. “Nah, man. The Goose Lord is waiting on a weapon. He plans to light this place Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #143: Saltings
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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