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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #140: Inlapping
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 #337: A Howling Wind
A good detective story is at its best when surrounding a reader with all of the clues they need to figure out the case, but shuffled around just enough that we can’t quite see the big picture just yet. Us, and the detective, scramble to figure out how everything fits together before the walls finally Continue reading
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Episode 685: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath’s The Colossus and Other Poems (with Rachael Tillman)
On this week’s show, Rachael and John read the poems of Sylvia Plath’s first book, step 1 in trying to appreciate Sylvia Plath’s career as a poet and novelist as Plath herself experienced the creation and presentation of that work, not in the light of her mythology and hagiography. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Greg Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #350: Enter the Dragon
The shurikens were flying fast and furious in the direction of the red Ducati. One of them pierced the shoulder of the rider. The motorcycle buckled and swerved as the assassin of the Banana-Man failed to keep control. The next thing I saw was the rider pitching headfirst into a road sign for the Golden Corral, Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #139: A Twang in the Ashes
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 #336: Creating an Ending
It’s been just about a year since I last covered any release from Marvel. Not for any of the original boycotting reasons that I had been working with previously, but simply because there wasn’t a huge amount piquing my interest. But then the previews came through for a series doing something that I always enjoy: providing a Continue reading
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Episode 684: A Pop Poetry Conversation about Megan Fox’s Pretty Boys are Poisonous!
Episode 684 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 yanks a conversation out from behind the paywall to let you know what mischief you might be missing. NOTES If you are in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday, August 26th, Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #335: The Dark Edge of Space
Despite doing this article for over six years now, I’ve spent precious little time writing about Batman. Ironic considering the glut of Batman media that DC continually puts out and my own propensity for Batman-adjacent series to read. But sometimes there’s a miniseries that piques my interest enough that I can’t help but want to Continue reading
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The Perfect Life #87
Dear Dr. Perfect, Do I dare eat a peach? Signed, J. Alfred ———————— Hello Al, Are we talking fresh or canned? I must admit this is a nice break from the standard trove of letters blathering about sexual compatibility, fatal illness, or fashion crimes. I espouse the methodologies of perfect living in all my columns. Continue reading
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Episode 683: Eugenio Negro!
Episode 683 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week, John speaks with the fiction writer, cartoonist, and musician Eugenio Negro about his new novel, Despair Priorities, the long term project, and figuring out what will be deeply satisfying as a writer Continue reading
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