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  • Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #133: Broth-y Comics

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #133 by Drew Barth Broth-y Comics It’s been a while since I last talked about food in comics, so let’s change that. Ramen overlaps with comics in a weird way as something ubiquitous, but still perceived as cheap and for a very specific crowd. That’s why it’s so… Continue reading

  • Episode 482: A Discussion of Introducing Cultural Studies, with Leslie Salas!

    Episode 482 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s show, Leslie Salas and I discuss Ziauddan Sardar and Borin Van Loon’s Introducing Cultural Studies. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO Listeners can get… Continue reading

  • The Curator of Schlock #363: Crimes of Passion

    The Curator of Schlock #363 by Jeff Shuster Crimes of Passion Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins, together again for the first time. Hooray. Canada will start letting in fully vaccinated citizens and permanent residents of the United States beginning on August 9th. Good thing I got my first dose a few weeks back and will… Continue reading

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  • Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #132: Peeling the Layers

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #132 by Drew Barth Peeling the Layers According to the cinematic touchstone, Shrek, onions have layers. They can be peeled until the core is reached. But then no one wants to talk about the skin. But we should consider the onion skin, particularly Edgar Camacho’s Onion Skin. Broken up into… Continue reading

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  • Episode 481: Catherine Raven!

    Episode 481 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On this episode, I talk to biologist Catherine Raven about her wonderful new memoir, Fox & I: An Uncommon Friendship. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES TDO Listeners… Continue reading

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  • The Curator of Schlock #362: The Zero Boys

    The Curator of Schlock #362 The Zero Boys From zeroes to heroes in no time flat.  Edwige and I have been exploring this abandoned mall somewhere on the outskirts of Pittsburgh. There was once a Spencer’s Gifts in this mall. Do any of you remember Spencer’s Gifts? I bought my first whoopee cushion at Spencer’s… Continue reading

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  • Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #131: Which Witch

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #131 by Drew Barth Which Witch The idea of the witch has changed greatly in comic fiction over the past fifty years. From the wart-nosed villains in any adventure and horror comic to a contemporary symbol of magic that can sidle more on the chaotic neutral side of… Continue reading

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  • The Perfect Life #20: Maintaining Privacy in Our Thing

    The Perfect Life #20 Maintaining Privacy in Our Thing Dear Dr. Perfect, My granddaughter, who works for me in my business, has sanctimoniously informed me that she (as a millennial) greatly prefers to communicate by text rather than telephone calls, which she deems intrusive, and that her feelings need to be considered by the entire… Continue reading

  • Episode 480: Tanya Grae!

    Episode 480 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On this episode, I talk to the poet Tanya Grae about finding surprises in poetry, losing one’s hearing at the Hollywood Sportatorium, the solitude of… Continue reading

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  • The Curator of Schlock #361: We Are the Flesh

    The Curator of Schlock #361 by Jeff Shuster We Are the Flesh We are not amused.  Edwige and I have looked for a place to hide. We’re outlaws now. I found an abandoned mall on the outskirts of Pittsburg. I’m thinking starting a campfire where the water fountain used to be. I’m going to roast… Continue reading

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