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The Curator of Schlock #356: Dead or Alive: Finale
The Curator of Schlock #356 by Jeff Shuster Dead or Alive: Finale This one don’t make no sense. I met a swarthy gentleman at a bar called The Grizzled Grizzly near the Canadian border. His name is Jacque Baptiste and he says he’ll get me across the Canadian border if I’ll have Edwige, my kangaroo… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #355: Dead or Alive 2
The Curator of Schlock #355 by Jeff Shuster Dead or Alive 2: Birds Gas shortage! Gas shortage! Everyone’s losing their shit over the gas shortage. I still have to figure out a way to get across the Canadian border with my unvaccinated self and my kangaroo compadre. Still, I lucked out. I found a gas… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #354: Dead or Alive
The Curator of Schlock #354 by Jeff Shuster Dead or Alive Not be confused with DOA: Dead or Alive. So I make it to the Canadian border crossing and the guys in the snow fatigues start asking me all kinds of questions. Have I been vaccinated? No. There’s a vaccine for the virus? I haven’t really… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #349: Greyhound
The Curator of Schlock #349 by Jeff Shuster Greyhound Not the bus. Edwige and I were about five days into our road trip to Canada when I realize I had made a horrible mistake. I left my box of Arrow Blu-rays back at Big Tom’s. I have to turn this rig around, but that’s okay.… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #348: The Big Knife
The Curator of Schlock #348 by Jeff Shuster The Big Knife Serious movie time! So Big Tom had a heart attack. The doctor says he’s forbidden from trucking for the next six months. That means there’s no one to deliver that fancy canning equipment for that ready-to-eat salmon salad canning factory up in Saskatchewan. No… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #345: Pulp
The Curator of Schlock #345 by Jeff Shuster Pulp Another Michael Caine turd—I mean gem! Edwige and I made it out that house of horror and into the cold, bitter wilderness. Some nights it went as low as 64 degrees. Cold and hungry with nowhere to turn, I stuck my thumb out, hoping for someone… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #344: Evil Ed
The Curator of Schlock #344 by Jeff Shuster Evil Ed This is a wet one, folks. As I stated last week, Edwidge, my pet kangaroo, was tossed into a hutch filled with fine China by Wally the vampire. With Edwidge down for the count, I knew I was done for. Then I remembered a strategically… Continue reading
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Episode 459: Nicklaus Rupert!
Episode 459 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 episode, Nicklaus Rupert and I discuss the PhD in Creative Writing, the creative and professional benefits of working for a literary magazine,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #341: Madhouse
The Curator of Schlock #341 by Jeff Shuster Madhouse It’s February. I’m watching slasher movies. I escaped a vampire house and lived to tell the tale. Here’s the story: I gave three copies of my spec screenplay called The Taming of the Screw, a kind of My Dinner With Andre, but with vampires. Wally, Celestial, and Jervis… Continue reading
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Episode 456: Lily Brooks-Dalton!
Episode 456 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, Janna Benge and I talk to Lily Brooks-Dalton about the experience of having her novel adapted into a prominent Netflix flick,… Continue reading
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