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Episode 427: Bruce Janz!

04 Saturday Jul 2020

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Episode 427 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).

Bruce Janz

In this week’s show, I talk to my friend, the philosopher Bruce Janz, about how to calm our monkey brains in the time of the pandemic, and what the pandemic can teach us about life before the pandemic.

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This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

Scribophile

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

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Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

 

Episode 423: Protests!

06 Saturday Jun 2020

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Episode 423 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).

Alexander PateThis week, my intern, Alexander Pate, and I discuss the Salisbury, NC protests that he has participated in, and discuss this point in history.

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Heavy activity around a confederate statue with an angel.

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

Scribophile

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Consider donating to City Lights Books to sustain it and/or buying a book online from Powells.

Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame Cover


Episode 423 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).

Episode 353: A Discussion of Two Classic French Post-structuralist Essays!

09 Saturday Feb 2019

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Episode 353 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, Vanessa Blakeslee and I survive reading Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author” and “What is an Author?” by Michel Foucault.

Vanessa Foucault

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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Check Out Vanessa’s Books!

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Episode 353 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 349: A Craft Discussion of The Birth of Tragedy, with Vanessa Blakeslee and Mark Pisczek!

12 Saturday Jan 2019

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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

Episode 349 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I croak with Vanessa Blakeslee and Mark Pisczek about the Apollonian and Dionysian origins of storytelling as explored in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy.

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the birth of tragedy


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If you live in Orlando, come hear Mark and his band, Strange Angels, play jazz at the Imperial at Washburn Imports this Thursday, January 17, 2019, 8-11 PM.

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1800 N Orange BLVD / Orlando, FL 32804.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2187842224789407/

Episode 349 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode #210: Ron Cooper!

11 Saturday Jun 2016

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Episode 210 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I interview fiction writer and philosopher Ron Cooper,

Ron Cooper

plus I chat with actor Jeremy Palko, who many of you might recognize as Andy from season 6 of The Walking Dead.

Jeremy Palko

Jeremy Palko is the more handsome fellow on the right.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Gospel Of The TwinSo Pretty

The Walking DeadNOTES

Check out Jeremy Palko’s website here, and So Dark’s website here.

Here’s my video of the Frank Miller event from Megacon.

Johnny Depp’s head made a brief appearance on The Walking Dead.

Check out Jeff Shuster’s first review of one of Tom Selleck’s films.

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Episode 210 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 144: Katie Farris!

21 Saturday Mar 2015

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boysgirls, Jesse Back, Katie Farris, The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant

Episode 144 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I talk flash fiction, mythology, Cosmopolitan, the meeting of graphic and written art, and experimental writing with the fabulous Katie Farris,

Katie Farris-2plus Jesse Back writes about his spiritual, romantic, and personal evolution through Will Durant’s The History of Philosophy.

Jesse Back

Photo by Daniel Parsons.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

boysgirls

The Story of PhilosophyInvisible Cities

BodyhomeNOTES

The music used with “Forgetting Christianity” is “Bleached Beach” by Noveller, a one person band, that band being the amazing Sarah Lipstate.

The music at the start and finish of this episode was “Rising East” and “Chaotica” by The Bambi Molesters, an amazing surf rock band out of Croatia. “Rising East” is from their 2010 album, As the Dark Wave Swells, and “Chaotica” is from their 2004 album, Sonic Bullets: 13 From the Hip.

As the Dark Wave SwellsSonic Bullets

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Episode 144 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 125: Kent Wascom!

09 Sunday Nov 2014

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Episode 125 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I interview the novelist Kent Wascom,

Kent WascomPlus Ian Rogers writes about reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Ian RogersTEXTS DISCUSSED

The Blood of HeavenZen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceNOTES

The music accompanying Ian Rogers’s Essay is The Lovely Moon‘s “And We Danced Into the Night.”

The music in the introduction (“Central Coast Swing”) and conclusion (“Baia”) of this episode was by the immortal Croatian surf rock band, The Bambi Molesters.

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Episode 125 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 55: Bruce Janz!

29 Saturday Jun 2013

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Aristotle, Cinema, Creative Writing, Philosophy, Writing Podcast

Episode 55 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, I talk to the philosopher Bruce Janz,

Bruce Janz

Plus Robert Jacobs shares his Facebook posts.

Rob Jacobs

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Velasquez Juan de Pareja

The portrait of Juan de Pareja by Velasquez.

Resolve

The painting “Resolve” from Keith Harder’s show “Children of Icarus.”

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“Squadron II” from the “Dereliction of Memory” series of digital prints from Keith B. Harder’s “Children of Icarus” project.

Check out Keith B. Harder’s Children of Icarus series here.

Keith Harder's "Shuswap."

Keith Harder’s “Shuswap.”

popeye

The Under-appreciated live-action film of Popeye, directed by Robert Altman, with fabulous music by Harry Nilsson. (I can’t vouch for the Avon novelization, though.)

Leonard Cohen Anthem

NOTES

See our kickstarter campaign to travel to Weeki Wachee Springs to interview Lu Vickers about Florida literature and the world famous Weeki Wachee mermaids. We reached our goal on day 1, but anything over that will go into the show.

Weeki-Wachee-Mermaids

The Drunken Odyssey hath done Rumfest the Ninth.
Matthew Peters, Captain Morgan, and John King were drunken Odyssians on June 21st.

Matthew Peters, Captain Morgan, and John King were drunken Odyssians on June 21st.

For a millisecond, Matthew thought he had found enough rum.

For a millisecond, Matthew thought he had found enough rum.

I need to move quickly.

I need to move quickly.

On July 9th, Mattew Peters will read prose at There Will be Words in Downtown orlando.

Episode 55 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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