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Video: Amy Watkins Reads “One of My Favorite Video Games as a Kid”
Welcome to Sirens of Verse, The Drunken Odyssey’s own poetry video jukebox. Amy Watkins is the author of three poetry chapbooks (Milk & Water, Lucky, and Wolf Daughter), a graduate of the Spalding University MFA in Writing, and a parent of a human girl. Find her online at RedLionSq.com or @amykwatkins on Twitter. She lives… Continue reading
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Video: Reacting to The Gorilla Mystery!
In “The Gorilla Mystery,” Mickey and Minnie mostly fail to take the escape of a homicidal gorilla seriously because of music, naturally. Please watch this on YT, and leave a comment offering a dramatic monologue from the POV of the mysterious Gorilla. Continue reading
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Video: Stephen McClurg Reads “Stars Fell on Sylacauga”
In this video, Stephen McClurg reads his poem “Stars Fell on Sylacauga.” Stephen McClurg (Episode 473 & 666) composes and improvises in Serenity Dagger, The Abdomen, and other projects. Along with session work for mid-Alabama singer/songwriters, he frequently collaborates with musicians across the state adding bass, guitar, and synths to friends’ recordings. He currently writes reviews for Horror… Continue reading
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Video: Reacting to Mickey Mouse in “The Chain Gang!”
This is, I suspect, the only Mickey Mouse cartoon to depict a prison riot. Continue reading
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Video: Reacting to Mickey Mouse in “The Cactus Kid”!
John and Samantha react to another classic Mickey Mouse cartoon. As in Gallopin’ Gaucho (1928), The Cactus Kid (1930) once again shows Mickey Mouse entering a bar at which Minnie Mouse presides. A lecherous Pete shows up and commits crimes. Continue reading
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Video: The End of the Ub Iwerks Era
Ub Iwerks’s “Fiddlesticks” was released on August 16, 1930, not especially long after a suspiciously similar cartoon, Mickey Mouse’s “Fiddlin’ Around,” released on March 14, 1930. Samantha and John meet Flip the Frog and have … thoughts. Continue reading
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Video: Reacting to “Fiddlin’ Around”
In this cartoon, Mickey is classical violinist who suffers surreal extremes of emotional upset and musical instrument breakage. Is Mickey Mouse crying over Ub Iwerk’s departure from the Disney company? Quite possibly. Directed by Walt Disney and animated by anonymous animators, “Fiddlin’ Around” was released on March 6, 1930. Continue reading
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Video: Reacting to Mickey Mouse in “Wild Waves”
Here’s a new offering from our YT channel. Mickey Mouse is a not-so-great lifeguard in this 1929 vintage cartoon. Continue reading
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Video: Reacting to Mickey Mouse in “The Haunted House”
In this 1929 classic, a wretched Mickey Mouse investigates an old house as he seeks shelter from the rain and finds himself coerced into deejaying a haunted party. John and Samantha get their comedy-horror kicks reacting to this one. Continue reading
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Video: Reacting to Mickey Mouse in “Jungle Rhythm”
The Drunken Odyssey is devoted to writing, generally, and the writing of capital-L literature, specifically, so why are we reacting to and commenting on Disney? In part, because John King can’t help it, and because Samantha Nickerson is indulgent. Continue reading
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