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  • Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #17

    Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #17 by Stephen McClurg J.J. Anselmi’s Doomed to Fail: The Incredibly Loud History of Doom, Sludge, and Post-Metal (2020) A music history flavored with memoir, Doomed to Fail could be a user’s guide for anyone interested in metal and its hideous progeny. Along with histories of the guitar and distortion effects in… Continue reading

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  • The Perfect Life #2

    The Perfect Life #2 Dear Dr. Perfect, My ex-wife has asked me to take care of my children during Super Bowl weekend, when she (my ex-wife) plants to recover from heart enlargement surgery. I have been invited to my weed salesman’s Super Bowl party, featuring BBQ, Hooters girls, a poolside Jumbotron, and 45 different strains… Continue reading

  • 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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  • The Curator of Schlock #339: Black Scorpion

    The Curator of Schlock #339 by Jeff Shuster Black Scorpion Joan Severance is Black Scorpion. You had me at Joan Severance.  I’m putting the finishing touches on my screenplay that’s basically My Dinner With Andre. I’ve titled it My Dinner With Vlad. I hope Wally—who is a vampire if I haven’t lost my mind—likes it and that… Continue reading

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  • Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #106: Crafting a Witch’s Story

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #106 by Drew Barth Crafting a Witch’s Story Man, I really hope there’s nothing historically significant happening today. Anyway, let’s talk about witches and comics. There’s likely as many witches in comics as there are X-Men spin-offs, so that would warrant its own weekly article, but today I’m… Continue reading

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  • The Diaries of a Sozzled Scribbler #23

    The Diaries of a Sozzled Scribbler #23 Transcribed by DMETRI KAKMI 18 January 2021 The other night I watched a 1970s British horror film called Frightmare. It should have been called My Psycho Mama Was A Badly Dressed Tranny because Sheila Keith, the thespian playing the cannibal mom, resembled a man in an unflattering wig and… Continue reading

  • The Perfect Life #1

    The Perfect Life #1 Dear Dr. Perfect, Three months ago, I married the most wonderful man. He was completely supportive of me keeping my name after our wedding. My mother-in-law gave us Versace tableware that costs more than my car. The problem is that she had them monogrammed. My husband and I actually share our… Continue reading

  • Episode 455: Elif Shafak!

    Episode 455 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, I talk to the novelist Elif Shafak about the importance of the structure of literary novels, the sublime oddity of the… Continue reading

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  • Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #105: Peeking Into the Future

    Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #105 by Drew Barth Peeking Into the Future So, the highs of a Senate victory on Tuesday night into the lows of an insurrection on Wednesday afternoon. I’ll rearrange some deckchairs on the Titanic for a bit while I keep talking about comics. Anyway, DC’s last event, Dark… Continue reading

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  • Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #16

    Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #16 by Stephen McClurg Dua Saleh: Rosetta EP  (2020) The songs on Dua Saleh’s Rosettasurge through rap, pop, and rock–sometimes in the same track. Considering the namesake of the EP is Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Dua Saleh’s Sudanese-American Musilim background, the record expresses the desires, joys, and challenges of a multi-hyphenated existence. A video… Continue reading

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