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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #338: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 35
Did you expect the pile to be so easily finished? Even though it’s been a month since I last dove into it, that doesn’t keep the series from piling up further and further. But this is one that’s been sitting in the pile for a few years now—it’s been nearly four years since I looked at the… Continue reading
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Video: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burroughs’s Queer
Here is John King speaking with Matt Peters about William S. Burroughs’s second novel. Check out The Kerouac Project of Orlando. Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Onibaba Japan 1964 Director: Kaneto Shindō Cast: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Taiji Tonoyama A film begins the moment the credits appear on screen. As we see with Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) and Scorsese’s Cape Fear (1991), the conception of the opening credits is important. You don’t talk; you don’t reach for popcorn. You don’t even… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #351: Tremors
The assassin of the Banana-man moaned through his helmet as the Revenging Manta dragged him from the destroyed Golden Corral sign. No sooner did I pull up that Edwige hopped on over to the scene. Simmons and I got out of the car and rushed over. The ninja vigilante removed the helmet to reveal a… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #140: Inlapping
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #337: A Howling Wind
A good detective story is at its best when surrounding a reader with all of the clues they need to figure out the case, but shuffled around just enough that we can’t quite see the big picture just yet. Us, and the detective, scramble to figure out how everything fits together before the walls finally… Continue reading
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Episode 685: A Discussion of Sylvia Plath’s The Colossus and Other Poems (with Rachael Tillman)
On this week’s show, Rachael and John read the poems of Sylvia Plath’s first book, step 1 in trying to appreciate Sylvia Plath’s career as a poet and novelist as Plath herself experienced the creation and presentation of that work, not in the light of her mythology and hagiography. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Greg… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #350: Enter the Dragon
The shurikens were flying fast and furious in the direction of the red Ducati. One of them pierced the shoulder of the rider. The motorcycle buckled and swerved as the assassin of the Banana-Man failed to keep control. The next thing I saw was the rider pitching headfirst into a road sign for the Golden Corral,… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #139: A Twang in the Ashes
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #336: Creating an Ending
It’s been just about a year since I last covered any release from Marvel. Not for any of the original boycotting reasons that I had been working with previously, but simply because there wasn’t a huge amount piquing my interest. But then the previews came through for a series doing something that I always enjoy: providing a… Continue reading
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The Drunken Odyssey is a forum to discuss all aspects of the writing process, in a variety of genres, in order to foster a greater community among writers.
Recent Posts
- Episode 710: A Discussion of William Harrison’s Rollerball, with Sophia Ferrara!
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