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The Curator of Schlock #258: Manhattan Baby
The Curator of Schlock #258 by Jeff Shuster Manhattan Baby There’s no baby in this motion picture. We haven’t covered a Lucio Fulci movie in awhile. This is a crying shame that will now be rectified. Italy’s Maestro of Madness deserves an entire wing in The Museum of Schlock. Today’s exhibit is 1982’s Manhattan Baby. It’s… Continue reading
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Episode 350: Eleanor Matthews!
Episode 350 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 speak with the Kerouac House’s fall 2018 resident, Eleanor Matthews about Victorian novels, characterization and plots, and the connections between physical activity and creative writing. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Episode 350 of The… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #257: Brightburn Trailer
The Curator of Schlock #257 by Jeff Shuster Brightburn Trailer Leave Superman alone. Just leave him alone. I don’t typically review trailers. What’s in a trailer, honestly? False advertising? Sure. Remember how excited you got after watching the trailer for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace? Did that movie live up to the trailer? No.… Continue reading
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Pensive Prowler #27: A Modest Proposal for Politicians of all Nations*
Pensive Prowler #27 by Dmetri Kakmi A Modest Proposal for Politicians of all Nations* It is a melancholy truth to those who walk through this great world of ours and see capital cities filled with politicians and their minions, amassing wealth and wanting to live all of their lives on the backs of the working… Continue reading
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Episode 349: A Craft Discussion of The Birth of Tragedy, with Vanessa Blakeslee and Mark Pisczek!
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. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES If you live in Orlando,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #256: Venom
The Curator of Schlock #256 by Jeff Shuster Venom The villain is the hero. In other news, 2 +2 = 3 because Sony says so! I think I have a movie pitch I’d like to send over to the brass over at Sony Pictures: Snickers: The Movie. I think there’s a lot of potential in this… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #85: Permanent Exhibit
Buzzed Books #85 by Drew Barth Matthew Vollmer’s Permanent Exhibit Think of a thought process and all the ways it branches out and around. The thoughts rarely stay in one place or along one singular train of thought for too long. It’s that aspect of his own mind that Matthew Vollmer examines in Permanent Exhibit.… Continue reading
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