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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #332: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 33
The exact contours of the pile extend far beyond the image in this article’s header. They reach further into my shelves and horizontal spaces to wherever large amounts of materials can be stacked. They stack just as much in my mind too when I need to wipe the dust off them every week. And this… Continue reading
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Episode 680: Katharine Coldiron!
Episode 680 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this episode, John speaks with the prose writer Katharine Coldiron about what bad movies teach us, about rejecting the idea of guilty pleasures, and the ubiquity of the sublime. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES If… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #135: And the Moon
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 #331: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 32
While trying to ignore the numbers being just barely off, I dive further into the pule to find a series that has been sitting there for close to a year. But this is at least one that I had covered previously, and it’s just as appropriate now as we’re seeing dozens of Christmas in July sales… Continue reading
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Episode 679: Keith Mackenzie!
Episode 679 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this episode, John speaks with the novelist Keith MacKenzie about how to plan an unplannable thriller, and how body horror and comedy and existentialism are awfully close neighbors. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #346: The New Kids
The four of us hopped in the Banana-Man’s van, anxious to speed after the unknown assassin that took his life as he was about to expose the Goose Lord’s plans. I turned on the ignition. Edwige sat up front just like old times, seat belt unfastened. I put the pedal to the metal and off… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #134: Swept in with the Trombones
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 #330: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 31
It’s only looking at the title now do I notice I could have planned things better to have the two numbers match. Oh well, at least I still have the unending pile to dig through for consolation. But the series I’m looking at this week isn’t one that’s unfamiliar to the article as I ended… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #345: Deadly Friend
The Revenging Manta threw a shuriken at the assassin speeding away on the red Ducati, but it was no use. Banana-Man was killed just as he was about to spill the beans on the Goose Lord’s big plans. I was thinking if only we had a vehicle to chase after that assassin when I saw… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #133: Black Obsidian Ruins
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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