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McMillan’s Codex #40: The Order: 1886
McMillan’s Codex#40 by C.T. McMillan The Order: 1886 When criticizing a work of entertainment, one standard practice is often to acknowledge the piece from a basis of style versus substance. Either the title has qualities that transcend superficiality, or the work is more concerned with looking good. Take for example the Watchmen movie: the comic was an… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #26: Strange Brew [Hamlet] (1983)
26. Strange Brew [Hamlet] (1983) Ever since I noticed that Jon Finch, who played the title role in Polanski’s Macbeth, looked like Max Von Sydow, I’ve been suffering from some degree of Sydowmania. The Swedish actor who played chess with Death in The Seventh Seal has recently lent his gravitas to The Force Awakens and… Continue reading
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Episode 207: Jeffrey Ethan Lee!
Episode 207 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 interview the novelist and poet Jeffrey Ethan Lee, plus Heather Whited reads another travel memoir essay, “Masada.” TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Jeffrey’s first appearance on TDO, back on Episode 111.… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #129: The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion
The Curator of Schlock #129 by Jeff Shuster The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (I don’t know if that’s the greatest movie title ever or the worst) We’ve got another Ennio Morricone soundtrack. This man is the unseen hero of the Giallo genre. It’s like these scores are half swinging 60s, half slasher… Continue reading
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McMillan’s Codex #39: Mass Effect 3
McMillan’s Codex #39 by C.T. McMillan Mass Effect 3 Rich Evans of Red Letter Media put it best when he referred to the games following Mass Effect 3 (ME3) as a funeral march. Up until then, you had this sprawling and complex universe for which you could change at will. Your decisions in ME1 carried over… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #40: The Love Song of Johnny Valentine
Buzzed Books #40 by Ben Buckingham Teddy Wayne’s The Love Song of Jonny Valentine Simon and Schuster published The Love Song of Jonny Valentine in 2013 to favorable reviews. Teddy Wayne’s 285-page novel chronicles the tour of tween pop star Jonny Valentine. Valentine, with his trend-setting signature haircut and his bubblegum love songs, seems reminiscent… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #25: Ran [King Lear] (1985)
25. Ran [King Lear] (1985) Shakespearean tragedy can be something of a downer. To give you some idea of the moody fuck I was before the age of 30, this observation had never quite occurred to me. I remember enticing my friend Numisiri to watch the Zeffirelli Hamlet with me and our friend Sam Van… Continue reading
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Episode 206: The Best of There Will Be Words
Episode 206 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 share a recording of latest Best Of show in Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words, in which I was a reader, along with Tom Lucas, Jared Silvia, and Karen… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #128: The Fifth Cord
The Curator of Schlock #128 by Jeff Shuster The Fifth Cord (Did Ennio Morricone score all of these movies? ) Yeah, I know it’s Friday the 13th and you all are expecting me to review some movie about a guy in a hockey mask, but we’re having a post-1980 boycott over here at the Museum of… Continue reading
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