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21st Century Brontë #19: Where I Write
21st Century Brontë #19 by Brontë Bettencourt Where I Write Whenever I need to write, I go to this coffee shop named Vespr. The lighting is dim enough to give me the illusion of privacy, but the ambient noise of the patrons keeps me focused. I can’t focus in complete silence. At the very minimum… Continue reading
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McMillan’s Codex #38: Mass Effect 2
McMillan’s Codex #38 By C.T. McMillan Mass Effect 2 Roleplaying games come in all shapes and sizes. Elder Scrolls and Fallout are technical with player interactivity in mind, while Kingdom Hearts 2 and the like are thematic with an emphasis on linearity. A few titles achieve a balance of the two where you have depth-full interactivity… Continue reading
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Episode 205: A Craft Discussion of Wallace Stevens’s “The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words” with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 205 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 talk about Wallace Stevens’s “The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words” with Vanessa Blakeslee, Plus Tom McAllister reads his essay, “A Brief History of World Travel, Part 1: Notes on… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #127: Don’t Torture a Duckling
The Curator of Schlock #127 by Jeff Shuster Don’t Torture a Duckling I’m a free American. I’ll do what I want Am I the only one who caught this season of Grantchester on Masterpiece Mystery? The show is about an Anglican priest who helps the police solve crimes in a small village near Cambridge. He’s also in love… Continue reading
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Episode 204: Star Wars Day Bonus Episode
Episode 204 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 throw myself into the Star Wars universe from a writer’s perspective. NOTE: This show was not authorized by Lucasfilm or any other company. NOTES Learn more about Marcia Lucas’s influence… Continue reading
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McMillan’s Codex #37: Trailer Analysis of Infinite Warfare
McMillan’s Codex #37 By C.T. McMillan Trailer Analysis: Infinite Warfare Rather than film myself making faces and telegraphed gasps, I want to try something other than a conventional trailer reaction. I do not mean to sound like an arrogant snob, but I have played and seen enough games to the point I can divine story and… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #24: Julius Caesar (2012)
#24. Julius Caesar (2012) I am not fond of color-blind casting, wherein a director expects an audience to ignore the races of a production’s actors and imagine the story happening in a sort of bizarrely post-racial context that did not exist in the real world in Shakespeare’s original settings. At the same time, the sense… Continue reading
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Episode 203: Campbell McGrath!
Episode 203 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 poet Campbell McGrath about XX, his tenth book of poetry. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES All 7 panels from Litlando 2016 are now available on youtube here. Read Amy Watkins’s review… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #126: Captain America II: Death Too Soon
The Curator of Schlock #126 by Jeff Shuster Captain America II: Death Too Soon How did they get Christopher Lee to star in a TV movie? So it’s just one more week until Captain America: Civil War, one more week until the Capsicle gets the taste slapped out of his mouth by the Invincible Iron… Continue reading
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21st Century Brontë #17: Unwind, Part 2
21st Century Brontë #17 by Brontë Bettencourt Unwind, Part 2 So Alex asked me for clarification on why last week, I stated that I’d prefer to see the Unwind series as a TV show rather than a set of movies. Also, I learned that a movie is indeed in the works for Unwind. The script… Continue reading
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