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The Curator of Schlock #152: Casino Royale
The Curator of Schlock #152 by Jeff Shuster Casino Royale (The movie is shit.) Oh, I’m sorry. No clever sub-head this week. I dove down a rabbit hole that I should have steered clear away from. What am I getting at? Where do I start? You know, I tend to view the cinema of the… Continue reading
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Aesthetic Drift #13: Young Kid in a Voting Booth
Aesthetic Drift #13 by Brett Pribble Young Kid in a Voting Booth Alone in my college apartment, satirical versions of Al Gore and George Bush reenacted the first debate of the 2000 election on Saturday Night Live. Will Farrell played Bush as a clueless redneck, and Darrel Hammond’s take on Gore was rude and robotic.… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #45: In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe
Buzzed Books #45 by Shawn Whittington In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe For those who savor Gothic lit, this anthology satisfies. Edited by scholar Leslie S. Klinger, this collection curates classical chilling tales, often of a dark Victorian flavor, written by literary authors such as Oscar Wilde, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, H. P. Lovecraft, and… Continue reading
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Episode 220: Sam Slaughter!
Episode 220 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 to my friend, fiction writer Sam Slaughter, who I met back in 2014, when he wrote a little something about Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son for the show. We talk about his… Continue reading
A Brief History of World Travel (Part 8): Notes on Baltimore, Bastard Out of Carolina, Denis Johnson, Dorothy Allison, Florida Man, God in Neon, Jesus’ Son, Mark Powell, Orlando, Sam Slaughter, The Bambi Molesters, The Young Widower’s Handbook, There Will Be Words, Tom McAllister, When You Cross That Line -
The Curator of Schlock #151: The Quiller Memorandum
The Curator of Schlock #151 by Jeff Shuster The Quiller Memorandum (His name is Quiller and he’s got a memorandum.) There’s a scene in the beginning of The Quiller Memorandum where a couple of English gentleman are eating lunch at a fancy restaurant. One is eating pheasant and declares that it’s rather good. It dawned… Continue reading
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McMillan’s Codex #52: On The Real Silent Hill Experience
McMillan’s Codex 52 by C.T. McMillan On The Real Silent Hill Experience Only a few videos on YouTube can claim to be documentaries. Hundreds of thousands of videos reviewing entertainment media could be classified as insightful if the focus were not on theatrics and a notion that audiences have short attention spans. Not often enough do… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #44: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II
Buzzed Books #44 by Chuck Cannini Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II Even as I walked through New York City’s streets in the rain without an umbrella, I may as well have received my acceptance letter to Hogwarts. Seven hours and a rendition of Macbeth, which I reviewed earlier this week… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #36: Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
36. Charlton Heston’s Antony and Cleopatra (1972) Antony and Cleopatra is Shakespeare’s continuation of sorts of Caesar. The triumvirate of Roman leaders, Octavius Caesar, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Marc Antony is on the verge of breaking with Marc Antony since he has lapsed in his Roman duties and gone native with lust in Egypt with Cleopatra. Pompey,… Continue reading
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Episode #219: Loose Lips Live Show!
Episode 219 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 Loose Lips, the monthly current events literary thing hosted by the inestimable Tod Caviness. The line up on that evening was Ryan Rivas, my awesome… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #150: In Like Flint
The Curator of Schlock #150 by Jeff Shuster In Like Flint (I give up. He’s better than Bond.) Okay. Well…maybe that’s an overstatement. Tonight’s feature, In Like Flint, ends with Derek Flint (James Coburn) shooting off into outer space. In Like Flint came out in 1967. Moonraker came out in 1979. This means that Derek Flint made it into space a full twelve… Continue reading
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