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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Night of the Living Dead USA 1968 Director: George Romero Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Marilyn Eastman, naked undead hordes Your morbid correspondent first saw this milestone in 1969, a year after its initial release. I was eight years old and growing up in Turkey. The film was dubbed in Turkish. Consequently, Continue reading
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694: Anne Waldman!
Episode 694 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s show, John interviews Anne Waldman about her extraordinary new work, Mesopotopia. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES On Friday, December 12th at 7 PM, Mamie Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #359: The Chronicles of Riddick
Edwige hopped toward the Enforcer of the Goose Lord and then stopped five feet in front of him. I’d seen that stance before. It’s what she used once before committing a fatal blow, one she delivered with a flying roundhouse. Edwige made her move, but so did the Enforcer. He brandished a chain whip that Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #350: Circling All the Way Back Around
2021 seems relatively nice compared to the current moment. While we were in a pre-Covid vaccine world, things hadn’t yet reached the zenith of their bullshit. But we were still getting some decent comics out of the year, including the short series The Last Witch that I had taken a quick look at. The years, however, didn’t Continue reading
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The Perfect Life #88
Dear Dr. Perfect, My husband told me he planned to train our labradoodle, which at first was welcome news because Petunia was awfully high-strung. But it turns out he meant he was training her to sing opera. I had my doubts, but he was successful. But now he is training her to sing German opera. Continue reading
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Episode 693: Emily Van Duyne!
Episode 693 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On this week’s show, John and Rachael Tillman interview the scholar and poet Emily Van Duyne about Sylvia Plath’s legacy as discussed in her remarkable Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #349: Jangling Keys
While rivalries between publishers have been a constant since comics began, it’s their points of coming together that feel much more monumental. With the initial publication of Amalgam Comics in 1996 and its fusions of DC and Marvel characters and continuities, we could see how the creators at the time would smash their toys together. Continue reading
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Video: Mickey Mousing Around #4: Responding to the Barn Dance, with Samantha Nickerson
John and Samantha return to bring their literary sagacity to an early cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse’s clumsy feet and a lot of tense rivalry around who will be Minnie’s date at the barn dance. Continue reading
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Episode 692: Fire x Fire x Fire 2025 with Tod Caviness and Dianne Turgeon Richardson!
Episode 692 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). On this week’s show: John concocted a daft poetry game for friends with a body of work substantial enough to withstand randomization of theme and Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #150: An Unwanted Milkshake
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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The Drunken Odyssey is a forum to discuss all aspects of the writing process, in a variety of genres, in order to foster a greater community among writers.
Recent Posts
- Video: Loose Lips December 2025
- Video: Kerouac Project Farewell Reading: Mamie Pound!
- Episode 696: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burroughs’s Interzone (with Matt Peters)!
- The Curator of Schlock #351: Oh. What. Fun.
- Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #352: A War in Two Parts
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