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Video: The Drunken Odyssey Academy Lesson #1
Here is the first instructional video from TDO. Leave a comment here or over at Youtube if there is any topics you think I should cover. Selah, John King Continue reading
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Episode 667: Sally Wen Mao and Susan Mauddi Darraj
Episode 667 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this show, correspondent Samantha Nickerson speaks with Sally Wen Mao about her story collection, Ninetails, plus Samantha speaks with Susan Mauddi Darraj about her new novel, Behind You Is The Sea. TEXTS DISCUSSED… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #119: Flooding
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 #317: Running to the Future
I don’t know how many mecha series there are in comics every year, but I always make an attempt to dive into as many as I can. Could it be the residual impact of Pacific Rim on my psyche twelve years later? Perhaps. But it’s also just the allure of giant robots and the suite of stories… Continue reading
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The Perfect Life #83
I have a friend who I feel has resented me for years. The who-needs-enemies-when-you-have-friends-like-that type. Everything finally came to a tipping point, and I confronted her. Every pent-up thing I had been feeling went in a long text. She was insulted, offended, and betrayed that I would dare recommend she examine her tendencies as a… Continue reading
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101 Horror Movie Nights
with Dmetri Kakmi Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without a Face) France, 1960 Director: Georges Franju Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Édith Scob The final minutes of Les yeux sans visage are the most beautiful in the history of horror cinema. A plastic surgeon is determined to perform a face transplant on his daughter Christiane who was disfigured in… Continue reading
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Episode 666: A Discussion of David Lynch’s Ronnie Rocket (with Stephen McClurg)
In honor of the passing of David Lynch, John and Stephen McClurg discuss the screenplay for a legendary Lynch project that was never made, Ronnie Rocket, which is a metaphysical detective story mixed with a Frankensteinesque story about a youngish rock and roll phenomenon called Ronny Rocket. TEXTS DISCUSSED Read Ronnie Rocket over at lynchnet.com.… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #522: Ghoulies
“That little shit stole my Snickers,” screamed Albert Simmons, accountant to the Goose Lord and his gang. “I’ll buy you a Payday,” I said, hoping this could all just blow over and I could find out how my compatriot, Waldo, was doing since he was bleeding all over the place a few hours earlier. “No,”… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #118: O Holy Comma
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 #316: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 25
So, we’ve hit twenty-five of these things. I’ve got to start reading more often for spontaneous fun again. Going back to the original pile, though, there’s always going to be some series that have been dust-collecting there that began as limited series before being picked up for something longer. That happened with Once and Future and Damn Them… Continue reading
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