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On Top of It #1: The Cube
On Top of It #1 by Lisa Martens The Cube I live in half of a living room in Harlem. My room calls it “The Cube” or, more preciously, the “open-plan Japanese-style abode.” The Cube is roped off by bookshelves and generic Chinese screens, like in massage rooms. Sometimes the room separators fall down, so I have piles… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #7: Shakespeare in Love (1998)
#7: Shakespeare in Love (1998) Sooner or later, we had to talk about Shakespeare in Love. This is kind of the British version of a Hollywood-does-Shakespeare treatment. Joseph Fiennes, brother to Ralph Fiennes, plays Shakespeare. Rupert Everett plays the playright Philip Marlow. Judi Dench plays an imperious Queen Elizabeth. Simon Callow plays the Master of… Continue reading
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Episode 173: A Roundtable Discussion About Edgar Allan Poe
Episode 173 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, we have a roundtable discussion of Edgar Allan Poe. Present for this discussion were Jared Silvia, Shawn Whittington, Dianne Turgeon Richardson, Matt Peters, and Teege Braune, NOTES Check out the… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #106: The Last House on the Left
The Curator of Schlock #106 by Jeff Shuster The Last House on the Left The story is true… It’s October again, the time of year where your Curator of Schlock transforms into the Curator of Shock! Cue the lightning strike! With the recent passing of Wes Craven, your curator feels it’s his duty to pay… Continue reading
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McMillan’s Codex #6: Bloodborne
McMillan’s Codex #6 By C.T. McMillan Bloodborne It is not often cult authors like H.P. Lovecraft receive such a following in today’s world. His stories of cosmic horror and beings so incomprehensible they drive men insane have captivated young and old readers a like. Over the years entertainment media has used Lovecraft as an inspiration… Continue reading
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Episode 172: Michele Roldán Shaw!
Episode 172 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 chronicler of the rambling life, Michele Roldán Shaw, plus Nancy Caronia reads her essay, “Deserving Angels.” NOTES Check out the sweet swag in The Drunken Odyssey‘s fundraiser here. Check out… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #105: The Substitute 3
The Curator of Schlock #105 by Jeff Shuster The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All There’s no substitute for Treat Williams. Yeah, we’re stuck with him again! Look, I like Treat Williams. I just don’t know that he was the best pick to play a hardcore mercenary turned high school teacher. How many hardcore mercenary turned… Continue reading
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McMillan’s Codex #5: The Last of Us
McMillan’s Codex #5 By C.T. McMillan The Last of Us Conveying emotion in videogames is difficult. Taken at face value they are toys, superficial things that do not require deep thought or examination outside of times in which players want to escape reality. The fun factor alone makes most games worth the purchase, but some… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #6: The Fifteen Minute Hamlet (1995)
#6: The Fifteen Minute Hamlet (1995) Tom Stoppard turned Hamlet inside out in his Post-modernization of Shakespeare’s most famous play. The ways in which Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are more about us than about Shakespeare or the Elizabethans is mostly subtle, with the suggestion that modernity is an accident of human evolution, and that our fates,… Continue reading
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