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Episode 669: Shelley Fisher Fishkin!
Episode 669 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, John speaks with the literary scholar, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, who writes lucidly about classic American fiction in readable, important, and enjoyable prose. TEXT DISCUSSED NOTES Check out the new comedy special… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock # 525: Ghoulies II
Seeing Waldo hooked up to that ventilator and clinging for dear life filled my heart with sorrow. Yes, he was a flawed man who defaced the statue of Carl Weathers in the Museum of Schlock, but even that despicable deed didn’t earn him this pitiful state. I left the room distraught, wondering if saving my… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #122: Strolling the Abyss
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 #320: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 27
Earlier this month, I wrote about one part of my pile—the collected editions I need to buy since I can’t get my single issues to complete a series—so now it’s time to move onto the issues I was able to get a hold of from the same series. But this one comes with a bit more… Continue reading
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Replay Episode: Tessa Mellas (2013)
This replay episode 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 replay episode, John talks to to the fiction writer Tessa Mellas, Plus Todd Sentell writes about Huckleberry Finn, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and the Near Death of Literature. TEXTS… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #524: Critters 2
I had lost track of Albert Simmons, accountant to the Goose Lord and his gang, and was aimlessly wandering the corridors of the hospital. By happenstance, I walked across a room with some poor sod hooked up to some kind of ventilator and an IV. Then I noticed a Ziggy tattoo on his left forearm… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia Playlist #121: Secret and Sacred
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 #319: Our Favorite Martian
I remember being 11 years-old when the first episode of Justice League premiered. This was the first time I’d seen many of the heroes that would become staples of my comic reading future: Green Lantern, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash. But there was this teal-colored martian that I didn’t know existed until that moment. He was something I’d… Continue reading
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Episode 668: Margie Sarsfield!
Episode 668 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, John speaks with the literary novelist Margie Sarsfield. In Margie Sarsfield’s debut novel, Beta Vulgaris, a hipster Brooklyn couple take on temporary work at a Minnesota beet farm at harvest time in… Continue reading
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The Curator of Shlock #523: Critters
Albert Simmons, accountant to the Goose Lord and his gang, had dashed after a kid that had taken the last two Snickers Almonds from the hospital vending machine. I rushed after Albert, but just missed him getting into an elevator with the kid and a large man inside. I yelled at him to hold it… Continue reading
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