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The Curator of Schlock #102: Blackboard Jungle
The Curator of Schlock #102 by Jeff Shuster Blackboard Jungle Do not bring your jazz records into the classroom! Hey, everybody! It’s Back to School Month here at the Museum of Schlock! And you know what that means? Juvenile delinquency. Let’s not mince words here. We’ll begin with 1955s Blackboard Jungle from director Richard Brooks.… Continue reading
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The Lists #22: Eleven Things Said to Me on Actual Dates
The Lists #22 by Scott Hoffman Eleven Things Said to Me on Actual Dates 1. (Sends me a text to meet him at a bar at 10:30, so I show up.) Me: “Hi, I got your text.” Him: “What are you doing here?” 2. Him: “I met another guy. But it might not work out.… Continue reading
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McMillan’s Codex #2: Witcher 3 (The Wild Hunt)
McMillan’s Codex #2 by C.T. McMillan Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt It’s become a videogame norm ito borrow from film for the purpose of gameplay sequences and narrative. Games often elevate the material beyond what movies can achieve, but like literature, unless you are writing a script, it is not a good idea to imagine your story… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #3: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999)
#3: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999) Shakespeare’s language is sometimes poopooed by naïve readers as too old. I have, as a professor, been told good-naturedly by sniffing students that he wrote in Old English. In fact, Shakespeare is too new for the Middle English of Chaucer. His language is modern. His style, on the other… Continue reading
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Episode 168: Eleanor Lerman!
Episode 168 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. Check out the great perks for The Drunken Odyssey’s fundraiser here. In this week’s episode, I talk to the poet and novelist Eleanor Lerman, plus Nancy Caronia reads her essay, “Quiet.” TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #101: Hell Comes to Frogtown
The Curator of Schlock #101 by Jeff Shuster Hell Comes to Frogtown (Frog People Got No Reason to Live) One would think that after one hundred blogs that your humble curator would be an expert on all things schlock, but even I still get surprised sometimes. Case in point, Hell Comes to Frogtown, the 1988… Continue reading
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McMillan’s Codex #1: A Manifesto
McMillan’s Codex #1 by C.T. McMillan A Manifesto Videogames today are going through a renaissance—kind of. Among the avalanches of annual shovel-ware titles are a few gems. Why, in this time of advanced development technologies are games suffering the same fate of the film industry? Why are there less art and more product? The years… Continue reading
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The Rogue’s Guide to Shakespeare on Film #2: Titus (1999)
#2: Titus (1999) If a postmodern, ahistorical approach to Shakespeare repulsed me in the hands of Baz Luhrmann, that aesthetic charms the shit out of me in the hands of Julie Taymor in her adaptation of the brutal, early Shakespeare play, Titus Andronicus. For example, the campaigning of those who would be emperor of Rome,… Continue reading
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Episode 167: There Will Be Fan Fiction!
Episode 167 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 a fan fiction installment of Jesse Bradley’s prose reading series, There Will Be Words. The There Will Be Fan Fiction featured Teege Braune Jared Silvia… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #100: Summer Movie Mania!
The Curator of Schlock #100 by Jeff Shuster Summer Movie Mania I thought to celebrate my 100th blog entry, I would opine on the various summer blockbusters I had the good fortune (or misfortune) to see this summer. Let’s get busy! Avengers: Age of Ultron No. I’m sorry, but no. This is where I lose… Continue reading
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