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Heroes Never Rust #84: Watchmen, and Flashbacks
Heroes Never Rust #84 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: Flashbacks Flashbacks are tricky. A story needs to move forward, not backward. But. Sometimes to move forward we have to move backward. Readers need information for certain scenes and characters to have resonance. At times, events that occurred before the story’s present are necessary. They may be… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #22: We Take Me Apart
Buzzed Books #22 by Ashley Inguanta We Take Me Apart “In a different version it was not three beautiful maidens but Mother and you and me and in this version as in all versions happiness was her hoped for ever after then I came along and in this version happiness was her hoped for ever… Continue reading
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Episode 142: Lisa Roney!
Episode 142 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 catch up with Lisa Roney, who has just released her creative writing textbook, Serious Daring, and a poetry chapbook, The Best Possible Bad Luck, plus, Liz Haberkorn writes about Kurt… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #79: Happy Birthday to Me
The Curator of Schlock #79 by Jeff Shuster Happy Birthday to Me No. No. It’s not my birthday. Happy Birthday to Me is this week’s featured exhibit in the Museum of Schlock. With another impending Friday the 13th, I’ve decided to review slasher movies all month. I guess I’m going for a holiday theme so… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #83: World Building in Watchmen
Heroes Never Rust #83 by Sean Ironman Watchmen: World Building Fictional stories take place in a fictional world. Even if that world is supposed to be our own, the story takes place in a world that does not exist. For a story to succeed, the reader must buy into the world. Obviously, the closer the… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #30: Macbeth
Shakespearing #30 by David Foley Macbeth “The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,” says Banquo of the weird sisters, and this disconcerting geologic claim captures the nightmare quality of Macbeth. Like a nightmare, the play inverts the relationship between the solid and the insubstantial: the world we think we know becomes shot through with… Continue reading
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Episode 141: Mixtape #3 (Misadventures in Sobriety)
Episode 141 of the world’s greatest writing podcast is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk to myself and share some music. NOTES Check out Orlando Shakes’ delightful production of Merry Wives, which runs from February 4 to March 7, 2015 (my full review is here), and also see its intimate… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #78: Harry Brown
The Curator of Schlock #78 by Jeff Shuster Michael Caine is Harry Brown Michael Caine is ABOVE THE LAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Vigilante Month: International Edition continues with a trip to merry old England, only old England ain’t so merry. It seems like a bunch of hoodlums have taken over the city streets and there’s nothing the coppers… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #82: Epilogues: Your Last Shot
Heroes Never Rust #82 by Sean Ironman Epilogues: Your Last Shot The fourth and final issue of Nemesis features a great deal of violence as the police chief eventually overcomes and kills Nemesis. The villain dies with three pages remaining for the comic. These pages fast-forward years after the Nemesis encounter and acts as an… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #20.1: Another Interlude, This Time Out of Sequence
Shakespearing #20.1 by John King Another Interlude, This Time Out of Sequence A Review of Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s 2015 production of Henry V One of the ironies of the current season of offerings at Orlando Shakespeare Theater is that in the spacious Margeson Theater, Merry Wives features the hijinks of Falstaff in a 1950s domestic… Continue reading
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