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Heroes Never Rust #68: Lex Luthor: The Thin Line Between Good and Evil
Heroes Never Rust #68 by Sean Ironman Lex Luthor: The Thin Line Between Good and Evil In a comic, you know how you can tell who the arch-villain’s going to be? He’s the exact opposite of the hero. – Elijah Price, Unbreakable Superman: For All Seasons #3 is from the point of view of Superman’s… Continue reading
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Episode 126: A Craft Discussion About Horace’s Ars Poetica, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 126 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 about Horace’s Ars Poetica with Vanessa Blakeslee, plus Sam Slaughter talks about the ignominious beginning of Two Drunken Writers Brewery. NOTES At 3 P.M., on Tuesday, November 18, the… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #19.1: More on Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespearing #19.1 by John King More on Much Ado About Nothing Once again, I am rudely commandeering David Foley’s excellent blog about Shakespeare’s plays, this time because his latest post reminded me of Joss Whedon’s remarkable follow up to The Avengers, Much Ado About Nothing. If a superhero movie demands that characterization needs to be… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #65: Asylum (Don’t Go to England!)
The Curator of Schlock #65 by Jeff Shuster Asylum Don’t go to England! It’s late and I have to write a review about a snooty British movie. I’m sorry. I mean snooty British film. Movies are for troglodytes that like to be entertained instead of being depressed while pondering depressing thoughts. I seem to recall… Continue reading
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The Lists #7: 10 Reasons Being on a Cruise Feels Exactly Like an Episode of The Twilight Zone
The Lists #7 by Jessica Cabot 10 Reasons Being on a Cruise Feels Exactly Like an Episode of The Twilight Zone No Internet or cell reception. Thomas Kincaid is considered “fine art.” Infinite Fall-of-the-Roman-Empire-style buffets. The youngest passenger except you is 60. All of the passengers are American. No one on the staff is American… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #67: The Power and Humility of Superman
Heroes Never Rust #67 by Sean Ironman The Power and Humility of Superman Issue two of Superman: For All Seasons covers the summer from Lois Lane’s point of view. It opens with Superman flying through Metropolis over Lois’s narration about Perry White, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Planet, telling her not to believe what she sees… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #67: Lady of the Lakes Ren Faire with the Silvias
In Boozo Veritas #67 by Teege Braune Lady of the Lakes Ren Faire with the Silvias On Friday night as I was finishing my shift at Redlight Redlight I fortuitously ran into Jared and Lesley Silvia who had popped in for a drink. After a couple rounds the conversation took a lively turn. “I can’t… Continue reading
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Episode 125: Kent Wascom!
Episode 125 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 interview the novelist Kent Wascom, Plus Ian Rogers writes about reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES The music accompanying Ian Rogers’s Essay is The Lovely Moon‘s… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #19: Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespearing #19 by David Foley Much Ado About Nothing Why are Beatrice and Benedick so funny? Maybe you can’t appreciate the force of the question unless you’ve been reading a lot of Shakespeare lately, unless you’ve struggled through the sometimes dusty corridors of his humor, laboriously reconstructing jokes and trying to imagine how they landed four… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #64: Asylum
The Curator of Schlock #64 by Jeff Shuster Asylum Robert Patrick vs. Malcolm McDowell Your Curator of Schlock is still stuck in the asylum so to speak. It would seem there are many movies that go by this title. Since it’s still a couple weeks until this year’s Thanksgiving movie, I’ll be reviewing more Asylum… Continue reading
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