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Episode 85: Erotic Poetry Night 2
Episode 85 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week, I present our first live show of the year, from our night of Erotic Poetry, as either a prelude or an antidote to Valentine’s Day, according to taste. NOTES The Heaven of… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #28: Comics = Text + Art
Heroes Never Rust #28 by Sean Ironman Comics = Text + Art Comics undergo cycles just like any other creative medium. For a decade or so, a certain style will be in vogue, and then another style will become popular. In the early 1990s, art-driven comics were the thing. Then, the industry had some dark years… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #28: Ecce Junky
In Boozo Veritas #28 by Teege Braune William S. Burroughs: Ecce Junky This past Wednesday was the one-hundredth birthday of the novelist madman William S. Burroughs. As enigmatic as he is significant, Burroughs presence has permeated American art, literature, and music without ever being fully understood even by those who have most vehemently championed him. As… Continue reading
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Episode 84: Rich Millman of Carlton Melton!
Episode 84 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I talk to the musician Rich Millman from the band Carlton Melton, Plus Kelsey Liebenson-Morse writes about reading Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES The Florida Writers’ Conference goes from… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #27: Starcrash
The Curator of Schlock #27 by Jeffrey Shuster Starcrash (Effects Matter!) It’s Space Opera month here at The Museum of Schlock, and by Space Opera I mean Star Wars rip-offs from the 70s and 80s. Still, a movie half as good of Star Wars is still good, right? Exhibit A is 1978’s Starcrash starring Caroline… Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #16: I See Naked People
Loading the Canon #16 by Helena-Anne Hittel I See Naked People If you were to take all of your clothes off, it shouldn’t really surprise you what you’d see. You know by now what a naked man or woman looks like. Given this, why do people freak out over seeing another naked human being in… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #27: God Loves, Man Kills
Heroes Never Rust #27 by Sean Ironman God Loves, Man Kills In the 1980s, Marvel Comics began to push for graphic novels, a longer, book-length comic for the serious fan. The fifth book was X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills (one of my favorite titles for a comic book). The X-Men was becoming Marvel’s biggest hit,… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #27: Some Velvet Morning
In Boozo Veritas #27 by Teege Braune Some Velvet Morning In the months after I first heard “Some Velvet Morning” I listened to the Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra duet easily hundreds of times. Unquestionably psychedelic in nature while existing firmly outside of the genre of rock ‘n roll, the song is simultaneously timeless and an… Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #17: Agents of SHIELD Mid-Season Report Card
Like a Geek God #17 by Mark Pursell Agents of SHIELD Mid-Season Report Card The thing you need to know before we starting talking about Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD is this: I love Joss Whedon. No, listen. I’m a hardcore Whedonite. I first fell in love with Joss Whedon’s storytelling vision because of his short-lived… Continue reading
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Episode 83: Lynn Waddell!
Episode 83 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I talk to the journalist Lynn Waddell, Plus D. S. Jones writes about how the Charles Bukowski’s Post Office changed his life. NOTES In the recording of this week’s show, I… Continue reading
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