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Like a Geek God #6: These Childish Things
Like a Geek God #6 by Mark Pursell These Childish Things Geeks have it over Muggles in one very important area: we are highly susceptible to wonder. Wonder is something I think we all, geek or not, can remember from moments in our childhood, particularly as they pertain to the pop culture we were being… Continue reading
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Episode 66: Kalliope Lee!
Episode 66 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 novelist Kalliope Lee, plus Scott Hoffman talks about John Demos’s The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Until Tuesday, September 17th,… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #6: Death Wish 3
The Curator of Schlock #6 by Jeffrey Shuster Death Wish 3 (Mr. Vigilante) This is the one we’ve all been waiting for. We languished through the earnest sentimentality of Death Wish 1 and the sleazy sleaziness of Death Wish 2. Now we’ve arrived at Death Wish 3, the masterpiece of the vigilante genre. Its influence… Continue reading
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Loading the Canon #5: Sensing the Artist
Loading the Canon #5 by Helena-Anne Hittel Sensing the Artist I’m an art historian. I study art. I am expected to know what the work is called, what it is made of, who made it, when they made it, and (depending on the professor) maybe even the dimensions of said work. In short, if it… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #6: Women in Superhero Comics
Heroes Never Rust #6 by Sean Ironman Women in Superhero Comics I’m a white, heterosexual male. As such, I never really paid attention to how minorities are portrayed in superhero comics. I’m sure that sounds bad, but let’s be honest. Portrayals of minorities was never an issue for me because I was well-portrayed. And when… Continue reading
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Gutter Space #6: Art Spiegelman’s Maus
Gutter Space #6 by Leslie Salas The Mice Behind the Masks: Art Spiegelman’s Maus Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a framed narrative graphic novel in which the relationship between the author, Artie, and his father, Vladek, is exposed and intertwined with the author’s attempt to capture and relate his father’s experience as a persecuted Jew during… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #6: Staggering Down the Halls of Matriculation
In Boozo Veritas #6 by Teege Braune Staggering Down the Halls of Matriculation The dichotomies between my own straight-laced lifestyle and juvenile obsession with the Beat Generation was not lost on me when I was a young man. Ever eager to give the middle finger to conformity, I wore colorful scarves to high school and read… Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #5: Geek is the New Cool
Like a Geek God #5 by Mark Pursell Geek is the New Cool My husband is an elementary school teacher. You can imagine the sort of anecdotes he brings home after spending every day teaching a formative generation born with smartphones in their hands. One thing that particularly struck me, however, happened last year. A… Continue reading
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Episode 65: Orlando Shakespeare Theater!
Episode 65 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 three of the stars of Orlando Shakespeare Theatre’s production of The Taming of the Shrew. Geoffrey Kent (Petruchio) And Deanna Gibson (Kate) John Ahlin (Baptista) And J. Bradley… Continue reading
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