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Episode 657: Daniel Handler, Griffin Dunne, and Ridley Pearson!
This week’s show collects three interviews with prose writers Daniel Handler, Griffin Dunne, and Ridley Pearson in joyful, fun conversations conducted last November at Miami Book Fair. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Learn more about Miami Book Fair. If you’d like to support this show with a monthly subscription that will feature bonus content, please see TDO’s Patreon… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #108: The Chalky Hands of Fate
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #305: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 20
The pile expands and contracts like a bellows—always adding, always subtracting, but somehow staying the same no matter how many times I chip away at it. Eventually it will diminish. For now, though, it remains ever present as I make my weekly attempts to get my shit together and simply read. But at least I’m not… Continue reading
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Video: Steve Chang’s Farewell Reading at the Kerouac Project
At the end of each residency at the Kerouac Project of Orlando, each writer reads from recent work. Steve Chang was our most recent resident. Head over to YouTube to subscribe to The Drunken Odyssey’s YouTube channel. Go here to learn more about The Kerouac Project of Orlando. Continue reading
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Episode 656: Fire by Fire by Fire with Dianne Turgeon Richardson & Tod Caviness
On this week’s show, John convenes with Loose Lips hosts Dianne Turgeon Richardson for a poetry game in which three friends draw themed cards and read original poems somehow connected to those themes. Alcohol was consumed, too. Jeff Wilfong provided audio support for this lovely outing, one I hope becomes a December tradition. NOTES If… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #513: Shikoku
We were hoping to drop Waldo, our compatriot in our battle against the Goose Lord Gang, under cover of night, but when we emerged from the sewers it was broad daylight. Considering that two members of our group were a ninja vigilante and a kangaroo fitted with boxing gloves. Plus, Waldo was bleeding out all… Continue reading
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McClurg’s Musicalia #107: The Street Is a Dull Knife
Sublime eclectic mayhem. That’s been my playlist project and musical life, one that begins with The Muppet Movie soundtrack and later involves performing hymns, death metal, surf, and bluegrass. I’ve played in theaters, tents, and basements, for multi-stage festivals and squirrel rodeos. I’ve written and recorded music for The Drunken Odyssey. Sublime eclectic mayhem. A warning and a… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #304: Confronting the Pile, Pt. 19
Jazz is one of the oldest American art forms and the one with some of the deepest roots in our cultural landscape. It’s also an art form with fervent adherents that can endlessly debate subgenres, artists, labels, eras, and nearly anything else within the medium. What better way to talk about the history of jazz… Continue reading
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Episode 655: Steve Chang!
On this week’s show, John talks to recent Kerouac Project resident Steve Chang about writing humor with vulnerability, complicating the absurdity of the world through grounded fiction, editing fiction for Okay, Donkey, and other literary urgencies. NOTES Check out Steve’s farewell reading at The Kerouac Project of Orlando. If you’d like to support this show… Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #512: Tomie
Dragging a gunshot victim though a rancid sewer isn’t the most sanitary thing one can do, but it’s all I could think of to save the life of Waldo Luckily, the Revenging Manta, the ninja vigilante of downtown Orlando, had this gadget he created that showed our location in relevance to streets and other locations.… Continue reading
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