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Episode 697: Todd Jame Pierce!
Episode 697 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, John speaks with his friend Todd James Pierce about his research process, his work on Disney artist Mary Blair, and Todd’s wonderful new book, Making Mary Poppins: The Sherman Brothers, Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #352: Die Hard
We were done for. Edwige, my kangaroo companion from my misadventures in North America, and the Revenging Manta, the ninja vigilante of downtown Orlando, were down for the count. The Goose Lord and his gang of malcontents. A whirring in the air caused me to gaze up, and I saw six transport helicopters flying in Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #353: On the Other Side of the War
It’s very nearly Christmas, so that means it’s time to talk about colonization. Last week’s look at Susumu Higa’s Sword of Sand from Okinawa focused almost exclusively on the events of World War II and how the residents of the Okinawan islands dealt with their homes becoming a large-scale battleground. In the second half of the book, Mabui, we see the impact of the Continue reading
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Video: Loose Lips December 2025
The Drunken Odyssey commandeered the Loose Lips oratory series during the tidings of yule and whatnot on December 2, 2025. The readers included Fred Lambert, Rachael Tillman and her deadly horsemen Shawn McKee, Samantha Nickerson, and that rapscallion John King. Tod Caviness hosted the event with much good cheer. Continue reading
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Episode 696: The Kerouac Project of Orlando Book Club Discussion of William S. Burroughs’s Interzone (with Matt Peters)!
Episode 696 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this show, John and Matt Peters continue The Kerouac Project Book Club with a discussion of William S. Burrough’s third fiction manuscript, Interzone, the cliff before one arrives at Naked Lunch. TEXTS DISCUSSED Continue reading
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The Curator of Schlock #351: Oh. What. Fun.
I was about to get my throat slit by a man dressed as a character from a Star Wars knockoff. The Revenging Manta, the ninja vigilante of downtown Orlando, crept out of the van, ready to surrender himself over to the mob to save my skin. He slowly withdrew his sword and dropped it on the Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #352: A War in Two Parts
History tends to focus on the fighters, not on civilians. That gap is explored in the first chapter of Susumu Higa’s Okniawa collection, Sword of Sand. Okinawa is the smallest of Japan’s main islands. The Okinawa prefecture itself has a tenuous relationship with mainland Japan. When the Imperial Japanese Army arrives to the various islands surrounding Okinawa during Continue reading
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Coloring Book Club: Peter Kuper’s Insectopolis!
Almost two years ago, my friends and I gathered to discuss Dune in all its iterations while coloring in a Dune coloring book. Nearly two years later, my friends and I gathered to discuss and color Peter Kuper’s Insectopolis. Peter was kind enough to zoom in to assess our efforts. Continue reading
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Episode 695: Loose Lips December 2025!
Episode 695 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). The Drunken Odyssey commandeered the Loose Lips oratory series during the tidings of yule and whatnot on December 2, 2025. The readers included Fred Lambert, Continue reading
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