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A pearl by any other name...
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Tuesday Poems: "Church on Sunday" by Ashley Perez, exclusively at Drunk Monkeys

-Matthew Guerruckey, Drunk Monkeys

Church on Sunday 8AM I wake up: brush teeth, wash face, put on my new pajamas and head to the couch for service from the good book: TV Guide. 8:30 AM The Golden Girls choir shimmies and claps about the beauty of friendship. I stand, pretending to know the words. 9AM Sister Ricardo preaches the sanctity and struggle…

Matthew Guerruckey on the sexual abuse that made Don Draper who he is, as revealed in the latest episode of Mad Men.

“Do you like girls?” Mad Men’s “The Crash” and the sad origin of Don Draper “The child is the father of the man.” “Spectacular.” Who is Don Draper? It’s a question that Mad Men has held over our heads for six seasons now, and overtly explored in the aftermath of his divorce from Betty. But though Don may have been intoning “deep thoughts” in the narration of his diary page,...

As The Office ends its nine-season run on NBC tonight, Ryan Roach takes a fond look back and lauds the series for rising from the ruins of a boring eighth year to wrap up in a (so far) satisfying way.

It’s Safe to Come Home to The Office (Includes spoilers for NBC’s The Office, all the way up to—but not including—the series finale). There comes a time in every sitcom's life when the viewers find themselves doing a lot more smiling than laughing, when the characters are so familiar that both the sits and the com feel repetitive, rote...

Donald McCarthy recaps tonight's Game of Thrones for Drunk Monkeys.

--Matthew Guerruckey, Drunk Monkeys

“Kissed By Fire,” or Fire in the Hole Fire is an important part of Game of Thrones’ mythology. The book series is called A Song of Ice and Fire, the dragons breathe fire, Sandor Clegane has a fear of fire, Melisandre is obsessed with fire, and Daenarys cannot be harmed by fire. Tonight, we learned that redheaded women, of wh...

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Check out Gary Bloom's wonderful poem My Brain on the Drunk Monkeys website.

My Brain My brain Is flying all over the place bouncing off the ceiling climbing the walls it just wants to rest finally in one spot like a spitball firmly attached to the ceiling. Gary Bloom grew up in Minneapolis and attended Mankato (Minnesota) State University. He has been writing articles, short stories...