PIRATING THE PIRATES
by Norman Spinrad The Death Spiral of the Publishing Dea...
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DONALD TRUMP AGENT OF SATAN
ELECT YOUR PEOPLE'S POLICE by Norman Spinrad If something isn't done, and done fast, a civil war in the United States is just a shot or a Molotov Cocktail away. But how and by who? If there is one American who could stand up before the protesters and be listened to it is surely the one and only former President of the United States, Barack Obama. Live before the largest crowd possible and of course well televised. What should he say? He should speak the hard truth to the leaderless protesters that what they are doing is counterproductive to their own confusion of diverse and general causes which if even possible would take decades of legislation to accomplish. What is needed immediately is a strong significant and reachable demand. Demand that the head of all police departments in the United States--cities, towns, st...
THE ABNORMAL NEW NORMAL
THE 21ST CENTURY SHAMAN
THE 21ST CENTURY SHAMAN Alternate Medicines and the Scientific Method by Norman Spinrad Written over a decade ago as a proposal for a book that never got written but all too pertinent to the era of the coronavirus There are many medical systems on this planet, some of them ancient, some of them new, more of them that not based on metaphorical systems. Only “Western” or “alliopathic” medicine is based on rigorous science. But many of the traditional non-western systems cure some conditions cure some conditions but not others. Many of these cures work in practice, but not in theory. That is they do work, but not for the reasons the theory behind them conte...
THE POWER OF DIRTY WORDS
The New York Post September 25, 2012 THE POWER OF DIRTY WORDS--Illustrated!!! by Norman Spinrad In memorium: Lenny Bruce Fuck, shit, piss, cunt. Have I gotten your attention? Of course I have! These words have that magic power. As we all know, fuck, shit, piss, and cunt are the rock bottom basic “dirty words.” Neither the New York Times nor any other establishment publication will print them. They may not be uttered on broadcast television...
GAY OR STRAIGHT, MARRIED OR NOT, ALL COUPLES ARE MATES!
GAY OR STRAIGHT, MARRIED OR NOT, ALL COUPLES ARE MATES! by Norman Spinrad A while back, Dona Sadock--my clumsily so-called “significant other”--and I attended a traditional wedding where the “bride and groom,” a man and a woman costumed more or less like the traditional little statues on the traditional wedding cake, became “husband” and “wife.” Dona and I had been “significant others” decades ago, parted for decades and married other people, which is to say officially became “wives and husbands,” were both divorced from our respective spouses, and have now once more been eachother’s “significant others,” for over a decade. Awkwardly written paragraph, now isn’t it? What do you call a man and a woman who are and have long been living together as “husband” ...
THE TRANSFORMATION CRISIS--a book proposal for a major publisher
GENERAL STRIKE a free novella for direct action purpose
AMERICAN GENERALS ON STRIKE AGAINST THE FOREVER WAR. This is not going to make economic sense for me. GENERAL STRIKE is a 17,000 word novella that no magazine would dare publish and if you read it, you'll probably understand why, the very same reason why I self published it on Amazon, $7.00 for paperback, $5.00 because I believed it had to be read now. Unsurprisingly, it hasn't exactly been a best seller. So I've just undercut myself and not only dropped the Amazon prices to $3.58 for the paperback, the lowest price Amazon allows and at which I get no royalty at all and $2.99 for the ebook which is also the Amazon minimum. Not only that, I'm cutting even that by posting the whole novella on NORMAN SPINRAD AT LARGE for free. Why am I doing such a thing? Call it patriotism, call it direct action, call it putting my money where my mouth is, call it because I believe that current actions by Donald Trump re Iran among other things, make it necessary. Mikhail ...
A TALE OF THE THREE NORMAN SPINRADS
A TALE OF THE THREE NORMAN SPINRADS “Now is the time for a futile gesture” --attributed to the IRA “Believe the foma that make you strong and brave and happy”--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. One of us is in Paris France after four days at the Quais Du Polar festival in Lyon and surfing buoyantly at the crest of the wave. Another one of us is shortly to return to New York City and dreading the inevitable letdown. The third Norman Spinrad is writing this and attempting to cool his ire enough to try to make analytic sense of our maddeningly disjunctive existential situation. The Norman Spinrad who lived in Paris for over a de...
Mr. Spinrad,
ReplyDeleteI've been a huge fan for a while. Don't know if you recall, but ten years or so ago, you were looking for a new apt in Paris and I sent you the info of someone (a woman named Portia) who worked for the French govt to see if they could help.
In any regard, I'm trying to contact you for the purpose of doing an interview over the internet, via Vokle. It's a video format similar to your video blogs.
You can contact me at tom@thetomgulleyshow.com. I'll be happy to speak with you. Unless I'm done in by a Giant Flying Vampire Toad.
Tom G.