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STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

            HAPPY  2020  NEW YEAR from Dona &Norman                     What doesn't kill you makes love stronger Norman Spinrad dances with Dona Sadock at his 70th Birthday party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kejMBMabfbY         Ten years ago it was probable that I wouldn't live to make it to this party. But reports of my imminent demise proved to be exaggerated.        "Don't look back, something may gaining on you."                      ---Satchel Paige                                        
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DONALD TRUMP AGENT OF SATAN

                                           DONALD TRUMP AGENT OF SATAN                                               The Bluegrass Song                                    Just in time for the impeachment!  Whoever turns out to be the Democratic candidate for President is welcome to use it as their theme  song. Free of charge! Pro bono! DONALD TRUMP AGENT OF SATAN    click here
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                            CITIZENS OF THE WORLD The more I work to fully create NORMAN SPINRAD AT LARGE the more possibilities I discover but nothing I've found or realized is greater, more potentially revolutionary in the best possible sense. Flip down the sidebar to "Translation" and go to "choose language." Down pops a choice of about 140 languages. Choose one click it, and the entire web site translates into it in something like a minutes Up top is a box that lets you go back to the original English. Meaning that virtually anyone anywhere can read anything in NORMAN SPINRAD AT LARGE in their own language as long as they're on the site.  Next time you come back it reverts to English.  But I've discovered a bit more.  If you translate the website to another language you can cut and paste, say the free story below,  THE HELPING HAND, you can keep it someplace in your computer in the tran...
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                                   QUARANTINE                               by Norman Spinrad  If it wasn’t the best of times, at least it wasn’t the worst of times, or something like that, which is the opening line of a novel called A TALE OF TWO CITIES, and it seemed like this would be only a tale of one. Back in the day before the Quarantine, Manhattan island was the heart and soul and pocketbook of New York City, to the extent that New York could have been said to have all three, Wall Street, Greenwich Village, Broadway and 42nd Street, and all that jazz. When you saw a movie or a TV show or an ad featuring New York, the Big Apple was Manhattan, not anything in what some visiting Californian must have dubbed the “Outer Boroughs,” the moral equivalent of Anaheim or Eagle Rock as far as a Hollywood wise guy was ...
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           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...
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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...
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VITAMIN C VERSES CORONAVIRUS Why I've not yet read this anywhere I don't know but that is why I'm duty-bound to do it myself: Vitamin C will be effective against the Coronavirus, personally, and collectively. Vitamin C promotes the body's creation of Interferon which is key to the strength of the immune system. Everyone should take at least 2000mg of Vitamin C, 1000 in the morning, 1000 in the evening, some say another 1000 mid-day. This is not curative, this is cautionary, keeping your immune system running at maximum. If you start to suspect that you may be feeling early symptoms take 1000 mg of Vitamin C an hour until your urine turns bright yellow, which means that your Vitamin C is at maximum and you are pissing away the rest. This will not always stop the infection but it frequently will. I am not making this up, it was discovered and elucidated by Linus Pauling, a Nobel class biochemist. Decades ago, I suffered chronic urinary infection like many men. When I ...
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A CONTACT INTERVIEW WITH ME FROM 1978

This, at least to me, is an amazing interview done with me from way back in 1978 by Joseph S. Zitt, courtesy of  Steve Davidson.  A scanned pdf from what may have actually been a mimeographed fanzine.  The only form in which I could put it here. Contact Interview with Norman Spinrad from 1978 in pdf formant!   Fascinating to see how dead right I was about many things, how optimistically dead wrong about others! Strangely enough, maybe the best interview with me ever, certainly the best through 1978. And still, I think the longest.  This, including the illo, is posted on the Amazing Stories website.
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DONALD TRUMP AGENT OF SATAN THE SONG AND VIDEO UPDATED BY JOE CADY Music   by Joe Cady and Norman Spinrad Lyrics and vocal by Norman Spinrad SEE AND HEAR IT ON YOUTUBE
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 I am often asked for bibliographic and personal details dating  in both English and French.  I do appreciate being asked for such details by critics, journalists, readers, and so forth.  How could I not?  But I don't know the answers myself often, and even when I do, as every writer and so forth will admit, it gets dreary to have to give the same answers to the same questions over and over again.  Believe me the Wikipedias remember more about me than I do myself and they are honest and neutral, if not 100% accurate.       So here they are directly.    And a direct link to all the YouTube videos I've done all by myself--songs, comedy, politics, phony ads, reportage, all lined up with a single direct click. My English Wikipedia entry     click here Mon Wikipedia francais       click here ll my YouTube videos in one  cl ick here
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