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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THE ABNORMAL NEW NORMAL

                    THE ABNORMAL NEW NORMAL                              by Norman Spinrad                 (a presidential platform for a  non-existent campaign)          “Things are more like they are now than they ever have been before.”                                                        --Dwight Eisenhower  “They wrote the biggest rubber check in history and passed it off on themselv...
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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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I've reduced the prices for THE PEOPLE'S POLICE as low as Amazon allows--$6.80 for the paperback, $2.99 for the ebook . I'm doing this because I believe that it's important that this novel be read as widely as possible right now even though I'll be losing money doing this. Because the title is not ironic. Because this novel bridges gaps--between cops and people of color, between Dixie and Yankeeland, between Christianity and Voodoo.

                                   Reviews of THE PEOPLE'S POLICE Tom Shippey on the Best New Science Fiction THE PEOPLE'S POLICE in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Norman Spinrad's novel imagines much wilder Mardi Gras and with it the idea of the "People's Police of New Orleans": cops looking the other way on minor crime, especially vice.                                By TOM SHIPPEY The big event in our near future, warns Norman Spinrad in "The People's Police", will be the Great Deflation. The dollar will surge, prices and wages will fall. Who suffers in that scenario? Everyone with a mortgage. Americans end up like Icelanders not so long ago, saddled with debts they can't pay with now-deflated incomes. The next stage is foreclosures and evictions. In sadly shrunken New Orleans, Officer Martin Luther Martin ...
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THE FRENCH EXCEPTION (English)et L'EXCEPTION FRANÇAISE ( Francaise)

This is a kind of  love letter to France, my original English text of an article commissioned in 1998 by the French national newspaper LE MONDE and a rough French translation done with Google because I couldn’t find LE MONDE’S French translation anywhere on the Internet.   (Update: meilleur traduction francais --merci a Alain Gresh I’m putting it online on the occasion of my impending 6 weeks or so in France because it’s been causing me to reflect on what my 14 years living in France has meant to me and still does during my largely unwilling return to New York. What I wrote in LE MONDE in 1998 is personally even truer for me now that it was then.  Since then, I’ve done appearances for the French Foreign Service in New Caldonia and Mexico, received a Career Achievement Award at the Utopiales festival in Nantes from the hands of  Jean-Marc Ayrault, then the mayor of Nantes, now Prime Minister of France.  I’ve had a hand in getting the prison diary ...
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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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PIRATING THE PIRATES

                                                                                                             by Norman Spinrad                                                     The Death Spiral of the Publishing Dea...
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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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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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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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