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Still struggling + El Trumpo

Hi! This is a notification that, yes, I am alive and continue to struggle, if not thrive.

As you know, I wallow in political satire. It would be cruel and mucho unfair to make fun of the war in Ukraine while people are dying and the country is being raped. That’s what my long silence and personal depression are about.

I have plenty to say, but I haven’t spoken publicly, since whatever I say will get taken wrong.

On the upside, I can share some gen on our former president.

  1. Donald Trump is definitely running in 2024.
  2. Once he grabs a hold of Twitter by the short hairs, Elon Musk will welcome in Donald J. Trump. We’ll see a repeat of 2016, with Trump scorching his opponents on Twitter day in and day out. It will get ugly.
  3. Donald Trump will never be found criminally liable, which would disqualify him to run for president. Why? His supporters have guns. Everyone in Washington, DC is scared shirtless of them gun-totin’ Trump supporters. With good reason. Finding Trump guilty of a crime would cause a civil war, and no official wants to be responsible for that.
  4. Donald Trump will get the Republican nomination and we’re back in 2016 all over again. He has his pick of running mate among the right-wing firebrands mouthing off and making mischief. You know who you are, dudes and ladies. Enjoy the moment!
  5. A study of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Third Reich will help you see more clearly that, yes, Virginia, history does repeat itself.
  6. Trump’s second four years will not be the bloodbath some liberals envision, but we will see a constant erosion of democratic principles. We can kiss goodbye to the America we currently have.

Have a great summer!

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Goals & Intentions

Today, the written word is a torrent. Seemingly, there’s more being written than ever can be read. Thankfully, my barbs and snide remarks on Twitter, @k_feingold, get a few likes, always one or two, never three. Once, amazingly, one of my comments went viral, garnering 34,000 likes. Once! That was the one where I joked that Dr. Anthony Fauci was secretly Fao Chi and Chinese.

I gotta laugh.

If you have the technical expertise and/or contact network to put my blog out there in a big way, this would be an ideal time for you to forward the link. Right now, we’re a pretty wonderful but exclusive bunch of diehards. There are about 50 of us, you my readers and me your writer. That you stick with me is a wonder to behold.

I have readers in the USA and China. This makes me very proud. Occasionally, someone in France, the UK, Sweden, Switzerland or Italy also reads my blog. I thank you all!

I write about politics to maintain my sanity. Society is going downhill fast. I try to impede this catastrophe by crying “Wolf!” I also feel like I am a canary in a coal mine.

I really put time and effort into my writing. I do not claim to have secret sources salted away in the government, but occasionally I do get a nugget of intel around which I can write a paragraph.

Trump is an idiot. The question for me is why Americans elected him and why his reelection is even under discussion.

Global warming causes extreme weather, pandemics, catastrophic wildfires on every continent but the poles, mass annihilation of animal life, damage to the ocean, damage to the Amazon, melting glaciers, calving ice shelves, rising sea levels, desalination of the oceans and a rapidly deteriorating atmosphere.

Guess if I’m worried.

I am. Deeply!

Do I want to influence the upcoming American presidential election? Damn straight I do!

Stay well. Stay safe!

Yours, Kev

 

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Finally a chart buster!

“Back in the Pandemic.” 4:36. Recorded live in the studio by the Swedish duo realPfft with a guest guitarist, a guest drummer and a guest producer. Also, an audio engineer with issues. This is take 9 of 16 takes recorded over a three day period. By the last take, all the noisy blemishes had been cleaned up, the impossible guitar had been tamed and the Chinese gong no longer blew the walls out. Unfortunately, the song was no longer any fun.

Boring.

Despite the coronavirus, realPfft’s business manager was visiting from the States. He had gotten a good price on his plane ticket. Now he was unhappy and he said as much. Insisting on his right to listen to all sixteen takes, he came to take number 9 and said, “There it is. That’s the song! What have you been doing the last day and a half?”

Bands have broken up over less, but these are all Swedes and they like one another. Agreeing that take 9 needed more treble, that’s all they added, leaving everything else alone. Unrefined. With a nod to the Beatles, a punk rock sense of rebellion and singer Clive Flatenbad channeling Joy Division, here is realPfft’s “Back in the Pandemic.”

Cover photo from singer Clive Flatenbad’s archive. Club Ultra, Handen, Sweden.

Best regards!

Kev

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“Peace Now? Very Funny” – the blurb

 

Peace Now? Very Funny is the hard-charging narrative that fearlessly rips the Band-Aid off the Middle East peace process, skewering (in alphabetical order) Anyone else I forgot, Bums, Crooks, Dolts, Egomaniacs, Fuhgeddaboudit, G-d, Hypocrites, Israeli politicians, John Kerry, Liberal leftwing writers, whatever starts with “M,” Not your father’s Israel, Other people, Pantywaist pacifists, Quirky jerks, Revisionists, Saeb Erekat, Trump… well, you get the idea.

A Mycket skit / Metro-Endlessly-Under-Repair Release.

Wanna read it as a pdf file? Including a color cover and an illustration by Kuny? Here!

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To enjoy!

Yours, Kev

 

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“American ISIS” now launched!

After many a tech struggle, my masterpiece (humble brag) is now available for your perusal. Got a web page and everything.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/608010

Hey, you get to read the first 20% for free!

I shoveled several thousand pounds of snow, qualifying me as a day laborer! My life feels like a satire. Groan!

Yours, Kevin

 

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Movie Update: Where am I going?

I FINISHED THE SCREENPLAY!!! (Calm down, calm down!) I finished the screenplay. Whew! It turned out great. But at 136 pages, it feels really lo-o-ong. Better to leave all the scenes in there and let a producer/director decide what to axe. As I learned in the Swedish film industry, if U don’t put it in the movie, it ain’t there!

Thank God for google. Search “Literary Agents+screenplays” and you find mucho sites with lists of possible agents. Maybe half are fully booked, but the others are interested in hearing my pitch. Nice.

For a synopsis of your basic plot, click on

Movie Magic

Long live 8mm!

– Kevin

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Where dat movie?

Groan!

Can U believe this, two months later– eight weeks!– and I’m ALMOST finito with my screenplay. Who knew movies were so hard to write??? Screenwriters.

Never-the-less, I am following Blake Snyder’s advice and bullheading my way through all the minutiae.

The most fun is reading my dialog aloud and finding out that NO ONE COULD SPEAK THIS! “Blozuflabitsanarsh! ” Oh, sure, somebody’s really going to say that on-screen.  Ya can hear me gnashing my teeth.

Otherwise, it’s all true: When you finish Hollywood formatting, one page does equal one minute of screen time. I’ve tried reading aloud ten pages and letting the scenes play out in  my mind. Consulting my stopwatch, yup! Ten minutes and 15 seconds. Close enough. That’s so cool!

I will keep U posted!

– Kevin

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