Red State Hero

Obama (Saul Alinski sissy boy) and the Liberals sizing power and destroying capitalism and the American way of life with Bill Ayres, Pol Pot Pelosi, Rev. Wright, Huckster Harry, the corrupt republicans, (to many to write here led by Howdy Doody Bush) and $9 Trillion in spending pledged or spent. Lets say oil & money reps., sex & money dems. And your wife is one lovely person, she does add to anything you do.

Oh No! Another " Neddy ".

Buzz was right. They are spawning right here on Cape Cod.

Where is " Frindge " when we need them?

Nice writing and excellent dialogue. It draws the reader right in at the start and maintains interest in the characters. I have one question about the first paragraph though.

I have a fairly good vocabulary, but I was thrown by "studification." I can't find it in my standard dictionary so I Googled it to see if it might be a current neologism. I found your use from Red State Hero without explanation, and then several other varying usages, including the application of studs to motorcycle tires -not very literary.

So I assume it was just a typo where "stupification" fits, along with debauchery to describe Williams' personal demons.

Seriously, though, I really do not like reading more than a few pages on line. Is the novel in print anywhere?

Nice writing and excellent dialogue. It draws the reader right in at the start and maintains interest in the characters. I have one question about the first paragraph though.

I have a fairly good vocabulary, but I was thrown by "studification." I can't find it in my standard dictionary so I Googled it to see if it might be a current neologism. I found your use from Red State Hero without explanation, and then several other varying usages, including the application of studs to motorcycle tires -not very literary.

So I assume it was just a typo where "stupification" fits, along with debauchery to describe Williams' personal demons.

Seriously, though, I really do not like reading more that a few pages on line. Is the novel in print anywhere?

You god of media, you...

Okay, I guess we know who Daniel is, in this roman a clef! That'd be Prostate, not Prostrate.

That would be, "Homburg" unless Dorothy is mispronouncing it. More weirdness; my late Uncle Joe of Charleston was in a bidness partnership for a while with Mr. Schoenbaum of Shoney's...

Um, it's 'Dalai' Lama. You're thinking of maverick's favorite painter, el Salvador. That reference to the Metro City airport reminded me of flying into Charleston twice a year in the late50s-early60s to visit my granddad. That airport was likewise on a flattened mountaintop and pilots had to be exceedingly careful not to overshoot... I remember the cheesy grey-green leather on the eastern Airline armrests...

One 'd' in Midler... 2 'n's in Sonntag (that wasn't Susan's real name).

Just as likely as the Real Wizard of Oz is annointed after it snows in London..

Oh wait..it did!
Obama is the winner!

All you middle class take the day off!
And vote!
You can now afford it...

Hell..take the year off and celebrate..

I am..

possee

Hmmm! Palin may end up Empress of Oz yet when Alaska is warm as Kansas! There's no place like Nome!

Yipes-- fantastic setup. I don't know how much I like Glenn but I've been inside his head for several months now. This is how it must have been for the readers of Dickens-- all his great novels were serialized...

The ENRON bit is funnier if I mention that the concussion occurred in 1994, but there's a reason I sort of peaked here, humor wise.

I got knocked out playing soccer once, and I woke up in the ambulance. It's funny when you lose 5-10 minutes... very disorienting.

Coach Shea told me that, while I was still unconscious, I sat up, looked around, and said "ENRON... divest...." then passed back out again. It was in all the medical journals for a while, but this was pre You Tube and the momentum sort of peetered out.

Mesmerizing narrative-- where does fact end and fiction begin? The process of research would make a book of its own...

Did we miss something here? Glenn was worried about his setup with Lewis in the last chapter and now he's happy about the tractors and thanking God for Lewis... did the dying Lewis resolve the setup issue?

Greetings Karen and David- that would be 'stRing ensemble', and this is the second mention of 'Chivas' as 'Chevis'.

Wait- Bambi's mom may've been a shiksa- which chapter was that?

If I recall the narrative correctly, the Mulatto Granddaughter would possess the Right of Return to Israel...

pennyroyal
Wow..
Imagine the outrage if ole Ted Nugent was candidate..
They'd make him the second Atilla the Hun!

Cheers umassjsp, Minutemen unite. If I weren't voting for John & Sarah I'd be voting for Nugent. Ted Nugent.

Im voting for McCain and Palin. No Moonbats in Barnstable!!!!

I am a glassy-eyed intellectual and I vote!

I'd say a hyphen between 'silver' and 'skinned', 'Chivas'(Ted's fave), and the question mark after 'enforcement' not 'Leo'. I'm becoming a Glenn-o-maniac...

"Had his grandfather not been a patron of Mahler's, a friend of Freud's and a secret consort of a Hapsburg princess." This should probably have a question mark instead of a period at the end. Also "Goldman-Sachs" is the correct spelling, is it not? I'm feeling at this point in the epic that certain recurring themes might be starting to weigh down the forward thrust of the narrative... but hey what do I want for free? Oh "several of people" should be "several people"..."even-going personality" should be "easy-going personality"... I'm feeling the rewrites and all the real-life research going into this and it's greatly appreciated...

I like when Reggie fought Billy Martin.

Hmmm- that would be 'the AIDS Scare' I'd presume. My parents' social life consisted for 30 years of crisscrossing the country swapping Time Share weekends and attending local meetings of the Tax Reduction Movement... a subcultural phenomenon due some documentation...

"And it was worse than that, Lewis and Betty..." I'd say a semicolon after 'that' or an 'as' before 'Lewis'. And it would be 'fawn' not 'faun'. But I'm totally lovin' this epic...

I'm considered to be a good date, because you can take me- happily- to a sporting event.

Ziggy Elman of course does the famous Klezmer break in AND THE ANGELS SING; & just off the top of my head, Naftuli Brandwein was the other big Klezmer guy IIRC.

Red state impressions is a professor at more head state university who has lived. A better society would be treating soldiers as heroes.
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Sandy
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An awesome chunk of correspondence from the Great American Class War from an author who knows the tropes of both sides. I'm feeling the vertigo...

This has been very good so far. I can't wait for the next half. Thanks!

The thing about the Persians reminded me of a weird tale I read about "Old Man of the Mountain" Hasan-I-Sabah's Castle of the Assassins and the naphtha that oozed from its carved-out-of-the-stone walls... gotta go google that now.

A ripping yarn indeed!!!

When I worked at the factory in college, we had an Ingersoll-Rand grinder.

Any state that allows hunting licenses to 10 year olds and wants to make gun safety mandatory in schools is okay with me.

As with most stereotypical commentaries, there is an element of truth to this one.

I'm 65 years old, and a native West Virginian. In actuality, northern West Virginia was largely German in ancestory, and there was a middle area in Northcentral WV (Morgantown to Clarksburg) where the Germanic and Celtic freely blended. Italians, Spaniards, and blacks immigrated to the area to work in the mines and the ancestors of all these folks remain today. Eastern Europeans came to work in the steel mills of the northern part of the state.

All in all, if one were to venture to WV today they would find a warm and welcoming people who deeply love and respect their State and Nation.

The state is an absolute model for tolerance and community which is quite contrary to many stereotypical depictions. It is an eager participant in the modern world and embraces technology with a strong work ethic. The Northcentral and Eastern Panhandle regions are prosperous and growing, with Morgantown rated by many publications as being among America's most desirable communities.
Connecticut Mountaineer

I am amazed that the stomping grounds of my parents, Evansville IN and Charleston WV are being referenced in this opus... lots of paranormal legends in both areas such as the Wabash Frog- Creatures and Mothman...

Dogpatch was in Arkansas.