InstaPunk Returns

From May 2019 to May 2020, I haven’t been here. Realized I was just a Buccaneer. More accurately, an old privateer, not working for anybody but me. What we at Blogger call a Missing Year. I didn’t like anything. Couldn’t believe anything. Thought I was done. Tried multiple workarounds. After Punk . History Channel did two Tesla docs While I did one. The Laird Notebooks . Started writing about reading. How to Have Fun During the National Shutdown . Good stuff for everyone. Even a sad little stripped down site at simplesite.com . I binge-watched like everyone else. I even lied. About Seven of Nine. It was always T’Pol. And all the streaming services, until I had to give up on those too. I liked the idea of a Vulcan woman, whose womanitude was slowly emerging with the Captain. Then they got desperate for ratings, and she started stripping down. Ticked me off. I was half in love with T’Pol. Especially when she had her guilt episode and, gasp, what might have been tears...

America’s Punk Writer at 66. The Internet experts say you have to put it all on one page. So here goes. R. F. Laird describes himself as America’s only Punk Writer. By this he means that his entire writing life has been about breaking the rules and getting in people’s faces. He thinks it’s as important to be funny as to be serious, and vice versa. He thinks most writers write one kind of writing and keep writing the same book over and over again. That’s why he’s done the exact opposite. His works include fiction, most outrageously a complete literary movement, and innovative forms of satire, including Bibles, a fiendishly hard video game, spoofs of famous authors, cartoon stories, and approximately 150 short comedic videos and audio narratives. He’s written half a dozen blogs covering the events of his times and both serious and comic essays about every subject under the sun, including cars, dogs, movies and TV, the sexes, religion, politics, science, sports, and multiple genr...

Everybody rushed in after the fact to be first with the goods on how Trump pulled off the biggest electoral upset in modern presidential history. I was already ahead of them though. I had been covering the political briar patch with a steady diary approach for four presidential election cycles, both terms of W, the meteoric rise and weird re-election of Barack Obama, and of course the first flutterings of the Republican country club riot over replacing him. I had three blogs to draw from over that time, and a couple+ books out of it, including one demonstrating that I had Obama  figured out long before even his fiercest beltway critics caught on. Here’s another relevant book . I recognized the unique potential of Trump to win the whole thing early, in June of 2014. I could prove it. Why has it taken me this long to do my own book about the most spectacular politician of all our lifetimes? Two reasons. I didn’t realize I had produced so much material about Trump, the blog in ...