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process she alienates her true friends discards a boyfriend she supposedly loves takes up with a devious lover and generally compromises the high minded principles she came to town with but when she glimpses the truly cutthroat nature of the business she literally walks away recovering her integrity she goes after the job she wanted all along in real journalism she even finds a way to leave both miranda and emily on a conciliatory note what a perfect ending that was tied up with a bow when a movie resonates like that why not let it stand on its own forever won t a sequel mess with that tidy ending in this case it was the real world that intruded the devil wears prada 2 is a necessity because the journalism profession in which andy has excelled for 20 years is on the ropes and so is she on the very day that she and her team receive a prestigious award they are all laid off andy s acceptance speech turns into a screaming fit which ends with the declaration journalism still fucking matters her mission when she rejoins runway after all these years is to prove that statement by inserting her notion of real journalism into the fashion focused rag which is also fighting for its survival i wrote a couple of sequels myself during my novel writing career not that anyone was screaming for them they re not exactly the godfather or rocky material stories which could be plausibly stretched into eternity but i did want to see for myself how the small town college girls of the rock star s homecoming 2007 amateur dramatists and journalists back then would adapt to the real world in sycophants 2018 it turned out that two of the ambitious women found themselves in new york launching a film production company which attracts the attention of quite a few acquaintances from the past as well as current luminaries likewise i felt compelled to revive a major theme of let s play ball 2010 political conflict between the united states and cuba sparked by the kidnapping of a ballplayer i restaged the kidnapping so to speak seven years later with a different ballplayer and even higher stakes than before the devil wears prada two ties up loose ends as neatly as the original did once again andy struggles to keep her integrity while dealing with the oligarchs who can provide the cash infusion that runway needs emily is still a shark who needs to be handled and deserves to be hoodwinked but can also be placated miranda as devilish as ever on the surface still treats her assistants like lowly servants yet seems a tad more sympathetic than before having been forced to admit that she and the magazine need help she displays dare we say a touch of humility and as always goodhearted andy does what she can to protect her arrogant boss while striving to prove that fashion and journalistic integrity can coexist lgould171784 chicklit journalism self publishing uncategorized writing 2 comments july 19 2026 3 minutes happy endings in space my 2024 novella budget analyst in space has been my first and only attempt at science fiction during my 20 plus years of self publishing it was liberating in a way to just blurt out a wild and improbable story with a minimum of professional assistance and see what happened so how is it that this tossed off tale gets more kdp reads and digital sales on some days than my laboriously produced and closely edited full length novels maybe a story that can be read in one or two sittings appeals to the modern attention span i had no idea what i was doing except maybe having some fun i wasn t even sure if there are necessary tropes in science fiction as there are in romance must the tale be full of high adventure or can it be more philosophical and what about happy endings does good usually prevail over evil or do the conclusions tend to be ambiguous i read some robert heinlein as a youngster and especially fixated on stranger in a strange land which was popular during my high school years it featured a martian born messiah valentine michael smith whose very naivety about earth ways seemed to trigger the insights that his followers were seeking but did it end well for everyone only for the disciples who could accept smith s brutal death as a necessary prelude for his transformation to archangel michael how well does comedy work in this genre i laughed out loud all the way through hitchhiker s guide to the galaxy both the book and the film although it began very badly for the main protagonist arthur dent s earth home was demolished to make way for a local bypass which apparently inspired aliens known as vogons to wipe out the entire earth to build a hyperspace bypass arthur s subsequent wanderings through the galaxy tended to prove that everything is absurd and there is no point in trying to comprehend it or to control your own fate sadly arthur and his traveling companions find they can t go home again as only fragments of earth remain despite the guide judging the planet mostly harmless my only other immersion in science fiction has been to dip occasionally into the seemingly endless star wars saga it kicked off in the mid 1970s with an intrepid trio leaving their familiar lives behind and dedicating themselves to overthrowing the fascist empire that controlled the galaxy all space heroes it seems are called upon to leave home for various reasons in one of the opening scenes princess leia kidnapped by the storm troopers is forced to watch while her home planet is blown up meanwhile growing up on a dull planet with no prospects except farming luke skywalker feels the jedi stirrings in his blood and must depart to the dismay of his adoptive parents and then there s han solo a loner as his name implies originally a self serving smuggler who evolves from his neutral stance to a fighter while falling in love with the princess they all battle hard but that happy ending keeps eluding them since the evil empire never quite dies although conquered militarily it refashions itself into the first order meanwhile it s touch and go whether ben solo the son of han and leia will end up on the right side budget analyst in space begins with earth descending into a holy mess on many fronts while the technology for escaping on spaceships and possibilities for terra forming other planets are evolving at lightning speed travelers are taking to space in large numbers first establishing outposts on the moon and mars unsatisfied with the limitations of these places they set their sights on promising looking planets in deeper space janie the budget analyst of the title has been an aspiring science fiction writer since girlhood now 25 years old she finds herself working in a martian administrative office that produces funding plans for space colonization she also reviews applications for immigration from earth including a few from people she clashed with back home then personal disaster strikes while helping to stage an experimental piece for the first martian theatre she accidentally kills her estranged husband in a stunt gone bad this sets the stage for another possible trope a fugitive in space not trusting to martian justice to find her innocent janie boards a starship headed for the alpha centauri system her companions on this journey have diverse goals of their own some are on a scientific mission to uncover wormholes or grapple with the space time continuum others are searching for answers in the spiritual realm i couldn t quite conjure up a happy ending for this group will humans ever find what they re looking for when they take to deep space and if they encounter aliens will these be friend or foe that question becomes crucial when a huge meteor threatens the spacecraft and a powerful laser comes out of nowhere to zap the threat into harmless dust was this done by unknown creatures in friendship or as a demonstration of how they could also zap the intruders at any time in the wake of this rescue the voyagers begin to entertain strange visions of departed loved ones janie finds herself making love to her phantom ex husband from whom she seeks forgiveness it s perhaps a glimpse of what heaven or nirvana would be like but is it worth possibly dying for i leave that question up in the air so to speak lgould171784 chicklit science fiction self publishing uncategorized 2 comments july 10 2026 4 minutes what would the founders think with the biggest birthday bash in the nation s history fast approaching those of us who are at all historically minded can t help but wonder if the founding fathers could magically spring back to life what would they say about our present situation what has become of the democracy they envisioned 250 years ago and what would they make of donald trump we can only wonder which of the founders trump would choose to meet with during this time travel summit given his almost total ignorance of american history flawed as these men were they all possessed a certain character and courage that would baffle the current president they were fashioning a brave experiment in government knowing they were committing treason against the british crown and could be hanged for it if they fell into enemy hands general george washington faced adversities on the battlefield that cadet bone spurs never imagined in his cosseted life understanding the true wages of war i can imagine him taking trump to task for his whimsical military adventures washington s successor john adams would have done the same he declined to go to war against france at a time when such a move would have been popular it may well have cost him reelection but he insisted long afterward that making peace was the best decision he ever made the founders seemed to realize that democracy would always be fragile given human nature there would always be wannabe dictators with the ability to gather a dangerous number of followers they tried to put safeguards in the constitution and the bill of rights intended to make the executive branch strong enough to accomplish much but limited in vital ways if trump were at all interested in the concept of separation of powers which i doubt he would ask james madison alexander hamilton and john jay co authors of the federalist papers to explain it i m guessing this dynamic writing trio would be alarmed to observe that these days the other two branches the legislative and judicial aren t really doing enough to reign in the executive and they also knew their vision of democracy would depend on an informed electorate which is also questionable these days i can hear trump claiming moral superiority if someone clues him in that four of the first five presidents were enslavers but at least one of them might point out that trump s administration has squandered that advantage by scrubbing the most brutal realities of slavery from museums and monuments and even trying to pass it off as some sort of huge job training program washington and adams would surely throw their support behind the no kings movement once washington was done fighting the revolutionary war he indignantly turned down a serious offer to become king of the new republic as for adams who served as an envoy in both england and france he and especially mrs adams criticized the gaudiness and meaningless pageantry of royalty a man who lived simply most of his life he would turn up his nose at the tackiness of trump s white house decorations and his attempted city wide renovations even when they clashed as they often did the founders maintained a certain respect for one another given what they had all been through adams and thomas jefferson became close friends when they first served abroad but later fell out when they were contending for the presidency representing the opposing federalist and democratic republican parties jefferson as adams s successor gets credit for abolishing what was perhaps adams s worst mistake the alien and sedition acts four controversial laws that come off as alarmingly trump like among other things these laws made it easier to deport immigrants criminalized many forms of dissent against the ruling federalist party and especially targeted journalists what s wrong with that trump would undoubtedly exclaim the current president would definitely request a sit down with benjamin franklin the model of a 18 th century bon vivant he would demand to know what tricks franklin pulled to get his image on the 100 bill since he contemplates slapping his own mug on an even bigger denomination he would be licking his chops to pick the brain of alexander hamilton whose credentials include serving as the first secretary of the treasury and as a co founder of the first bank of the united states trump would appreciate hamilton s advocacy for a strong executive and his efforts to put the nation on a stronger financial footing but the ghost hamilton would surely warn the president about taking political disagreements too far it was idiotic of him to get shot in a duel with aaron burr no matter how much of a jerk burr was if that duel were to be reenacted i m guessing trump would root for burr although the episode ruined his reputation how could trump not love this maverick s plot to invade mexico combine it with western territories and declare himself emperor of a new country it s worth noting that adams and jefferson after years of animosity renewed their friendship late in life through a cordial exchange of letters maybe this was possible because they recognized each other s contributions to the great cause and never resorted to name calling making up malicious nicknames is one of trump s signature skills but his jibes aren t particularly clever just childish it s probably useless to speculate whether he would ever mellow if he were to become an ex president for good there is a proper way of taking off that mantle and moving on and many have done so graciously but i doubt trump is capable of that how could he accept the life long moniker of mr president when your majesty is the one he craves lgould171784 american politics federal government self publishing uncategorized 2 comments june 29 2026 4 minutes when they were young overtaken by one of those waves of nostalgia that come with aging i finally got around to downloading ron howard s 2016 documentary eight days a week aptly named after a particularly catchy early beatles song the film covers the british quartet s touring years when they were still young fresh faces as we now know all too well they were never as innocent as they looked they had grown up musically and in other ways while playing the tough clubs of hamburg germany a few years later touring the world gave them endless exposure to groupies and partying the true innocents were those of us who worshiped them at a distance the film opens with the boys playing one of their greatest early hits she loves you to a crowd of screaming fans mostly girls that is a song guaranteed to give me a shot of youthful exuberance whenever i listen to it on 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