I was asked to show this movie at our County GOP headquarters. I did NOT want to watch it again - I was raised in North Minneapolis. It hit close to home for me. I showed it tonight and was shocked at the number of people that showed up and had never seen it. This is a great movie to get into everyone’s mind before November 5. The Harris/Walz ticket can NOT be allowed! It is free online at thefallofminneaplis.com - it is also free on YouTube.
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Funny that you said I can write. I was an English major with a minor in Latin. Started my post-apocalyptic novel in 1984 (I know, right?!) after a composition class where the prof was trying to convince us that Marilyn Robinson's Housekeeping was the female version of Huckleberry Finn. I was 18 walking my 2 mile trek back home through Dinkytown, thinking, "No, THAT's not the female version of Huckleberry Finn. I could write the female version of Huckleberry Finn." The arrogance of youth! But that's what I did. Took me 24 years between having babies and running businesses, etc. Finished it in 2007. Funnily enough, the shit hits the fan in my novel after a virus from China starts a chain of events that culminates in a neutron bomb dropped on Chicago and a couple other places. All sorts of dejavu happening for me these days. Makes me wonder if I wasn't tapping in to the great river of potentialities when I pulled those 800 pages into my brain and pushed them out through my fingers.
I know EXACTLY what you mean about losing the teenage/20s friends. My best friend since i was 15 could not abide me voting for President Trump. Same with the women in my writing group who are 20 years older than me and we had been meeting once a month for 20 years. The two kids I birthed--same thing. It's been pretty brutal, but I'm not going to be bullied by anybody--especially people who purport to love me. Screw that. I have met great people in this great awakening. I have a good friend who lives in Houston whose family lives in the Twin Cities who I met on Reddit back before the CalmBeforeTheStorm subreddit got nuked. He and I were both following MegaAnon pretty closely back then. He's a younger kid (anybody under 40 is a kid to me now, lol), who just got married--texted me pics last week. I met another friend in a line up in northern Wisconsin at a Trump rally before the 2020 election. She and I text regularly too. She and I were both in DC on January 6th though we never did find each other there. There's been pain in this process for sure, but a lot of joy too. And I'll take painful truth over pleasant lies any day of the week. I consider myself very blessed. I'll send you a DM with a link to the podcast my daughter started to do of my novel before she decided she hates me.
I am serious about meeting you in the Twin Cities when you're in the states next if, as you say, we're not in martial law or something. :)