Chapter 7: malignant narcissism, OR how big she could make the cucumbers grow

Written by Steve Kahn on June 10th, 2009

Stewart shot up.

Jarred, he desperately looked for what took him seconds into consciousness to realize was a crying baby.

Then seconds more to realize where it was. Click to continue »

LOVE and FEAR: the new age God and Satan.

Written by Steve Kahn on May 2nd, 2009

I’ve been thinking about the Gods and Devils of our new age and outlined some of my ideas. Would love to hear yours as well.

Love has been personified and mythologized to the extent that it is indeed now the God of many. Click to continue »

Homeless man who inspired the “Troll”

Written by Steve Kahn on April 28th, 2009

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This is the actual homeless man who became the inspiration for the “Troll” in Death Wave. Troll is a major character in the novel and is first introduced in the chapter named after him: Chapter 3: The Troll.

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Chapter 6: The Way the Wind Blows

Written by Steve Kahn on April 23rd, 2009

Warm basso rumbles. It was her baby and it hurt her that such a deep demonic sound could come from such a little girl’s tummy. Her daughter bravely held her pinky as the two stood in line outside the Lenox Avenue Soup Kitchen. They silently stared forward, waiting their turn.

There wasn’t anything to do but not to make eye contact with anyone else. Such was the dark energy in the air of that cold October night. Everyone looked out-of-sorts as they stood bundled up against the wind fighting the harsh realities of Mother Nature. Everyone battled a new feeling of being disheveled and lost, everyone except maybe the homeless guy people called “The Troll”. He always looked disheveled and lost. Click to continue »

Junior’s Cave Interview

Written by Steve Kahn on March 27th, 2009

Just did an interview with Isaac Davis Jr. of Junior’s Cave. He’s a great guy and has a great site which has a whole social networking site friendsmix.net as well. I’m very sure it will give FaceBook a run for their money. When you join be sure to friend me.

Isaac: Hi Steve, I wanted to first thank you for taking the time from your busy schedule to complete this interview with our Webzine. You were born and raised in Southern California. Describe a little about how growing up in Southern California help you realize your love for theatre.

Steve: Hi Isaac. Thank you for the privilege to be on Junior’s Cave. Great looking site! It’s my pleasure. Click to continue »

Who helps spread the wave of FEAR? The press, that’s who.

Written by Steve Kahn on March 26th, 2009

Ok, look at this story…

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I was sitting at my laptop writing today with this on the coffee table staring me back in the face.

UCLA forecast: DARK DAYS

Then the byline went on to say that unemployment is going to be just terrible. (that’s how it came across to me)

I read part of the article which quoted the prestigious Anderson School of Business who said that the this would be a slow economic recovery with massive unemployment – This is despite the recent bit of Wall Street recovery.

That’s about when I stopped reading. That’s about when my stomach started to turn thinking of those dark days ahead.

Still, I kept looking back at the business section haunting me as I was trying to write. And, that’s when I saw the second sentence of the byline. “But policy changes hamper predictions.” Click to continue »

Cheney: the real jackass of the Bush Administration? Obama has Condi’s support

Written by Steve Kahn on March 25th, 2009

In the early years of the Bush administration it was clear that Cheney was really running the show.

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How to be sucessful in art… and life

Written by Steve Kahn on March 24th, 2009

I’m not sure if a schizophrenic homeless man named Mr. Ayres’ dream was to be a world famous cello player but that’s what he got. Famous

How famous? Well, how about numerous LA Times articles and a 60 minutes segment. And, oh yeah and a movie of his life story called The Soloist starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr.

Watch… Click to continue »

Coroprate greed is good

Written by Steve Kahn on March 23rd, 2009

If this is how it has made us feel…

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Maybe this will be our chance to learn some needed lessons of responsibility: Click to continue »

Thorw a tomato at AIG (and other stuff)

Written by Steve Kahn on March 21st, 2009

First off…take your AIG frustration out by chucking a (virtual) tomato at them in this informative flash game: http://tinyurl.com/dabg6e

Secondly… check out this site for great deals on books and for a review of Death Wave http://textbookdeals.wordpress.com/

Finally… new chapter (hopefully) to be out next week…