As the Kinks said.
So I’m trying to plan future projects, particularly for Kickstarter. Obviously these will need to be popular enough for people to put up money. So my question is:
What would you like to see me do?
A trip back to Central Asia or Afghanistan?
War correspondency (Syria, Niger Delta, etc.)?
Publish a collection of my political cartoons? Of my essays? A Ted Rall Reader?
A graphic novel sequel to the Year of Loving Dangerously?
Anything else?
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Good, unbiased war correspondency is severely missing from the media today. I would definitely fund that, although I’m worried about the morality of asking you to risk your life for cash.
@ansc: I’d much rather risk my life for cash than for free.
It’s not like anyone is offering me big bucks to review luxury resorts. Also, I like war correspondency.
Yeah war correspondence is most interesting, but as he said, you better want to do it for moral reasons, as from a financial stand point its not a good trade off, your chances of being dead are pretty good in many of those cases.
My favorite thing you’ve done is the cartoon log of your recent trip to Afghanistan. I looked for it each day you were over there.
How about a combination – a graphic novel based on a war-correspondent-based trip to the border of Syria and Turkey.
Everyone wants me to die. Cool!
I don’t think anyone wants you to die, Ted. You’ve been a war correspondent before – and lived – I I suspect you have some survival skills in the matter. I don’t think I am alone in my complete distrust of current newspapers and networks – well, enough distrust to make them pointless to watch. I said graphic novel earlier but I would really love to see a piece of graphic non-fiction from your take on that part of the world. But, I’m a poor unemployed student spending every penny to upgrade my own career so I’m not ASKING, I’m just SUGGESTING what I would like to read from you.
The choice is yours and, frankly, if you have to ask here for advice, I SUGGEST you first find make you current work more lucrative (without begging for new computers here please – you have a job!) and also to think carefully about what most interests you for the future. Whatever you decide, I am confident it will lead you to turd out great nuggets of deep wisdom and biting commentary.
Obviously I was just teasing. About the dying stuff.
sorry for the typos… I must be sleepier than I thought.
cheers
Hi Ted, let me start by saying that I am a great admirer of your work. I’ve bought two of your books, and I visit your website everyday. You are The most powerful voice on the left.
I have a couple of ideas for you.
First, the larger project: I would like to see a fiction novel that deals with a successful leftwing revolution. A work that inspires and informs and sets out a blueprint for how such an endeavor might be carried out. Delve into the players, the organization, and the tactics.
Second, a graphic novel that sets forth an alternate history of the aftermath of the UC Davis pepperspraying. This time, the protesters don’t double down on nonviolence, they go the other way. They organize, plan, train and equip themselves to beat the riot police at their own game. I want to see 1,000 protesters decked out in their own riot gear stand toe to toe with the oppressors and, using various McGuyver tricks as well as good old fashioned small-unit tactics, take them down.
As far as the war correspondence goes, I don’t think that’s a good use of your time. We already know that the wars suck on every level, that our government is stupid and corrupt, etc. Another report detailing this isn’t going to accomplish anything, and you are too valuable to us to risk your life producing such a reduntant item.
Thank you sir
@Aaron:
Thanks for the advice. Stephanie McMillan’s next project follows the lines you mention first. But I do have something you might like for the second one. I’ll think about it.
Outstanding. If you decide to go forward, I have some ideas for the tricks and tactics.