KPKworld

Greetings! Cheers!  Slainte!  Skål!  Yo! ‘sup?

Ah, THERE YOU ARE. Good.

KPKworld is an amusement park for the mind. A feast for the funny bone! An enema for the id! Your online portal to opinion, delight, and any luck- a smidgen of insight on the side.

 

KPKworld is a meal for your Muse, since August of 2011. And always, a world of welcome Trouble!

Yes.   Why not?   Yes!

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It’s 2024!  HUZZAH!
We survived another year of turmoil!
(I fear we ain’t seen nuthin’ yet!)

 

> THIS YEAR in KPKworld:

. Every year I devise a different plan for this venture, and 2024 is no exception. My film reviews in FlixPix and the monthly compilations KPK on the CINEMA will continue, as they have for many years. They seem to have found an audience. Please keep reading!

January kicks off with a spate of QuickPix columns- two per day, Monday through Friday. These are highly useful compendiums of four or five brief film reviews, because they are the cream of the cream, representing only the very best examples of their genre. (Each title is rated between 4 and 5 stars- the “classic” designation I only bestow after a film has a decade to prove itself.) Give them a try!

February will see a re-airing of my very earliest poetry collection KPK (A to Z).

March and April highlight Collaboration Corner featuring various works composed with a little help from my friends.

May is a big month, with publication of stories from my ghost monologue The Stuff of Dreams, which features some truly amazing visions. Audible KPK will drop at the end of the month, providing links enabling readers to listen instead.

Then, continuing through early June: a return of my haunting, haunted series of crazy 4AM feverdreams Somnambulant Stories, guaranteed to curl your toes! From the middle of the month and continuing throughout 2024 I am stoked to return to Ireland, the home of my heart, in a serialization of my book MY IRISH DIARIES: Travels Through Ireland, North and South, most of which has never been published.

I will continue to post a new avatar every time the clock strikes midnight, revealing a different hidden face of my public persona Dr. Karameos Z. Similkemeen. These tricky altar-egos, have done the job of keeping the F.B.I. at bay. It can be useful to be a schizophrenic master of disguise, even if it does engender a daily identity crisis.

– Who knows what else I may just get an uncontrollable urge to drop in KPKworld in the new year? I am a madman! Prepared to be amazed… and probably horrified.

So be it.

> And hey! If you enjoy dazzling photographs Please Take A Moment To Visit:

SHUTTERBUG ‘s  BLISS

Your source for startling daily images from January 1st, 2018!

https://shutterbugsbliss.wordpress.com/

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It’s SOME FUN, YOU BET!

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> But now… It’s time to roam the main avenues and more well-travelled tributaries, or take a more leisurely safari through the back alleys of KPKworld to discover a wealth of nascent nooks and quaint crannies to delight and fascinate the inquisitive mind. This literary blog offers 10 distinct channels and 6 side streets to suit every eccentric taste.  Behold!

TALES FROM A WINDBAG (Share bittersweet, often humorous remembrances culled from the off-kilter autobiographical monologues of KPK.)

https://lastcre8iveiconoclast.wordpress.com/category/tales-from-a-windbag/

ME, TROLL  (My poetry channel, featuring fresh prose, haiku and free verse from the pen of Kevin Paul Keelan. Under this umbrella you can find my first poetry volume KPK (A to Z), as well as a compilation of the daily poems of 1980 and 2013: POEMS FROM A TURBULENT YEAR.)

https://lastcre8iveiconoclast.wordpress.com/category/me-troll/

QUIET IN THE BACK!  (The place for film commentary and useful lists for the tasteful cinaste.  This channel also features KPK on the CINEMA, monthly compilations reviewing the films I saw the previous month, and FLIX PIX providing specific suggestions for great, or noteworthy films, old and new- from mainstream blockbusters to small gems that often go unnoticed in a crowded media market.)

https://lastcre8iveiconoclast.wordpress.com/category/quiet-in-the-back/

IRISH RAMBLINGS (Merry excerpts from my lively travelogue: “MY IRISH DIARIES: Travels Through Ireland, North and South”, for lovers of Irish people and Celtic culture.)

https://lastcre8iveiconoclast.wordpress.com/category/irish-ramblings/

#TWEETS FROM A TWIT  (Posted before the limit doubled, these daily puzzlements of exactly 140 characters,  served to befuddle and flabbergast the Twitterverse.)

https://lastcre8iveiconoclast.wordpress.com/category/tweets-from-a-twit/

TASTY TIDBITS  (The asylum for Weirdoes, Kooks and Oddballs, this is a place where jokes and lies take shape without warning and spontaneously combust!)

https://lastcre8iveiconoclast.wordpress.com/category/tasty-tidbits/

GUESTBOOK  (A forum for collaborations and the linguistic musings of guest writers, poets and other prophetic liars and lying prophets.)

https://lastcre8iveiconoclast.wordpress.com/category/guestbook/

PITHY PIFFLE (Marvel over notable quotes and quotable notes compiled for your rumination, edification and stupidifacation.)

https://lastcre8iveiconoclast.wordpress.com/category/pithy-piffle/

SCRABBLE, ANYONE?  (Find useful lists for word gamers and my fellow lovers of our fractured Anguish Languish, and occasional commentary about the game.)

https://lastcre8iveiconoclast.wordpress.com/category/scrabble-anyone/

And:

WHAT, ME BLOVIATE? (Pointed social criticism, salacious slander, outrageous opinions, pointless pontification, bombastic buffoonery, common sense, left-wing hooey & really ridiculous rants.)

https://lastcre8iveiconoclast.wordpress.com/category/what-me-bloviate/

Read some!  Enjoy them!  Don’t hesitate to share your thoughts  before re-entering mundane reality.

Enjoy your visit to KPKworld.  Carpe diem, I say!  Seize the day.  We may not live to share another one.

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> Okay.  You perked my interest.  What now?  Where do I begin?

It depends. Like POETRY? Though certainly not my best, “ME, TROLL” has always been my flagship poem because it deals directly with the KPK dualistic identity thang.  See what you think:

http://wp.me/p1f0HZ-b

>However, KPKworld now has it’s own poetic manifesto!  Voila:

http://wp.me/p1f0HZ-2rN

Curious about traveling in IRELAND? Try this:

http://wp.me/p1f0HZ-1FS

Want to know more about my… unusual lifestory?  Why not begin at the beginning?

http://wp.me/p1f0HZ-1

Here is a posting from Flix Pix archives:

http://wp.me/p1foHZ-5XU

Want to know where I’m coming from aesthetically?  What am I passionate about?   This is the gateway to my poetic soul:

http://wp.me/p1f0HZ-1FS

or just read on, for the Layman’s Guide to KPKworld.

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WHAT, ME BLOVIATE? #1:

“WHY BLOG?”
(My Inaugural Cybercolumn)

> I told a friend I was planning to finally publish a blog. He surprised me by asking, in essence: WHY BLOG?  Good question!

. With the unrelenting and untenable background noise of information overload, in an age when few people have the time to stop and tie their shoes- who’s going to find my lonely voice crying from the wilderness? And if they do stumble upon it, will they ever find the time to sit down and actually READ it?

. Very doubtful really.

. But all my adult life I’ve wanted to be a daily newspaper columnist. Now, with newspapers all but going extinct, and all the media buzz about the blogosphere, there really doesn’t seem to be anywhere else to turn. All my life I’ve been the kind of human that feels the personal choices for him are clear and unambiguous:

. COMMUNICATE OR DIE.

. So what if no one is listening? I don’t really write for other people- though if they want to come along for the ride they are humbly welcomed and appreciated. I have always had so much going on inside me that it feels as though my head will burst if I don’t let some of it out.

. So consider this a safety-valve, letting off enough of that inner steam to keep me from an ugly explosion that nobody wants…

. I first dabbled in blogging on my Myspace page over a year ago, but received so little feedback, my enthusiasm waned and I stopped posting entries. (I kept writing of course, just not publicly.) I hope to get a lot more response on WordPress. It would be so gratifying to me if you can find it in your heart (and on your calendar) to read my blogs in “KPKworld” from time to time. It’s free! I have great confidence it will be fun, as I am a notoriously outspoken loudmouth with a splendiferous vocabulary, and a baffling lack of fear of being exposed as the simpleton he is. It’s gripping! One never knows when this foot might wind up deep in this mouth! Could happen anytime. It’s like watching a train wreck about to happen. You can’t look away.

. Please feel free to offer your much-desired feedback. You can tell the truth. I’m a big boy. (At least on the outside.)

. And let me know if you have a blog that I should be reading. I believe in an (unfortunately) imaginary community of artists and sensitive souls who work actively and eagerly to support each other’s pursuit of their own personal muse. (A beautiful lie I choose to embrace.) My blissful fantasy for the future? We all take personal responsibility to make this pipe-dream a working reality!

. Blogging is like dipping your toes into immortality. Someday- maybe soon- my body will turn back to dust, but my thoughts will live on, squirreled-away on some obscure server somewhere for the futurefolk to contemplate. It’s a humbling prospect for a human but an exciting possibility for a writer.

. Please let me know if you have feedback, suggestions, constructive criticism or wish to submit material for publication on KPKworld.

Thanks for the wonderful support Universe.  You’re swell.
Live long and prosper!

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