Tad Williams's Blog, page 30
July 24, 2012
MORE DIMENSIONS
23 July 2012
Tad’s Mood Today
It’s Monday. Time to strap on the Russian bear-fighting suit and get back to work…
Just found this while googlandering.
File:Geological time spiral.png – Wikimedia Commons
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Deborah was Googling to try to find out why we have an occasional curry smell (without curry) in one of our rooms, and found a blog by someone who was told it’s a symptom of the approach of a spirit guide.
So we might have a spirit guide, but my money’s on it having something to do with dogs and urine.
A little grey morning music.
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22 July 2012
Tad’s Mood Today
Just finished the first draft of HAPPY HOUR IN HELL. There’s still a bit of clean-up and revision before I can let anyone look at it, including my publishers, wife, and agent — I do have my pride — but the story itself is written. Think I’m going to have a short nap to celebrate. That’s me, living large.
House is in a good mood because of an excellent review for DIRTY STREETS in Publishers Weekly. Dogs are romping. Outside my office windows the sun is shining and juncos are swarming a seed cake. I’m going to enjoy this for a little while, before life picks me up again and rushes me onward.
21 July 2012
Tad’s Mood Today
I’M THE GODDAMN CATMAN. (Little comics in-joke.)
We had a date, the wife and I. First time in months. Didn’t go to a movie, just went out to eat at a cool place in downtown Santa Cruz. Then we went home and used this electronic magnifying science toy with our daughter to look at various things made huge that should never be made huge, like dirty carpets and a dog’s belly. Then the two womenfolk decided they had to look at their own skin and stuff and of course that was pretty much all that happened for the rest of the evening. “Eww, is that a mole? Come look, I’m serious. Is that a mole with a hair on it, or is that just a bit of fiber?”
Still, it was fun evening. Not really a conventional date, I know, but we’re not really a conventional couple.
Hello, Earth. I’m your little brother.
This aerial view of an alien landscape was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter near Mars’ North Pole. Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_007...
I bet it would be less fun to be me if, instead of a fairly wide readership to interact with, I only had one patron. Like the pope or somebody.
20 July 2012
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Trumy exerslent.
He Likes Dinosaurs – UniqueDaily.com
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Just having fun with tunes. I had a lot of cheesecake tonight. This is how it makes me feel. Happy me. Great song.
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19 July 2012
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I don’t like to do things when everyone else is doing things. I need to warm up to things slowly. But then everyone else wants me to do their things when I’m finally ready to do my thing. This is why we need MORE DIMENSIONS.
Oh, yeah.
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18 July 2012
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Been reading Polish poetry today (in translation, I hasten to add.) Research. I really like my job.
These transition days, when I’m working but I’m not quite certain that I’m working on the right thing, are mildly annoying. Make me grumpy, even. I wouldn’t kick an innocent person, but I’d definitely consider giving a scofflaw of some kind a vigorous nudging with my foot.
17 July 2012
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I’d forgotten Clyde Crashchup was a Ross Bagdasarian joint. Each day I reclaim a little more of my drug-erased childhood. Another few years and I may remember where my parents live.
16 July 2012
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There is no day so hopeless that it cannot be at least slightly revived by listening to “Planet Rock”. Thank you for talking to me Afrika.
15 July 2012
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Busy day today, so you won’t hear much from me until later. Hope y’all get good use out of your Sunday. (You antipodeans, well, enjoy the new week and leave some good stuff for the rest of us, okay?)
14 July 2012
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Sometimes it’s hard to draw a line between “crazy” and “just stupid.” Not always, though.
Man steals dog, holds spider for ransom and hides kid in closet
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Hey, rising tide lifts all boats, they say? Any other fantasy writers received a buttload of offers for TV adaptations since GRRM’s Game of Thrones has been so successful and is now coming up on its third season? You neither?
Booklist on ‘A Stark and Wormy Knight’
From Subterranean Press:
The kindly folks at Booklist have just given their thumb’s up to Tad Williams’ hefty new collection, A Stark and Wormy Knight.
To wit:
“This is a collection of Williams’ excellent short fiction, originally published within the past 10 years. The 11 stories include fantasy, sf, and a few oddments, and they all make most interesting reading. The title story is most laughably pun-ishing; ‘The Storm Door’ is a subtle and frightful zombie tale; ‘Ants’ is a terrifying tale of a marriage gone wrong; and ‘Ministers of Grace’ is an introduction to a major novel not yet written. There is also a script for a DC Comics series that was never produced, and a screenplay for a movie never made, both of which show the breadth of Williams’ talent.”
July 18, 2012
‘The Dirty Streets of Heaven’ Early Reviews: Readers Love Bobby Dollar
Advance review copies of Tad’s latest book, The Dirty Streets of Heaven, have been circulating for a couple of weeks, and early reviews are coming in. Here is a round-up of what readers are saying about Bobby Dollar plus an exclusive excerpt from the book on Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist, and a give-away on Goodreads.
The Dirty Streets of Heaven will be released on September 4th. Read more about it here.
“When I heard that Tad Williams was writing an urban fantasy novel, I got all tingly. Now I’ve read it, and it’s even better than I’d dared to hope. It’s snarky, fast-paced, and above all, original. You should be tingly, too.”
– Patrick Rothfuss, best-selling author of The Name of the Wind
Read an excerpt from The Dirty Streets of Heaven on Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist, here.
Enter to win an advance copy of The Dirty Streets of Heaven on Goodreads, here.
STEPHEN ORMSBY REVIEWS THE DIRTY STREETS OF HEAVEN
The Dirty Streets of Heaven has surprised me. It is a story of Heaven and Hell and one angel, Bobby Dollar, stuck in the middle of it. He is not an important angel by any means, but seems to have a real talent for finding trouble. Or trouble finds him even if he doesn’t want it.
Souls are going missing and nobody knows why. Both Heaven and Hell are nervous and Bobby Dollar gets sucked into the middle of it.
If you are a seasoned Tad Williams fan, then you are in for a real treat. This is new ground for our fantasy favourite. If you haven’t read Tad before then you might like to read this and then have a look at some of his fantasy. I recommend Otherland. You will be amazed at how different they will read.
Tad is a master story teller and this series will be up there with his best.
SFBOOK.COM REVIEWS THE DIRTY STREETS OF HEAVEN
Here we have a modern take on the whole heaven and hell idea and the author does a brilliant job of describing the heavenly host and its angelic agents, set within an urban fantasy detective backdrop. I love how the author explains the way this afterlife works, it makes a great deal of sense and really pits the agents of heaven and hell against each other in competition for these departed souls.
Even better though is the actual story, narrated in the first person by our reluctant, angelic hero Bobby Dollar — which helps to create that detective ambience — we are treated to a twisting tale which greys the edges between good and bad and offers a plot that manages to keep the reader on their toes, although I did manage to guess what was going on before Bobby did. The story is broken up with some great action scenes and effective character building.
Williams has managed to create something really special with The Dirty Streets of Heaven that manages to breathe new life into the urban fantasy genre while at the same time retaining that magic of his earlier novels, an incredible start to a promising series.
PHOENIX RISING REVIEWS THE DIRTY STREETS OF HEAVEN
I loved that this is another one of his suck zone books! You open to the first page and you are sucked in! The story is so rich and fun that you get sucked in from the very first word! When I started to read this book my worst fear becomes…WHAT IF I DIE BEFORE I FINISH READING THIS BOOK? Truly for me Tad has once again created something new and fresh. There really is no comparison to any other book on the market, including his own. I know this because I have read everything that he has written. The best I can do is to say the feel of the flow of the story is similar to The War of the Flowers. The Dirty Streets of Heaven has a unique feeling to the story line. I love how he comes up with the new concepts and a fresh perspectives in his story telling.
I highly recommend this book to a scifi/fantasy reader, but due to cussing in the book I would say those over 17.
WHAT READERS ON GOODREADS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE DIRTY STREETS OF HEAVEN
“I enjoyed the book tremendously. It is a little more earthy than Williams’ more recent books, including colorful expletives to highlight moments of tension and a couple of adult scenes to establish the power and significance of a relationship.”
– Margit
“Another reason I loved it is it’s a short quick read. It’s a hell of a lot of fun and Bobby Dollar is a fun, multi-layered character that I enjoyed spending time with.”
– Steve Lewis
“What a great book so far. I expected another fantasy from Tad Williams but this so different. Angels and demons and lost souls. Very entertaining so far.”
– Stephen C.
“I was lucky enough to get a copy of the proof last week and just finished reading it. Warning: you may lose track of time, sleep and touch with your loved ones while reading this book.”
– Marquita
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Coming Soon: The Dirty Streets of Heaven
The first book in the Bobby Dollar series to be published in September 2012
Enjoy a teaser extract of The Dirty Streets of Heaven:
“It was a relief to see the dead kid’s soul actually waiting there…”
Bobby Dollar is an angel—a real one. He knows a lot about sin, and not just in his professional capacity as an advocate for souls caught between Heaven and Hell. Bobby’s wrestling with a few deadly sins of his own—pride, anger, even lust.
But his problems aren’t all his fault. Bobby can’t entirely trust his heavenly superiors, and he’s not too sure about any of his fellow earthbound angels either, especially the new kid that Heaven has dropped into their midst, a trainee angel who asks too many questions. And he sure as hell doesn’t trust the achingly gorgeous Countess of Cold Hands, a mysterious she-demon who seems to be the only one willing to tell him the truth.
When the souls of the recently departed start disappearing, catching both Heaven and Hell by surprise, things get bad very quickly for Bobby D. End-of-the-world bad. Beast of Revelations bad. Caught between the angry forces of Hell, the dangerous strategies of his own side, and a monstrous undead avenger that wants to rip his head off and suck out his soul, Bobby’s going to need all the friends he can get—in Heaven, on Earth, or anywhere else he can find them.
You’ve never met an angel like Bobby Dollar. And you’ve never read anything like The Dirty Streets of Heaven.
Brace yourself—the afterlife is weirder than you ever believed.
Three books are planned for the series: The Dirty Streets of Heaven, Happy Hour in Hell, and Sleeping Late on Judgment Day. Each will be somewhat shorter than Tad’s usual epic science fiction and fantasy fare, and although part of a series, each may be read as a stand-alone novel.
The Dirty Streets of Heaven will be published in September by DAW Books in the US and by Hodder Stoughton in the UK.
Preorder your copy today from:
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July 14, 2012
Fat Innkeeper Worm
13 July 2012
Tad’s Mood Today
Today I kept bumping into the fact of how blessed most of us are just to be alive and to have what we do. Don’t know why I kept running into moments like that, but I did. Not complaining, either.
Isn’t this our second Friday the 13th this year? I blame Obamacare.
I love this song. My favorite version is Regine Crespin’s, but this is lovely. And appropriate for summer nights, obviously.
4. Absence – Les nuits d’été (Berlioz) – Anne Sofie von Otter
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12 July 2012
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Hell hath no furry like a sas quatched.
Who says books no longer matter?
Boyfriend squirted partner with brown sauce when she refused to stop reading Fifty Shades of Grey -.
www.telegraph.co.uk
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The Poseidon Adventure for the nursery school set.
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11 July 2012
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10 July 2012
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Baseball fans only: I think it was Rob Dibble and some New York sportswriters whining about Sandoval and Cabrera making the starting line-up. As it turns out, S. and C. have darn near won the All-Star Game by themselves. So you can eat a bag of raw *gaebul*, Dibs.
Been doing research. Don’t want to be culturally insensitive, but I doubt I will be trying this food very soon. It’s called “gaebul”, a kind of marine worm. It’s popular in some Korean and Japanese cuisines, is served raw, and is called either “Fat Innkeeper Worm” or “Penis Fish.” For a guy who doesn’t eat sushi, there are several deal-breakers in this one.
We have built an entire culture on “colorless” classical statues and friezes. I suspect if we could, we’d go back in time and scrub the paint off them all, just so they’d match what we thought for so long.
Ancient Art, in Living Color? One of the greatest…
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When I was a teenage guy, television choices were much more limited (obviously) than they are now, and my friend Corry and I would build our weekend around watching SCTV. Nearly everybody on that show was a comedy god, and when Martin Short came along he fit right in, another genius.
9 July 2012
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We’re big, big Miyazaki fans around my house.
Two stories finished and sent. Two stories and the first draft of HAPPY HOUR IN HELL to go. Zoom, zoom! (Screech, crash.)
8 July 2012
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7 July 2012
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Because I think EVERYBODY should have to stare at the same damn picture of one of our ridiculous dogs that my daughter keeps sending me.
6 July 2012
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July 6, 2012
Deadline Frenzies
5 July 2012
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He’s a maniac.
APOD: 2012 July 3 – In the Shadow of Saturns Rings
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Yes! Fear us! Fear our fat, fat power!
4 July 2012
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Here in California we’re still in the last hour of Independence Day, which means I still have time to share this holiday-appropriate picture of Teddy Roosevelt machinegunning Bigfoot. America — @#$% YEAH
We are lucky enough to own this. We consider ourselves custodians. And it’s all true! Jack was the best.
Good piece on the HB and why it matters. Thanks Deb, Bruce, and others for passing this around.
Hello, Higgs Boson: Why the Discovery Is Such a Big Deal
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Happy 4th! Remember, America is the greatest or we’ll punch you! Yeah!
(Actually, I’m pretty fond of my country, all in all. Go us!)
3 July 2012
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I would have considered this one of the greatest comic book covers of all time anyway, but as a writer prone to deadline frenzies, I find it even more satisfying.
A million monkeys typing for a million years couldn’t get me caught up.
2 July 2012
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It would be nice if we could put some of that Robert-Ardrey “killer ape” crap to bed. (It’s also the foundation for a lot of authoritarian twaddle.) As usual, the truth is much more complicated and much more interesting.
Science overturns view of humans as naturally ‘nasty’
phys.org
1 July 2012
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I can’t believe I actually just wasted five minutes of my life arguing that Obama probably isn’t a Marxist. It’s like talking to breakfast cereal.
“WHY is Obama a Marxist?”
“Snap. Crackle. Pop!”
“But those aren’t reasons.”
“Pop. Snap. Crackle. And so are you.”
30 June 2012
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One never knows about other people’s marriages, but I have a strange feeling Katie Holmes is going to be enjoying her life a lot more in the next couple of years.
It’s a useful reminder of technology’s sway over our lives that when my internet connection and computer are balky, like today, I keep wanting to punch reality in the face.
I think I’d like to be writer in residence in a quiet bar with good food. Like as an actual job. I’d just sit there and be the quiet background noise as I typed out people’s short requests for disquisitions or stories on various themes. Every now and then I’d lean into the mike and call out dedications.
“This story about one of my animals, but written in the style of Chuck Palahniuk, goes out to Mindy and Karl. Thanks, guys. Yeah, just tuck it right in the jar, there.”
I’m in a quiet, calm late night mood again tonight, at least in terms of the music I feel like listening to (and sharing.)
Gonna Take A Miracle – Laura Nyro and Labelle HD
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29 June 2012
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All that you’re loved
Is all that you own.
- Tom Waits, “Take It With Me”
So long as we’re in this particular (very nice) groove…voilá.
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raising Sand Live Jools Holland 2008
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Just had a sudden urge to hear this song, thought I’d share it with you.
Alison Krauss – Down To The River To Pray
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28 June 2012
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NBA draft tonight. I’m all excited. I almost like the draft better than the actual season, for some reason. I guess because it’s all about possibility.
June 28, 2012
Off to the Land of Deep Thought-Thinking
27 June 2012
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Jean Simmons as Ophelia. Love this picture.
Also fascinating stuff. The brain — along with the rest of the natural world — still has a lot to teach us.
What the Supercool Arctic Ground Squirrel Teaches Us about the Brain’s Resilience: Scientific Americ
www.scientificamerican.com
A boatload of interesting stuff here. Otherland fans take note…!
Mind reading from brain recordings? ‘Neural fingerprints’ of memory associations decoded
www.sciencedaily.com
Second anthology story down, minus editing. One to number three. Sing out, Gloria! I will survive!
Who can tell me what this macabre item is? Hint: You might not know it, but you’d recognize its younger brother.
R.I.P. Nora Ephron. She made me laugh many times. Should have lived longer.
26 June 2012
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Warhol portrait of Joseph Beuys.
25 June 2012
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I hope Johnny got his crane shot…
I have set out to solve two fairly basic backyard creature identification problems in the last week, and both have led me into fascinating and confusing lines of zoological inquiry. This stuff is hard, at least when you only have books and the internet, but I can see why people devote their lives to such things.
Besides the second Bobby Dollar book, HAPPY HOUR IN HELL, which I’m just finishing, I’m also working on four short stories at the same time. The titles (working, at this stage) are: THE OLD SCALE GAME; GOD BRINGS HIS DAUGHTER TO WORK; MEDICINE DANCE, ARIZONA; and BASHO. (I don’t know how to do that Japanese “O” with the line over it.) With luck, I’ll have most of them done in another week or so. And not be dead.
Reading and greatly enjoying Deborah’s (my wife Deborah Beale) Frankie Wah collection — the tweets of our self-absorbed Chihuahua. Coming soon to an electronic marketplace near you. Also available in liberally-sprinkled liquid form, suitable for any vertical surface close to the ground!
It’s quite beautiful.
24 June 2012
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Alternative explanation: When you lose your hair early, like me and Sean, you sort of plateau for a while because nobody realizes how old you’re getting.
Okay, Sunday. Impress me.
I’m off to the land of deep thought-thinking, then sleep. Well, possibly with a bit of Futurama snuck in between. Anyway, we’ve been singing this (or bits of it) a lot around the house because Boy just finished performing in Pirates of Penzance. And because we’re scientific!
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23 June 2012
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This is what I look like before my morning make-up session.
A fascinating guy. Glad he’s not dead.
‘Paul Williams Still Alive’: The incredible rise, drug-blasted fall, and unlikely return of a ’70s icon
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I love the idea of faking your own death, but it’s so done. Instead, I’m going to record a bunch of messages to be played after I die, in which I will claim that I have actually been dead for decades, but I have totally been faking my life all that time.
22 June 2012
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June 22, 2012
An Expert-Level Dance
21 June 2012
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The title track is actually rather cool, not least for rhyming “Castro” with “disastro”. See if you can find it on iTunes or somewhere.
Morticia in mufti.
I am in a sort of high-heat, fast-cooking mode at the moment with my writing, trying to get a huge number of projects done, a first draft of second Bobby Dollar novel and several short stories due for anthologies being the main culprits.
And at the moment it’s going well enough that I’m reluctant to take time off to do other things, like get exercise or hang out with my family. I find it interesting how the essential fulcrum of life for me is always work (which I love) versus family and friends (which I love more).
It’s always been an expert-level dance trying to balance the two.
For some reason, I suspect Ms. Lohan’s travails will not result in any direct improvement of working conditions for lesser artists like myself.
Lindsay Lohan’s exhaustion triggers union inquiry – CNN.com
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I’ve seen enough I-can-haz-cheezburger images in the last decade to kill a weaker man, yet I never even cracked a semi. Every now and then, though, a game little challenger breaks through and lands right in the middle of my heart and names himself “Captain Big Grin.” This is one of those thens.
20 June 2012
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No matter what else happens today, it is not wasted, because I have learned several weird and interesting things about cuckoo clocks.
Not Your Grandma’s Cuckoo: Decapitating, Rat-Eating Clocks of the Black Forest
www.collectorsweekly.com
19 June 2012
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John Phillip Law, the angel from “Barbarella”, as Diabolik, French comic book anti-hero. HOWEVER, the main reason it’s significant is because “Diabolik” was the very last Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie, when Mike and the ‘bots escaped back to earth.
I’m glad I live in the internet world, because useful silliness travels much faster these days.
18 June 2012
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Stole this one from Jessica Amanda Salmonson.
Dorothy Malone, Martin and Lewis, and Shirley MacLaine in a goofy studio shot. Swingin’.
Happy Monday!
17 June 2012
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The fabulous Melissa auf der Maur.
My God, I didn’t even realize — we have moved into the fifth Octomob already! Congratulations, Octomob Number Four, your numbers are complete. And congratulations, new Octomobsters!
(Some time back, I declared that the first 888 Facebook friends constituted an “octomob”. I’ve been keeping track of them since. Friend #3552 filled up the fourth octomob, and #3553 started the new one, which has about nineteen menbers so far. Man, if you don’t know your octomob number, how you gonna get paid?)
And I’ll mate in private, too, thank you.
Happy Father’s Day! I’m off to play music. And do some fathering, too, naturally. Not in the sense of literally impregnating anybody, just picking up and dropping off various of my offspring.
16 June 2012
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By the way, apropos of my profile picture, you ARE all watching “Adventure Time” aren’t you? Because it’s one of the best programs on television, and only incidentally “for kids.”
15 June 2012
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14 June 2012
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Good morning!
June 19, 2012
Boudicca: From ‘Publishers Lunch’ 6/19/12
Interesting breakdown of Seth Godin’s Kickstarter — note that it’s therefore mainly carried by his big fans, in a limited edition kind of way. It’s how to publish niche successfully — it’s not necessarily a lesson for big publishers beyond that.
It’s no surprise that Seth Godin‘s Kickstarter effort announced yesterday morning to jump-start his new book THE ICARUS DECEPTION successfully drew his “tribe” of most loyal followers: in just over 24 hours the project has garnered pledges of nearly $200,000, with many rewards offers fully claimed. One interesting potential takeaway for other authors and publishers is that these early supporters are not driven by the lowest-priced offerings. His recommended “no-brainer” package was fully subscribed with 800 backers at $111 each (and 3 of the 4 higher-priced packages are also filled). That’s about the same number of backers who have now elected for the least expensive $4 digital preview only–with the former generating almost $89,000 and the latter accounting for only about $3,300 in sales. It would take over 22,000 cheap previews to equal the revenue from those higher-priced pledges.
June 14, 2012
I have spent a great deal of time in Hell lately.
13 June 2012
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Got this from both David Brin and Bruce Lieberman. Really good news as far as I’m concerned. Our main hope for survival as a species is to get smarter, and that most definitely includes both ethical and practical smarts.
U.S. Students Flock to Graduate Science Programs – ScienceInsider
news.sciencemag.org
Only baseball fans (esp. Giants fans) will care, but Matt Cain just threw a perfect game against the Astros. Wow. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those live before, certainly not by a Giant.
I haven’t forgotten about my request for astrophysical help, nor all your kind suggestions. I’m just not working on that story at the moment. Meanwhile, you might like this:
Is the secret of the ‘previous’ universe hidden in the microwaves? Scientist ‘spots’ ghost
www.dailymail.co.uk
12 June 2012
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Always one of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems, but I get it much more deeply now than I did when I was younger and (even more) self-obsessed.
“I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there’s a pair of us–don’t tell!
They’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
And I’m going to bed.
11 June 2012
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My children are old enough now that they’ve graduated from “crazy” to “wildly eccentric.”
10 June 2012
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Thanks, Rick, for the picture!
I have often noticed fabulous older women like this while walking around in Manhattan. You go, girls!
Meet the OATs (that’s old-age trendsetters)
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Another 12 pages of HAPPY HOUR IN HELL today. I have crossed the 400 page point and am moving into the final downhill tumult of the story. I have spent a great deal of time in Hell lately. It will be nice to make my way back out again.
Billy with his tiny, humanoid head was the shame of the family.
Here’s the crux: A Cornell researcher discovers that ‘44 per cent of Social Security recipients, 43 per cent of those receiving unemployment benefits, and 40 per cent of those on Medicare say that they “have not used a government program”.’
Keep Your Government Hands Off My Welfare State
www.commondreams.org
9 June 2012
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No comments? This might be the bitchin’est profile pic ever!
Hunter S. Thomcat and attorney.
I don’t know if it’s her or not, but the humor and intelligence in that face certainly fits with the JA I know from biographies. Which means only that -I- approve of the likeness.
Only known Austen portrait to be sold | Reuters
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Saturday. A day that used to MEAN something. Like, cartoons.
Determined for once to see a movie while it’s still in the theaters, Boy and I dodged through the Prometheus first-nighters and saw Avengers. The comic book nerd in me was thrilled. Great, great fun. Best Hulk Smash scene EVER.
8 June 2012
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I pity the foo’ who said there are no good autotunes. Preach, Brother Fred.
Mister Rogers Remixed | Garden of Your Mind | PBS Digital Studios
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7 June 2012
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Was sorry to hear about Bob Welch, ex of Fleetwood Mac (pre-Buckingham/Nicks) who apparently took his own life.
Fleetwood Mac-Hypnotized (High Quality) 1973
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