Tad Williams's Blog, page 41
October 31, 2010
Someone Hasn't Been Taking His Medication
29 October 2010
Oh, and I don't think I ever shared the follow-up picture to the Khthulhu Kitten from the other day. I made this version just to bug my dear friend Scott Chavez, who didn't like the original...
Sun-faded poster that might as well have come right off a bookstore or dorm room wall in 1972...
October Profile Parade: an old picture, but appropriate for the season. This cemetery is in Highbury, London where we used to live.
Was there ever a Peanuts special entitled "It's Sammy Hagar, Charlie Brown!" No? Good. I was worried for a moment.
Lisa Blount, best known as Debra Winger's friend in "Officer and a Gentleman", dead at the ridiculously young age of 53 from "natural causes", singing in the film "Chrystal".
It's so weird to be sharing what for me is generally an intensely private relationship (the one between me and my baseball team) with so many Bay Area folks, and even with my English relatives. Usually I'm the only person I know who cares what's going on in a Giants game...
28 October 2010
I didn't post the original article about this guy because what he said was so vile I thought it would just make nice people sad, but I have to share this — this guy is the Arkansas Pinocchio. "I try to love everyone...!" Go back and read his original loving statement and see if you can believe that.
Arkansas school board member to resign over anti-gay post
www.cnn.com
A school board member in Arkansas who came under fire for an anti-gay post on a social networking site regrets the comments and will resign his seat, he told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday.
Someone hasn't been taking his medication...
The Goat Bagpipes with huge horns & goat head
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Letter: BP, Halliburton knew of potential flaws in Gulf well cement
www.cnn.com
Oil giant BP and Halliburton knew of potential flaws in the cement slurry used to reinforce the oil well below the Deepwater Horizon rig before it exploded in April, according to a letter Thursday from the lead investigator for a federal probe of the Gulf oil disaster.
Headline I made up: "CAST OF JERSEY SHORE LEAK INTO GULF OF MEXICO — New Orleans Residents Complain, "ENOUGH, Already!"
October 28, 2010
Hallowe'en is My Favorite Holiday
27 October 2010
What a madcap day. It was like being rolled too fast down a hill.
Pretty day outside. I hope something nice happens on your end, too. It probably will. Watch out for it.
26 October 2010
It's hard not to be moved by this. A woman finally meets again with a lion she rescued and nursed. Clearly, he remembers.
Videos Posted by Julian Bailey
Sep 16, 2010 by Julian Bailey (Facebook videos)
Hallowe'en is my favorite holiday, because when I knock on the neighbors' doors dressed as a rotting corpse during any other holiday, they act like there's something wrong with me. Arbor Day was particularly depressing.
October 26, 2010
Odd and Amusing
25 October 2010
via Michael A Ventrella: no comment
GOP says compromise not on the agenda if they retake the House
thehill.com
Republicans aren't interested in compromising with President Obama on major issues if they retake the House or Senate, a senior GOP lawmaker said.
odd and amusing.
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24 October 2010
Here's one of Fox's favorite voices making a case for killing the media.
Lt. Col. Ralph Peters on Journalists: 'Kill Them All' « Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place
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Our 13 year old Boy has recently joined Facebook. He really likes video games and Pokemon. If any of you are related to or know people of young age who might like to communicate with him online about these or similar subjects, please drop me a message.
He's very cute, but the best stuff starts at about 5:05 — box diving.
I am Maru - The funniest cat on the planet (with soundtrack)
www.youtube.com
Another excellent Tumblr page...
My Parents Loved Halloween
myparentslovedhalloween.tumblr.com
I would excise the word "ignorant" from the caption as unnecessary, but otherwise I think it's a good exercise in ideational realignment.
Pictures of Muslims Wearing Things
muslimswearingthings.tumblr.com
Former NPR analyst Juan Williams, among other ignorant people, has an irrational fear of Muslims, and thinks you can identify them based on what they look like. Here I will post pictures of Muslims...
October 24, 2010
Hot Damn, We're Going to the Series
23 October 2010
Hot damn, we're going to the Series. I can't believe it.
via Feo Amante:
NPR's disaster: The firing of Juan Williams - USATODAY.com
www.usatoday.com
Disturbing the politically correct equilibrium has become, regrettably, a fireable offense.
Saturday is off to a slow start. Just the way I like 'em.
22 October 2010
via Feo Amante:
Call Me Senator from RightChange on Vimeo.
From Director David Zucker "Call Me Senator." A super funny but sad look at Barbara Boxer and her distaste for our Military.
via Feo Amante:
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October 21, 2010
Weenie Hollow
20 October 2010
dogs = awesome
A dog does think
by David Harold Hunt (FaceBoook videos)
0:38
Giants game over and they won and I survived the stress. And we managed to watch the "Njorl's Saga" Monty Python episode, too — the one where Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion go to visit the Sartres in Paris. Happy children off to bed, happy me off to slip a bendy straw into the cooking sherry.
Very exciting roller-coaster Giants playoff game on right now. I can't quite watch — I have to go in and peek at the television, then go do some other stuff until the curiosity becomes too great and I sneak in again.
FB Folk Song:
If I had a wall, I'd wall some in the morning, I'd wall some in the evening, all over this land. I'd wall about danger, I'd wall out a warning, I'd wall about the love between my brothers and sisters, all over this Facing Book...
October Profile Parade continues:
I got a rock. Oooh, wait...! It's NOT A rock...!
In memory of Benoit Mandelbrot (another "B" we lost too soon), a gallery of fractal art.
Fractal Art - a set on Flickr
www.flickr.com
19 October 2010
In Iceland their October holiday is called "Hjallovin". Everyone drinks pumpkin liquor straight for hours. The last person who can listen to Bjork without weeping uncontrollably is crowned King (or Queen) of Hjallovin, and after several more rounds of drinks, is thrown into a fiery crevice. Then they eat imported dark chocolate.
Still thinking about death. Would being swallowed by a giant python in the depths of a stinking jungle never before entered by humans count as "natural causes"...? Because nothing about that would be artificial.
When we lost Solomon Burke and Barbara Billingsley this month, I almost made a comment here about "Which B will we lose next?" And then Tom Bosley goes. Godspeed you all.
Did you know that when it's Halloween in the Northern Hemisphere it's called Weenie Hollow in Australia and New Zealand? People sneak around neighborhoods in the dark trying not to scare anyone while pushing tiny chocolate bars through other people's mail slots.
October 19, 2010
Bald Man with Rare Giant Barking Shrew
18 October 2010
via Teresa Marovich: Happy me music make.
Gorillaz perform Stylo at Glastonbury 2010
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It will NOT be Christmas soon. Quit saying crap like that to me, people! I'm barely clinging to sanity as it is.
17 October 2010
We had a cold but exciting day on the water today, sailing the bay with family and friends. (It was my folks' 50th wedding anniversary.) Girl, who felt a little queasy on the way out, steered the yacht most of the way back (under supervision) wearing a sly, piratical grin.
October Profile Pictures continue. Here, have a nice steaming cup of What The Hell Is It?
16 October 2010
Goodbye, Barbara Billingsley, my TV mom. She would never let Ward be too rough on the Beaver.
Bald Man with rare Giant Barking Shrew.
October Profile Parade: if Paris Hilton pulled one of THESE out of her purse, I'd definitely back away slowly.
October 16, 2010
Fun-Size Peanut Butter Cup
15 October 2010
I think I have a fun-size peanut butter cup stuck in my corpus callosum. Is that the area of your brain that helps you stop eating peanut butter cups? Because that would explain a lot.
Fabulously fab CALVIN&HOBBES/SPIDER-MAN mash-up.
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Some of my FB friends don't like spiders and other creepy-crawlies. For those who are not inhibited, may I suggest you go to Google Images with the keyword "gasteracantha" to see some truly fabulous spideys.
October Profiles continue. Baaa Ram Ewe THIS!
14 October 2010
Hooray! It's October, the Happiest Month of All! Are you happy? I'm freakin' DELIRIOUS.
October 14, 2010
Alternative Parenting Strategies
13 October 2010
Is eating children really such a terrible thing? I'm just looking at alternative parenting strategies.
Just watched all or most of JAWS and THE EXORCIST lately. Scariest of the two? What do you think? I'm just curious. Both are extremely well made.
Halloween Profile Pic Parade continues. Today's is a Polish movie poster for "ALIEN"...
12 October 2010
Banksy wrote/designed this Simpsons opening couch joke.
I would know nothing about what's happening in the news if it weren't for Taiwanese Animated News.
Colorful Christine electrifies Delaware Electorate
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Even if you're not a football (soccer) fan, you have to appreciate this. Watch how far and how fast this guy goes.
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October 12, 2010
You're Adopted
11 October 2010
Sorry we had to win and make it your last night, Bobby Cox. Great manager, class guy. Baseball will miss you.
I think I have to start using my Hallowe'en profile pictures soon. I'll try to warn everyone so you don't get too scared.
10 October 2010
Nothing definite about tomorrow yet, although I have heard it will almost certainly be a Monday.
Seriously, Universe, why you hatin' on Mike Singletary so bad?
Wow, Paladino's a flaming wad. I thought O'Donnell had it wrapped up, but he may just pip her at the post for Idiot of the Year.
Breaking the news to my Atlanta Braves fan friends...
Girlchild's main nickname comes from her resemblance to a Terminator, but here (getting her hair streaked by Mom) she looks more like a Predator.
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies...you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then—to learn." — T.H. White
Another very silly family dancing display, from a few years back when we only had two dogs. ("Pre-wah", some might even say...)
Video (on Facebook)
by Tad Williams (videos)
3:19
Don't have a picture of our John Lennon's Birthday rock-out dance, but I do have a picture from an earlier family extended jam, at the Music Experience in Seattle. Just imagine me even funkier, and with heavy booty-to-Beatles action and you'll have last night.
9 October 2010
Almost 11 year old Girl proposed a John Lennon's Birthday celebration for tonight — lots of Beatles music and a game of Apples To Apples, losers must dance for the amusement of the winner. I told her I insist on dancing even if I win — ESPECIALLY if I win.
October 9, 2010
Free-Range White People Farm
8 October 2010
via Marti McKenna: Also for my beloved, the family meditatrix.
How Meditation Affects the Gray Matter of the Brain
www.huffingtonpost.com
You're resenting my extreme gorgeousness again, admit it. Look, just enjoy it — admiring me is free to all! (Tad, channeling Dame Edna.)
This is especially for my wife — the dark side of Yorkshire Soul Music.
Quirky News | Orange UK
web.orange.co.uk
A North Yorkshire market town wants to ban a group of buskers who play 'When the Saints Go Marching In' on accordion — badly — eight hours a day.
7 October 2010
A couple of months ago someone on a sports message board was trying to tell me that Tim Lincecum's pitching career had already quote peaked. Ha ha I say and again ha.
A perfect mutant combination of "cute" and "stone killer".
Damn Cool Pics: Beautiful Golden Tabby Tiger
damncoolpics.blogspot.com
I'm posting this to make myself feel better about being a jerk and kicking the door last night.
The 31 Best(Worst) Parenting FAILS Of All Time
nedhardy.com
Want to see a guy totally get photo-bombed by a hippo?
Animal photos weird, sweet, or cool
Smiling hippo wants its picture taken, too.
Initially intended as a depository for weird and icky photos, it soon became a depository of cuteness and oddity. I'll have to start another album sometime of really creepy stuff.
By: Jessica Amanda Salmonson
I got angry last night, kicked the office door and broke it. Act like a @#$% much, Tad?
This is a crazy jam. I don't know what to say. It's art. You have to make your mind up about it. A lot of f-bombing and such, so don't watch it if you're a kid or allergic.
It comes up on their main page, but you have to pick the video. It's the one by Die Antwoord. And I forgot to mention there are a LOT of weenies and a -soupcon- of homophobia.
Pitchfork: TV
pitchfork.com
via Diane L Urbanec: Version two is good but version three will make you cough up a pellet prematurely.
Transformer Owl
www.youtube.com
1 owl. 3 versions.
6 October 2010
We went past a golf course the other day. I told the kids it was a Free-Range White People farm.
"liberals and a ghetto president are the reason for bad polls. people want a president that is about action, take care of immigration over running america stop with excuses."
—thoughtful posted response to an article about the Democrats supposedly "going negative". Well, THAT's solved, then.
I'm sharing this mostly to make sure my wife Deborah sees it...
Joy Behar Rebuttal to Christine O'Donnell Campaign Ad
www.youtube.com
Only a select few of my readers will know how sexy my new profile picture is. Those few should get help immediately.
Jonathan Franzen had an interesting week.
Quirky News | Orange UK
web.orange.co.uk
A London book launch party ended in chaos after an acclaimed author's spectacles were 'kidnapped' and a police helicopter was scrambled.
