Tad Williams's Blog, page 42
October 6, 2010
My Lovecraft is Full of Eels
5 October 2010
These stupid little bigots picked a great spot and I wish they'd got themselves stomped. If they could have afforded the travel, they'd probably be at Yad Vashem screaming anti-semitic insults.
2 accused of hate crime at historic gay bar
www.cnn.com
I love this guy. It's like listening to our ten year old explain how her carrots from dinner wound up carefully wrapped in tissue and hidden in the bottom of the wastebasket. "Project Veritas" my ass — this group is about trying to disseminate false news stories to screw up the political opposition. An old CIA and KGB trick, by the way, and nothing to do with actual journalism...
Woman who stopped CNN 'punk' plan says O'Keefe claims untrue
www.cnn.com
My Lovecraft is full of eels.
October 5, 2010
The Big Dog Has Landed
4 October 2010
This is extra crispy. EXTRA.
Dangerous Minds | Marie Osmond's Dada freakout on 'Ripley's Believe It or Not' TV show
www.dangerousminds.net
via Jessica Amanda Salmonson:
Talking Cat & Seasick Steve "Oh Long Johnson"
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The Big Dog has landed. He is back at his kennel — also known as the Fortress of Permeable Solitude.
I am a lucky guy.
3 October 2010
We're having a really nice time with an extremely nice group of people here in Montreal. My only complaint is that we're not here long enough to see more of the city and environs, but that's nobody's fault but our own bulimic schedules. (We eat deadlines whole and then barf them up again. Fun.)
October 3, 2010
Sincerity is the New Irony
2 October 2010
My lord, my lord, why hast Thou deserted my Giants?
Sincerity is the new Irony.
1 October 2010
We're here but I haven't hooked up my regular keyboard so my posts will read like the downhill bits of Flowers for Algernon...
September 30, 2010
My Little Trade Secret
30 September 2010
We're off. I'll check in with you after I land. Ciao, ragazzi.
29 September 2010
For my more conservative friends: this is why people like me associate the Tea Party movement with racism. Because before their movement had a name, it was based on Fear of a Black President. I saw it in the interviews all during the primaries, people who were terrified of an African American man with an "unusual" name.
Tea Party's roots lie in backlash against Obama
www.cnn.com
Tea & Crackers | Rolling Stone Politics
www.rollingstone.com
This is an article from the October 15, 2010 issue of Rolling Stone. It's taken three trips to Kentucky, but I'm finally getting my Tea Party epiphany...
We're going to Montreal tomorrow for Con*Cept. Apparently there are some people in Francophone Canada whose weekend was going to be so dire they thought it would be improved by listening to me. Sad, or what?
No comment really necessary here.
War Room: James O'Keefe's planned sexual harrassment "prank" goes awry
www.salon.com
The conservative activist planned to secretly film himself "seducing" a CNN reporter
28 September 2010
Am I the only person who thinks it's ominous that this kid accused of murdering Afghani civilians is named Morlock and he's from Wasilla, AK?
Jeremy Morlock, U.S. Soldier, Charged For Murder In Three Afghan Civilian Deaths
www.huffingtonpost.com
Sad day for a lot of us in the SF/Fantasy/Horror field. Our friend, superagent Ralph Vicinanza, died suddenly at too young an age. Condolences and love to his partner and all his friends.
27 September 2010
We were talking about Ronnie Lane earlier...
Ronnie Lane. Ooh la la
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In concert with Slim Chance at the BBC 1974
I'm missing Ronnie Lane (of, among other musical moments, the Faces and Small Faces) today. He made everybody around him better. That might be the best thing you can say about anyone.
People often ask, "Tad, what is it that makes your Facebook postings such a treat for your Friends?" Listen closely and I'll tell you my little trade secret. The whole time I'm writing them I'm picturing myself naked.
September 27, 2010
Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful
26 September 2010
My new look. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
(photo by Andrew Jackson. Wig by God Knows Who...)
My friend Sean Twist sent me this. As my teenage son would say, "This...is...GODLIKE!"
Robot [Hindi] - First Theatrical trailer ***Rajni / Shankar / A R Rahman***
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25 September 2010
I reluctantly bid farewell to the profile pic of a man being murdered by trilobites. I can safely say you won't see anything like that for a while. I think it's time for another silly animal picture, don't you? Wouldn't want anyone to think I was a Serious Person.
September 25, 2010
Creased with Delight
24 September 2010
Tonight our children met Spiny Norman for the first time, and the original Ministry of Silly Walks. Girl was mostly asleep for both — long day — but young teenaged Boy was totally creased with delight.
"Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn."
— Delmore Schwartz
Complex Magazine says this is the #1 "Rock 'n' Roll Fail" of all time.
Watching it does present a compelling case...
Billy Squier "Rock Me Tonite"
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September 23, 2010
Awesome in My Wrath
22 September 2010
I worry about the world sometimes. It's a silly old world and not in the best shape, I know, but I'm still quite fond of it and I'd hate anything bad to happen to it.
My coffee has not yet kicked in. I am not entirely certain I'm on the right planet. Things will get better.
21 September 2010
I'm not "grumpy." I am Awesome In My Wrath.
Tad on Facebook
22 September 2010
I worry about the world sometimes. It's a silly old world and not in the best shape, I know, but I'm still quite fond of it and I'd hate anything bad to happen to it.
My coffee has not yet kicked in. I am not entirely certain I'm on the right planet. Things will get better.
21 September 2010
I'm not "grumpy." I am Awesome In My Wrath.
September 21, 2010
Zebra At Your Car Window Day
20 September 2010
Nostalgia is a wave function sort of thing. Time appears to move forward continuously, and nostalgia is always cresting about a generation behind Time's leading edge.
No, really.
Okay, in my teenage years, these were the albums that were in virtually everyone's house:
one early Elton, MADMAN or TUMBLWEED or (increasingly over the years) GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD.
ditto one early Cat Stevens, usually TILLERMAN or TEASER, occasionally CATCH BULL.
Carole King's TAPESTRY
WOODSTOCK
The Who, TOMMY.
Some Beatles, at least SGT. PEPPER or ABBEY ROAD.
Some Stones, often HOT ROCKS.
James Taylor, SWEET BABY JAMES
first CS&N, or DEJA VU
LED ZEPPELIN II or IV
Most were in every house that had a stereo. Even my friends who were "too hip" — their parents had 'em. This was the portfolio of the average guy or gal, weighted more to the Zeppelin side for guys and the Cat Stevens side for girls.
Okay, kids, Zebra At Your Car Window Day is finally here! Celebrate accordingly, be safe, but have fun!
All right, you ladies of the 1970s. You know who you are. And you had this album, because I saw it in nearly all your rooms and sat and listened to it with you in half of them. So I heard "Moonshadow" pretty much as many times as you did. And I still have a little soft spot for those Teaser and the Firecat years.
Teaser And The Firecat
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1971, trippy animated short film to promote the album by Cat Stevens. Enjoy.
19 September 2010
"As you were, I was. As I am, you will be."
I'd like to sleep for a month straight. Not because I'm so tired, but just because I'd like a long vacation from the demands of reality. I'd like to think differently for a bit. If I can't have that, I'd settle for napping underwater. Or in space.
This is by Walangarri Karntawarra, a painter of the new generation of Australian Aboriginal artists (meaning those who never lived full-time in the bush.) I like this a lot. What's interesting to me is how he uses themes and styles from his parents' generation's work but also modernizes.
Tad on Facebook
20 September 2010
Nostalgia is a wave function sort of thing. Time appears to move forward continuously, and nostalgia is always cresting about a generation behind Time's leading edge.
No, really.
Okay, in my teenage years, these were the albums that were in virtually everyone's house:
one early Elton, MADMAN or TUMBLWEED or (increasingly over the years) GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD.
ditto one early Cat Stevens, usually TILLERMAN or TEASER, occasionally CATCH BULL.
Carole King's...
