Tad Williams's Blog, page 48
May 10, 2010
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10 May 2010
Middle school talent festival. Girl rocked the whole donut shop with a really good song of her own composition. Our friend Scott Chavez recorded the music for her and she just sang the heck out of that pup.
Last sentence (slightly edited) of the last page of the Shadowmarch books:
"What the slumbering gods thought of all this...is of course recorded only in the Book of the Fire in the Void, that great story which the living, O dreamer, will not be allowed to read until their...
May 9, 2010
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9 May 2010
Here sits Deborah's motherly contribution to the world (I helped.) One of my favorite pics of Boy and Girl, from about nine years ago or so when they were quite wee.
Hopi Crow Mother kachina. Happy Moms Day!
Happy Mothers Day to all of you people who had or have mothers. And those of you who have mothered in turn, here's to you extra-specially. Moms are the best.
8 May 2010
Boy has given into the new regime with EXTREME reluctance, but he still wants us to know that we are...
May 8, 2010
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7 May 2010
My son, unhappy with a disciplinary decision, is leaving green post-its all over the house that say "I hate you, dad."
Ah, family life...
Cheering thoughts for the insecure...
Hyperbole and a Half: Things That Can Make You Feel Like an Idiot Almost Instantly
Deb was talking in her sleep. I asked her what was going on and she said, "Oh, just...tiny flying meatloafs." Then she smiled with her eyes still closed and said, "Sorry, I think I'm still a little asleep. I mean meat...
May 6, 2010
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5 May 2010
Welcome to the democratic aether where all voices are equal no matter how sublime, undistinguished, or inane.
When one of the dogs would not cuddle her, Deborah began vigorously seducing one of the others to come join her instead, slandering the first dog right and left. It was like a Tennessee Williams play but with more shedding.
May 5, 2010
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4 May 2010
Okay, Facebook. You tricked me. I admit defeat. Buggers. (But I just keyed your car in the parking lot.)
Facebook is grumpy with me. Don't know why. Hey, Facebook, don't hate me because I'm beautiful...!
Is there a reason Facebook won't let me post a status in (rudimentary) German? Is it trying to prevent me from posting secret messages to my tiny pro-silliness activist network in Hamburg and Tübingen?
Does anyone know why Facebook won't let me post "Arbeit muss sein" as a...
May 2, 2010
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2 May 2010
If loving salsa on a Sunday afternoon is wrong, I don't wanna be right...
Our youngest nephews spent the night last night. I am reminded again of this important fact: children are crazy. And not just a little, but by any definition. Thank goodness I was never a children.
1 May 2010
I am (metaphorically) killing the wabbit. Slowly.
May 1, 2010
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30 April 2010
Burning the late-afternoon oil on SHADOWHEART. Other oil varieties to be burned later. This book will not lie down and die!
Hello...? Maybe the greatest video ever? Holla!
Biz Markie - Just A Friend - on Dailymotion
I forgot. What's "outside"?
29 April 2010
Here is Boy, amusing himself during last night's middle school poetry prize ceremony by covering his leg with little scraps of torn paper.
April 28, 2010
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28 April 2010
You want pointless pugs? You GOT pointless pugs...!
Thank goodness nothing ever bothers me, because today's Giants game was a bit like being kicked in the guavas.
Look, don't even ask me. I just like to share things. It's a sickness.
"Last week, President Obama gave a speech in New York City about his plan to reform these rules on Wall Street, you know? And one embarrassing moment. When the head of Goldman Sachs was going through security, he was asked to empty...
April 27, 2010
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27 April 2010
"Since the Icelandic volcano obviously needs a virgin sacrifice and the Catholic Church obviously needs new leadership, the Pope must volunteer to jump in the volcano. Pontiff, don't think of it as endorsing paganism — think of it as supersizing Ash Wednesday." –Bill Maher in his "New Rules" segment
My office is a shell that I have built around myself like a caddis fly, book by souvenir by paper by whatsit until the tad-stuff is many layers thick. Which is all right. But I...
April 26, 2010
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25 April 2010
Going to play music. First thing I've done other than working and Dad-ing for weeks. Don't tell anyone.
Be her today. At least for a minute.
24 April 2010
We are the Shame of the Gentiles. My son had no slacks to wear to a bar mitzvah. The invitation specifically said, "no jeans." He almost went in shorts and a sports coat, but eventually we had to sign off on the jeans. We are the reason goyim get a bad name.
chipswow rules. Here she covers a Nelly song on her ukulele, but w...
