Tad Williams's Blog, page 56
December 10, 2009
Tad on Facebook
10 Dec 2009
On schedule with the Great Final Thrash. Finished proofing the manuscript tonight, tomorrow is Appendix and Headers and phoning in the corrections. My reward for finishing SHADOWRISE will be plunging back into ORDINARY FARM 2 and SHADOWHEART rewrites.
9 Dec 2009
Question to contemplate: Not that I'm not TOTALLY SURE that Facebook is going to, like, LIVE FOREVER...I'm just wondering in what highly science-fictional social arena will we all be meeting, say, twenty years from now...
October 26, 2009
Daily Diary Catches
10/25/09
From: srmarra@dumdidum.net
Date: October 25, 2009 3:41:48 PM PDT
To: "Deborah Beale" deborah.shazam@batnet.com
Subject: Re: Episode 2 video
I've not up loaded yet. Deb, have U had chance to review what I Wrote for email blast for Tues?
Thanks
Sm
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
Hey Steve - I'm getting to it right now - I'm wading through emails and stuff.
I have just made the horrifying discovery that the wrongful-death lawsuit is coming to court the week of World Fantasy Con ...
October 18, 2009
Daily Diary Catches
10/18/09
Betsy Wollheim sent me this, and I love it....
From MAD magazine #43, 1958:
I Wandered Lonely as a Clod
I wandered lonely as a clod,
Just picking up old rags and bottles,
When onward on my way I plod,
I saw a host of axolotls;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
A sight to make a man's blood freeze.
Some had handles, some were plain;
They came in blue, red pink, and green.
A few were orange in the main;
The damndest sight I've ever seen.
The females gave a sprightly glance;
The male ones all...
October 5, 2009
Daily Diary Catches
10/5/09
Back to The Siddhattha Gotama Buddha Sasana Network
Discussion Board Topic View
Topic: Reincarnation & Rebirth
Displaying posts collected by Deb whose fantasy-loving, parentally practicing * imagination was tickled by this. And I love the whole idea of "further becoming," I've been trying to frame this in relation to YA fiction for a while. For me it's about the "further becoming" of those years.
*We've had to discuss some of this with the Son of the family, owing to past anxieties...
September 29, 2009
Daily Diary Catches
9/29/09
Belting this out between the demands of the day. Tad is entirely chained to his desk. He reminds me of Madonna in the 'Express Yourself' video – chained to her desire, as she once put it. Tad's chained to his joy and he's chained to his sins. I'm feeling rather Blakean today.
The house is quiet. Right now, sleeping, Tad is a great big heap of pillows and dogs, with just one arm visible, holding the lot in place. Somehow that makes me think, Tad is in his pit…
We are working like...
September 18, 2009
A Middle-School Kid Laments His Homework
Mile by mile
It's a trial,
But ---
Inch by inch,
It's a cinch!
So sung a little Clod of Clay,
Trodden with the cattle's feet,
But a Pebble of the brook
Warbled out these metres meet:
Inch by inch
It's hell
Mile by mile
Still hell
[ Written during the homework hell hour of the day :]
May 28, 2009
The Long Goodnight
One of the most astounding things about children is how much like actual people they are, and how quickly that happens. Our two, Boy and Girl, showed their idiosyncratic selves pretty much from the get- go. Deborah was giving me reports about Girl when she was in utero – “She’s really got a will,” Deborah reported.
(She should know, since her own stubborness shaped her and helped to get her where she is today. Which is across the room as I write this, but I mean it in a more general way – it got
April 28, 2009
LOL WTF?
It’s easy to go the Andy Rooney route with things that are new – to feign incomprehension, to exaggerate, to make fun. And it would be easy to do that with internet-speak or text-speak, which is becoming more and more a part of our lives, and has been since the late 1980s (with a big spike here in the 21st century.)
Interestingly, the very people who brought us the internet in the first place, the US military, brought us the last set of acronyms that became near-permanent parts of the language,
April 4, 2009
Full of Something
A friend who came to our house the other day characterized it as “full of life.” In many cases, that’s a polite euphemism for “messy and overcrowded.” In our case, it’s also a euphemism for “hideously noisy.” This is particularly true at the moment because we have a boarding beagle.
No, nothing to do with big wave surfing out at Mavericks and “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” Some other friends have gone out of town and their girl-beagle, Piper, is staying with us. For those keeping score at hom
March 25, 2009
NO NET!
We are lost deep in the jungles of Incommunicado, going on five days now without an internet connection. This message is being written on the belly of a shaved white mouse, which will then travel as a pet. I am smuggling these words out with the help of the mouse's owner, an itinerant gypsy orthodontist who prefers to remain anonymous. I am praying that it will reach civilization and those I hold so dear.
Five days! Five unholy days without the net! I suspect a plot -- the first blow, no doubt,
