UPDATE: It’s Sunday evening, NN10 has ended, and so the live feed has too.

Happy news — next year’s Netroots Nation will be happening right here in the Twin Cities!

Oh, and [...]]]> Many thanks as always to The Uptake.org for providing a live feed from Netroots Nation in Las Vegas this weekend…

UPDATE: It’s Sunday evening, NN10 has ended, and so the live feed has too.

Happy news — next year’s Netroots Nation will be happening right here in the Twin Cities!

Oh, and yes as a matter of fact we DO have a spare bedroom, completely furnished with stuff from IKEA, in which someone is welcome to stay. (All they have to do is assemble a futon frame, nightstand, and table lamp.) See you next June!

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Big momentous history-changing milestone:  

As of  December 13th 2009,  this blog – known as Tild~,  aka  (more accurately) Tildology – is six years old!   Happy Blogiversary to me!

Hard to believe the old thing is still ticking, considering the ever-increasing seldomness of updates.  To celebrate, I rummaged through the junk drawer  media library and [...]]]>

Big momentous history-changing milestone:  

As of  December 13th 2009,  this blog – known as Tild~,  aka  (more accurately) Tildology – is six years old!   Happy Blogiversary to me!

Hard to believe the old thing is still ticking, considering the ever-increasing seldomness of updates.  To celebrate, I rummaged through the junk drawer  media library and pulled some random images from each of the past six momentous years to create  A Tildology Retrospective.

Congratulations, donations, and yes, even gifts are much appreciated.   (Ahem… please take note of the Tip Jar and Tild’s Wish List in the sidebars)

Hey, the way I look at it I’m way too old and way too cranky to keep putting on that stupid pious false-humility act.   No more.   No,  from here on out it’s strictly:      I’m old!  Gimmee stuff, dammit!

Thank you.      Enjoy.

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Be there or be trapezoidal. 

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Be there or be trapezoidal. 

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Honestly, the way you do go on and on and on about imaginary weird stuff sometimes.

Dude.  Same as it ever was.

Sometimes they come back…

In honor of the occasion, I’ve composed a bit of verse.

*ahem*

That is not dead Which can eternal blog And with strange aeons …uhh… Even a dog  may be a frog

Or a hog In the fog On a log File under:  Sothoth, Yog

~~~~ HP Lovecraft would [...]]]>

Sometimes they come back…

In honor of the occasion, I’ve composed a bit of verse.

*ahem*

That is not dead
Which can eternal blog
And with strange aeons
…uhh…
Even a dog  may be a frog

Or a hog
In the fog
On a log
File under:  Sothoth, Yog

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HP Lovecraft would be proud of these efforts, I’m sure.     In fact, were HPL alive today, I’m sure he’d be saying..

LET ME OUT OF HERE!!!
[fingernails frantically scraping on inner casket lid]
LET ME OUT OF HERE!!  AAAAUUUUUGGGHHH!!

Heh heh.   Welcome back, Norwegianity.

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Iddybud was one of the first blogs I ever read, way back in those long [...]]]> I’ve been over at   Blip.fm all day,  playing tunes in honor of MLK day today and the Inauguration tomorrow,  and who should I encounter there but one of my Blogmothers — the legendary Jude Nagurney Camwell, aka Iddybud.

Iddybud was one of the first blogs I ever read, way back in those long ago days lost in the mists of time…    She’s moved once or twice but is still at it;  doing the good work and playing some great music as always.

Go now and enjoy this lovely post she put up today in honor of  Dr. King.    Props to you, Jude!

It was a while in the making.  A few distractions came along.  Little things like:  moving the two kids out of the house and off to college;  celebrating my 56th birthday;  and, oh… there was some minor hubbub about a bunch of Republicans coming to town, and thousands of people marching to protest the [...]]]>

It was a while in the making.  A few distractions came along.  Little things like:  moving the two kids out of the house and off to college;  celebrating my 56th birthday;  and, oh… there was some minor hubbub about a bunch of Republicans coming to town, and thousands of people marching to protest the war,  and a few bad actors with either questionable  or lunatic motives, and of course there was the traditional pepper-spraying,  roughing up and arrest of  hundreds of  witnesses…      But here at last is the blog crate label made specially for our new friends at Dinged Corners , a most excellent blog about baseball cards and the baseball players who sign them and the people who collect them.   Um, the cards not the players.

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O the influence! Behold the sheer raw power of Tild.

Luckily for you, I only use my powers for Good, so check back here often. Any minute now I’m gonna say something influential. Really. I’m pretty sure.

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O the influence! Behold the sheer raw power of Tild.

Luckily for you, I only use my powers for Good, so check back here often. Any minute now I’m gonna say something influential. Really. I’m pretty sure.

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Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy interview. Well, maybe not so much bumpy as meandering. Wayward? Erratic? Not your straightforward point A to point B, that’s for certain.

Greetings, Tild fans! I am an imaginary interviewer, a hypothetical composite of the typical readership of Tild’s blog, aka Tild~, or tildology.com [...]]]>

Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy interview.
Well, maybe not so much bumpy as meandering. Wayward? Erratic? Not your straightforward point A to point B, that’s for certain.

Greetings, Tild fans! I am an imaginary interviewer, a hypothetical composite of the typical readership of Tild’s blog, aka Tild~, or tildology.com to be exact. I’m a mashup of all the folks who tend to show up here:

…The woman in Georgia with a cold who’s looking for information about nose washing;
…The guy in Dubai who wants to read about bad girls who don’t keep their tape sticky;

…The She-Blogger fan in Toronto;

…The folks in the UK who can’t get enough of Laurel & Hardy’s “Way Out West” dance;

…One of the hapless clods who keep trying to hotlink to the wily strawman picture so that they can add it to their comments and thereby look totally super-bitchin’ in those endless flame war threads at FARK or the Something Awful forums; .

…The many admirers of Easter Jesus’ chocolatey goodness;

And the people who come here looking for Meerkat Manor family trees

or for a bit of Minnesota-specific political snark , be it about prominent local prig Katherine Kersten , Minuteman-wannabe Dick “Rambo” Day, or notorious now ex-MnDOT commissioner and fandancer Carol Molnau,

…or maybe just for a little cheesecake.

Whatever you’ve come here for, you’ve no doubt noticed that it’s been pretty quiet around here for quite a while now. We’re lucky to get one new post a week. What’s the deal with that?

Look! There’s Tild now. Let’s ask her.

Imaginary Typical Tildology Reader: Hey! Tild! It’s 4:30 in the morning. What are you doing up?

Tild: Oh, hi. Hey, if you’re one of those idiots looking for the strawman picture, goddammit will you PLEASE learn how to save images to your own server?! Use your own bandwidth for a change, asshole!

ITTR: Umm, excuse me Miz Tild, but I am most certainly not one of those idiots. What I am, in fact, is an Imaginary Typical Reader of your blog, come to interview you and find out what’s next in the exciting ongoing history of tildology.com.

Tild: You are? Hmm. Do you mean to tell me that the typical reader of my blog is the disembodied head of Agnes Moorhead’s even snider younger sister inexplicably floating in the stratosphere next to a “flying wing” airplane?

ITTR: You tell me. You picked this image to be the ITTR avatar.

Tild: Oh. Yeah. Well, alrighty then. Never mind! What was the question again? Why am I awake at 4:30 AM? Well, my youngest kid the high school senior is in the high school’s Concert Choir which is going to Washington DC for four days, and they needed to be at the high school at 4 this morning to board the buses to the airport. I’ll never get back to sleep now, so I guess I’m up for the duration.

ITTR: Aha. So then. Please tell us: What have you been up to lately? Sure hasn’t been blogging.

Tild: Well, you do know that I have a full time day job, right?

ITTR: Yes, I’ve gotten that impression over the years, but you’ve never really described what it is that you do. So, what exactly is it that you do?

Tild: I work for a large corporation; a big player in an industry that’s run for profit but really shouldn’t be. The mitigating factor for me is that the particular division that I work in is more or less a watchdog unit. We investigate the billing habits of the purveyors of our industry’s services. Our work is to keep those purveyors honest — or, you could say that in an ethically challenged industry we try to make sure that its practitioners adhere to the laws, such as they are, and to industry standards, imperfect tho they may be. That fact helps me sleep at night, I gotta admit. You know, because I feel like in my little corner of the industry I’m more a part of the solution and not so much a part of the problem.

ITTR: Wow, that’s quite discreetly phrased, I must say. Can you describe what you do there?

Tild: Sure. I gather data from various sources, convert the data into the formats used by several databases, and upload that data. One might say that I’m a data wrangler.
Yeehaw!

ITTR: Gosh! Sounds fascinating!

Tild: Uh huh. You said it, not me. I’ve also been working part time at a book store since last fall. The end result of all this toil and trouble is that I haven’t had huge amounts of free time to devote to blogging. Or when I do have some time, I often don’t have any energy for it.

[TO BE CONTINUED...]

This is all really just a question of hats.

At any given moment, when scrutinizing the stories Michael Brodkorb posts at MDE the question is not, a la Watergate What did the president know and when did he know it? but rather:

Which hat is Brodkorb wearing and when did he start wearing [...]]]>

This is all really just a question of hats.

At any given moment, when scrutinizing the stories Michael Brodkorb posts at MDE the question is not, a la Watergate What did the president know and when did he know it? but rather:

Which hat is Brodkorb wearing and when did he start wearing it?

It’s a good question and one that should have been raised long before now, and by a lot more people, particularly those  in local media outlets.

Brodkorb now seems to think that asking questions is the same thing as attacking MDE:

You are able to attack my work for Mark Kennedy, because FEC rules require expenditures to be public ally reported.  You are able to see that I was paid a one-time fee from Bachmann’s campaign, because it was publicly disclosed. You are able to attack me for my work with the Campaign for St. Paul’s Future, because it was publicly disclosed.

No, Michael, you’ve got this wrong.  The post at Minnesota Monitor does not attack MDE over your payments from the Kennedy and Bachmann campaigns. Mentioning publicly disclosed data and asking questions relating to that data is not necessarily an attack.  However did you happen to arrive at that mistaken conclusion?

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