celebrations « Tild~

Hello One and All

Well, I’m back — from a long week’s vacation which included road trips to Wisconsin & Iowa, completion of a couple fairly major home renovation projects, and celebrating my 59th birthday by going to see Steely Dan at the State Fair. A lovely time even tho it rained pretty much all through the concert [...]

Vamping, Glorious Fourth edition

We’re just vamping for time here, until all the great new posts Tild promised to write actually show up. Today special guest vamp Vampy Theda Liberty sez: “Have a happy, safe and fun Independence Day, kids, and don’t forget to say Welcome To Earth when you’re punching the invading space aliens’ lights out. [...]

Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey, Goodbye

…and Good Riddance.

Yeah, still feeling 2L4O (Too Liberal For Obama), but nevertheless IMO we had a national moment of emotional release last night, and today I’m still liking this sign I saw at alicublog:

Separated at birth?

Don Blankenship, recently retired (Dec 30th 2010) ex-CEO of Massey Energy

and

Debonair bon vivant Reginald Van Gleason III

(Don Blankenship should only be so hilarious)

Happy New Year, everybody!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsK1yxO4LWg

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Labor Day links

When blue-collar pride became identity politics

On Labor Day, Rightbloggers Denounce Labor Day, Unions, Minimum Wage, Etc

How Companies Turn People Against Unions

The Real Say on Pay

A Century Later, Teddy Roosevelt’s Speech on Corporate Power

Growing Inequality Threatens Middle Class and Democracy

America’s Biggest Jobs Program: The Military

Labor [...]

God Jul

So, night before last at around 8pm I suddenly had this brilliant idea: I would go down to the basement and search through about a dozen steamer trunks and footlockers to find ALL of the family slides; find ONE PARTICULAR SLIDE out of hundreds no, make that well over a thousand; convert the [...]

Now we are six

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 [...]