Morning Music: Breakfast In America, Supertramp, 1979

Morning Music: Breakfast In America, Supertramp, 1979

Morning Music: Modern Times, Al Stewart, 1975

Morning Music: Argent, by Argent, 1970

Available now! Lots of goodies (including a couple of mine)!

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Back… We took a little roadtrip and have now returned. Here are a few photographs to give you a taste of what we saw. I’ll do a detailed report soon, maybe next week. For now, recovery.

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Morning Music: Tortoise, by Tortoise, 1994

Kicking Ass Others are doing the careful dissection and analysis of current events, certainly better than me right now. I don’t have the patience anymore. My response to this nonsense is and has been, “well, w…

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One Year In The Supreme Court found its mandate and told the administration no. In ordinary times, this would have been met with said administration backing off, reexamining its goals, and quietly looking for …

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Granger's Crossing: A Novel Amazon.com: Granger's Crossing: A Novel: 9781943075751: Tiedemann, Mark: Books

Still available. If I can break the ceiling, the sequel can go forward:

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Fidelity To The Future: William Gibson’s Neuromancer Of all genres, science fiction seems the most susceptible to anachronism. To “dating.” Stories written a decade or more ago can betray oddities to the contemporary reader that must, to greater of l…

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Morning Music: Earth Lift, Galactic Cowboy Orchestra, 2025

Middle Interim Primary season has begun. Eight states have already held them and the numbers are beginning to come in. November is going to be significant, no matter what the outcome, because it may tell us somet…

An older post, from the first circus. I'm amazed and disappointed in how little has changed:

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Left Bank Books presents STL author & LBB Bookseller Emeritus, Mark W. Tiedemann YouTube video by Left Bank Books

Just a reminder, I published a novel a couple years back....

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Morning Music: It's All Around You, Tortoise, 2004

Words Don’t Matter The message being put forward, especially by the Right, in the aftermath of the shootings in Arizona, is that it is absurd to blame the rhetoric of violence and hatred for the actions of anyone, le…

Something from the Before Time concerning matters relevant to the Now Time

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Crazy Is As…. I’m not sure where I’m going with this, but bear with me.  A bit of confessional time. It’s no secret to anyone who knows me that I’m an atheist.  To put it simply, I basica…

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Taking Cues I’d intended to give this a little more thought, but the events in Arizona have prompted a response now. In the last post, I opined about the atmosphere in the country generated by overheated…

Something from 2011 that, to my despair, remains all too trenchant.

Reading Review, 2025, With Observations About the Future I read 55 books cover to cover in 2025. So many things got in the way, but also I read a handful of bricks, and my research reading was extensive. My count of cover to cover is exactly that, those …

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Highlights etc...

@markwt.bsky.social @dougfranklin.bsky.social @haydent.bsky.social Sean Monaghan Ian Baaske Benjamin Kinney Frank Ward Philip Brian Hall Rich Larson @geoffhart1962.bsky.social Joe Haldeman Ernest Taves Robert F. Young Alex Irvine Lucius Shepard Sally Gwylan Stephen Baxter

3) Sin Eaters by @markwt.bsky.social : aliens arrive on Earth, establish diplomatic relations. Their kids are kidnapped, then freed. Aliens won’t press charges. Finest human minds struggle to understand why. Good exploration of guilt, atonement, motives

2026 full speed ahead!

Happy January 2nd.