Bookity

• New releases: Book Riot (audiobooks)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from BookwyrmKnits.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• 25 books to help you learn about astronomy.
• A poem about online friends. 🙂
• Unicorn bookmarks you can make and buy.

Learn, Do, Make, Think

• “Cat behaviours explained“.
• A tip for picking a name your cat will respond to. (Both Chaos and May will come when I call their names – Chaos with alacrity (“Fud? Fud? Fud?”) and May at a much more leisurely pace.)
• Brexit. (I couldn’t put this in LOL because reasons.)
• How to use journaling to help with anxiety.
• “The myth that knights could barely move in their armor has finally been dispelled“.
• A little tidbit that didn’t make it into the Mr Rogers documentary.
• “Confirmed: The pockets on women’s pants are indeed bullsh*t“.
• Minneapolis is a good place to live for reliable cell service, apparently.
• The lack of asexual representation in mainstream media.
• What happens when calorie counts are included on menus.

Cookity

• Balsamic glaze.
• Black bean corn salsa.
• 10 quick and easy low calorie lunches.
• 10 healthy one-pot recipes.
• Chocolate zucchini cake.

Gluten Free

• Easy muesli.
• Banana oatmeal cookies.
• Best gf snacks for lunchboxes.

Cool

• Yes, this.
• Oh, snap!
• Have I linked to “Space Australian Medicine” before? It blurs.
• “Lily Lake ain’t one of those towns.“
• Would you watch Doctors and Demons?
• That mysterious strand of hair…
• Read the tags before you click through on this one. It’s powerful, but kind of wrenching, too.
• “Dessert, but shot like Murder. I think I’ve found my favorite aesthetic ever.“
• “Fountain pen nibs under a 20x loupe“.
• Gold Medal Park from above.
• The American Swedish Institute.
• Milkjam Minnesota.
• Best. Pedestrian Bridge. Ever.
• “Be a ewe-nicorn!“
• I wonder if that’s spilled Black Cat India Ink?
• Photos from Forbidden Planet (London) Ltd.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Complicated wooden cabinet puzzle.
• “French theme park employs trained birds to pick up cigarette butts“.

Wha…?

• “E. coli bacteria made this image of the Mona Lisa“.
• You can use your phone to play old games directly from floppy disk.

LOL

• “How to finish“.
• “Well out of the blue I just remembered today the time I accidentally joined the cast of The Princess Bride…in the middle of the production.“
• Clumsy lion.
• Cake mistakes, corrected.

Teh Cute

• “Girl visits a shelter and gets adopted“. Flamingos and babies! Baby puffin! Baby red pandas! Tiger and babies! Baby leopards!

Reading Update
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. This was the first Neal Stephenson I’ve read since trying and failing to get into his Baroque Cycle, so I was pleasantly surprised at how compulsively readable this was. It dragged a bit in the middle, but I was sucked in by that point. I would love to retitle it Schrodinger’s Witches: The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.! (Spare your wrists and read the ebook. This seems like it would be extraordinarily confusing in audio.)
Abstract Painting: The Elements of Visual Language by Jane Davies. Excellent book, summed up well by its title. This is one I’ll probably reread over and over, working to absorb the contents into my subconscious mind.

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“Why are all of you upside down?!” -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• “Heaven or Whatever“.
• Candyland, fringe, tie dye, love.
• “Antiheroines are resplendent“.
• Mint, postage, cassette tape.
• Campfire.
• Scorpio.
• Camera, landscape, radio.
• Quotes about story, more or less.
• “Adaptive superpowers“.
• “Made me feel ‘human’ again“.

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“Wha…?” -Chaos, not quite awake, with his second eyelid still retracting

I’m back! 🙂 My class (printing ephemera on the platen press) was great fun. I printed a LOT of stickers. A LOT.

Bookity

• New releases: Tor.com (genre-benders, scifi, fantasy) and Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more linkity from Smart Bitches. And more.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• “10 minutes with Andy Weir“.
• Quotes from and tidbits about James Baldwin.
• When 1984 is getting a little too real…
• To remember, about fairy tales and life.
• DIY book sleeves.
• Dragon bookends.
• Book holders and stands.
• On linguistics in Lord of the Rings (humor).
• “Homophones, weakly“.
• The Jane Austen board game (humor).

Think, Make, Do, Learn

• Good to remember.
• Where the money from #mprraccoon swag is going.
• If you’ve ever wondered what hockey teams do with all of those hat trick hats…
• Advice from a member of the WWII Norwegian Resistance.
• Some anti-fascist cartoons from Dr Seuss.
• On the importance of the White House stenographer.
• “IKEA’s newest catalog challenges the ‘myth of minimalism’“.
• Remember when Robert Downey Jr used to sing on Ally McBeal?
• A random about me meme.

Cookity

• Easy muesli.
• Ideas for healthy work lunches.
• Greek chicken grain bowl.
• Easy taco slaw.
• Easy cast iron skillet strawberry pie.
• S’Mores bark.

Gluten Free

• Beef and broccoli Buddha bowls.
• Spicy Thai chicken and brown rice bowls.
• Quinoa summer stirfry.
• Spinach and feta frittata.
• Blueberry cornbread.
• Blueberry scones.
• Breakfast bars.
• Easy muffins.
• “The best gluten-free snacks to pack in a lunch box“.

Artsy Crafty

• Another semester’s syllabus from thenearsightedmonkey.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• The return of Jean-Luc Picard!
• Trippy photo of the Manitou River.
• What if Darth Vader visited Owen and Beru on Life Day?
• What if Thor visited Mr Rogers?
• 10 hopeful quotes from Mr Rogers. 25 quotes from Mr Rogers.
• More “humans in space” fic.
• What if humans are tiny compared to other races out in space?
• Mosaic of Minnesota bedrock.
• Yes.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• “Meat” by Terry Bisson.
• That is too many ducklings. Put some back.

Wha…?

• I just…
• Motorized handheld dish scrubber.
• “1935 Streamlined Car of the Future“.
• “Eating beef jerky may be linked to manic episodes in some people“.

LOL

• Fanfic trope Venn diagram.
• Meanwhile, at the hardware store…
• “Who knew, not Windows.“
• Relatable post-it comics.
• Cake Wrecky abs cakes.
• I have done this.
• …same.

Teh Cute

• Baby mountain lion! Soggy black kitten! Baby cheetahs! Leopard and babies! Snow leopard and babies! Baby penguin! Baby red panda! Tiger! Tiger and babies! Baby red pandas!

Reading Update
Foolsgold: Making Something from Nothing and Freeing Your Creative Process by Susan G Wooldridge. This was good (it’s bristling with post-it flags), but not as good as Poemcrazy. It does tackle tough subjects, such loss, grieving, and feeling stuck.
The Sketchbook Project World Tour by Steven Peterman & Shane Zucker. A look at pages from Sketchbook Project sketchbooks from all over the world. It was interesting to see what people had done to their books, but also was such a fast read I’m really glad I got it from the library.
Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley. Very good first-person tale of 14-year old Jake, who lives on one of the world’s few dragon preserve parks, and who manages to accidentally and irrevocably change his life on his first solo trip into the park. (Dragons are originally from Australia, so think about the implications for dragon physiology. I’ll wait.)
The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library #1) by Genevieve Cogman. Very good urban fantasy about about a Librarian who gets assigned a very odd trainee on her next world walking mission. (This was recommended by Charles Stross in a post at tor.com about books vaguely similar to the Laundry Files.)
The Masked City (The Invisible Library #2) by Genevieve Cogman. The abruptness of the very close to being a cliffie but not quite ending annoyed me. Fortunately I had the next book checked out already.
The Burning Page (The Invisible Library #3) by Genevieve Cogman. Very good, very thrilling continuation of the series. Kept me up way too late on a work night.
The Lost Plot (The Invisible Library #4) by Genevieve Cogman. Another thriller! This actually felt as if it could be the end of the series. Or not. I think I’d be ok with it ending here.

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*sleepy* -Mayhem

Does she look 12 to you?! She sure doesn’t to me.

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• “Hot Diggity“.
• “You’ll be bright.“
• Serendipitous.
• Packing tape transfer experiment.
• My story in stickers.
• Poetry, palette, pixelated.
• “How To Be An Artist“.
• Artist.
• Pinball, portrait, plate, window.
• “It’s my cubicle and I’ll cry if I want to.“

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“No, I’m just very, very disappointed in you, Mom.” -Chaos

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• “She could not be reached.“
• Blue, picnic, mosaic, pretzel.
• Super boring page!
• Amelia.
• Limits and creativity.
• Monarch migration! (A hint of what it looked like.)
• “I wish that the person…“
• Pretending.
• “So it goes.“
• “Hot Diggity“.

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Melted Mayhem! 🙂