Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today we’ll be catching up with Your Face Is Going To Freeze Like That Guy (YFIGTFLTG). (Don’t forget that you can hover your cursor/long-press on the covers to see how I used the book title in this story.)

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be a

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in black

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with bad ideas and no

s.

Well then!

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“I have sparkly socks to bathe on – today I do not care about naughty boys!” -Mayhem

Randonymity

• Being an adult means new appliances (cooktop and wall oven) are very exciting!

“We claim Mount Appliance for the black kitties!!” -Chaos and Mayhem

Contest

• Becky Black is giving away an ebook copy of her freshly released Tempting the Stars (Red Dragon #3). Closes 9 am GMT, February 28.

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (UF/romance) and Tor.com (genre benders, fantasy, scifi, UF/PF/horror)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• Becky Black with tips for writing a synopsis.
• Getting the most out of a Scribd subscription.
• Choose your own Shakespearian adventure. (via ofgeography)
• A dress printed with the first chapter of Harry Potter. (via The Mary Sue)
• Weird habits of famous writers.
• Old English insults.
• “Stories of the past and future“. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• Lusting After the Left Shark: An Erotic Comedy. (I wish I was kidding.)
• Cats who won’t let their owners read in peace.

Do, Think, Make, Learn

• Google won’t allow “adult material” on Blogger as of March 23. Or maybe they will…
• “The troubled history of the foreskin“.
• What would happen if you attached a flamethrower to your car to clear snow?
• 15 interesting things about flamingos.
• If you’re curious about llamas after yesterday’s shenanigans…
• Chiles.
• About the FCC’s Net Neutrality decision.
• How the LEGO Oscars came to be and directions for making your own LEGO Oscar.
• The dress is blue and black. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text on the second link.)

Cookity

• Chile and sausage oven frittata.
• Chicken and wild rice bake.
• 23 make-ahead lunches for work.
• Curried vegetable and chickpea stew.
• Spiced oven fries with garlic spread.
• Blueberry pie overnight oats.

Gluten Free

• Slow cooker chicken and dumplings.
• Irish beef stew.
• Pull-apart garlic knots.
• Waffle churros con chocolate.

Crafty

• Crochet yourself a mermaid’s tail lapghan. (via CRAFT)
• Knitting linkity from kmkat and knittyBlog.

Cool

• Wintery photo of New York City.
• Frozen Niagara Falls.
• “Team Angry Cat”, another amazing essay by thefourthvine, this time about disability and support.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Flux Capacitor version of Yahtzee.
• Game of Thrones version of Monopoly.
• Cthulhu-themed engagement ring. (via The Mary Sue)

Wha…?

• Butter-flavored Kit Kats. (via The Kitchn)
• Cotton candy Oreos?
• Creme egg cookies and Easter grass Twizzlers.
• Girl Scout cookie ice cream bars and Taco Bell sauce packet chips.
• Rent a Hungarian village for $750/day.
• Superhero shoehorns.
• The Wankband.

LOL

• Game of Thrones Season 4 blooper reel.
• Baby shower cake wrecks.
• Shake up in the Berry Club. (via pipervaughn)
• How to give your child a “proper” sports name. (via hazel-3017)
• Cats going outside for the first time. (via elvenenchantress)
• Not actually Ceiling Cat…

Teh Cute

• Lions and babies! Red pandas! Kitty toes!

Reading Update
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo. I read the first several chapters, then couldn’t continue because the writing was so repetitive. Plus there doesn’t seem to be anything in the book that you couldn’t learn simply by reading all the chapter subheadings via “Look Inside!” on Amazon. And if you do that, you avoid all the repetition!

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Mayhem – stoned on socks?! Possibly even drooling…

 

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Congrats to Dianna, who won Chyna Doll (Horizons #4) by Mickie B Ashling! Chyna Doll is being released today by Dreamspinner Press.

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Random bonus picture from my weekend. I call it “Pinata Aftermath” – only five minutes earlier, this monkey had a body:

I’m still puzzled why a yarn designer looked at this colorway (blue/green/brown/black) and decided it needed hints of pink (not visible in the photo), plus sparkles. Yes, all of the little light-colored flecks are sparkles. Link to Ravelry project page.

“My goodness! MORE socks?! What is going on around here?!” -Mayhem

“Mmmmm… sparkly socks…” -Mayhem

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Congrats to Dianna, who won Chyna Doll (Horizons #4) by Mickie B Ashling! Chyna Doll will be released by Dreamspinner Press on February 23.

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Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (UF/romance)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• Automatically send books from Dropbox to your Kindle with Kindlebox.
• A new Dr Seuss book will be out this July.
• Authorly linkity from Becky Black.
• Kris talks about social media and reader/author relationships.
• “On the interchangeability of books“.
• “Author beware: Do you make it hard for a reader to buy your books?“
• “Depression: Psychology lessons from Harry Potter“.
• Drama in historical typefaces.
• Fiction genres plotted on a giant poster.
• Cool bookmarks. (via wilwheaton)
• Love letters from your writing. (via blue-spruce)
• It’s never quite the same when you reread a childhood favorite…
• How to tell if you’re in a Hemingway novel. Or a Bronte novel. Or a Jane Austen novel. Or a Charles Dickens novel. Or a Victor Hugo novel. Or a Henry James novel. Or a Regency romance novel. Or a Gothic horror novel. Or lesbian pulp fiction. Or a Haruki Murakami novel. Or…
• “10 worst misconceptions about medieval life you’d get from fantasy books“.
• Color-coded library. (via Roya)

Think, Make, Do, Learn

• “Can a computer change the essence of who you are?” (via blue-spruce)
• Keep track of all the space probes.
• What if the Moon was replaced by a black hole of the same size?
• “The miracle of Minneapolis“. Mayor Becky Hodges responds to the article.
• Most popular videos from each of the 10 years that YouTube’s been around.

Cookity

• Nutella stuffed deep dish chocolate chip skillet cookie. (via sheercompulsion)
• Nutella cheesecake mousse. (via The Kitchn)
• Chocolate moon cake.
• Homemade nut butters. (via maderr)
• Shrimp with white beans, spinach, and tomatoes.
• Lamb with dark chocolate pepper sauce.
• Rajma chawal (kidney beans with rice).
• Thai stuffed sweet potatoes with red curry peanut sauce. (via The Kitchn)
• 21 citrus recipes.

Gluten Free

• Glazed chocolate biscuit doughnuts.
• Corn flake chocolate chip marshmallow cookies.
• Yeast-free pizza crust.

Crafty

• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Feminist Cthulhu.
• Geeky Willow pattern plates. (via maderr)
• Harry Potter Funko Pop! figures. (via The Mary Sue)
• Best Spiderman movie ever? (Featuring a giant husky/malamute.)
• San Francisco in black and white timelapse.
• Five year of the Sun timelapse.
• Periodic table quilt made by a robot.
• Hyperbole and a Half stationery and journals.
• Astronaut official portrait, Jedi style. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy style. Pirates of the Caribbean style (pdf). Reservoir Dogs style (pdf). (via Tor.com)
• Creative steps. (via pipervaughn)
• Watercolors of cats.

Cool or Wha…?

• Viking longboat table. (via puckling)
• TARDIS Murphy bed. (via wilwheaton)
• Etch-A-Sketch notebook.
• Giant Tetris cushions.
• Star Trek captain’s chair pool float.
• Pen that writes with chocolate.

Wha…?

• Sheep cafe.
• Fake baby can cozy.
• Remotely rock your baby to sleep using your phone.
• Bacon-wrapped pizza.
• Oven specifically for Girl Scout cookies.
• Chewbacca Furby.
• Muscular [partial body of a] boyfriend body pillow, complete with nipple – just one. You’ll understand (as much as is possible) when you see the picture.
• Wearable “odor removal device”.
• “Pat Robertson says demons can curse your unborn child through Facebook“.

LOL

• Best (feline) Valentine’s wish.
• This meteorologist really, really loves thundersnow.
• Degrees of [cereal bowl] desperation. (via toewses)

Teh Cute

• Baby tiger! Baby penguins! Black cat!

Reading Update
Mario Lemieux: The Final Period by Mario Lemieux & Tom McMillan. Interesting, coffee table style autobiography of Le Magnifique that was heavy on the photos, light on text. I was perfectly ok with that. Of course, after this was published in 1997, Lemieux made another comeback, so this was actually not quite his final period.

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“What?” -Mayhem

Ravelry project page.

Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today we’ll be catching up with Hint of a Plumber’s Crack Guy (HoaPCG).

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led to

, who felt very bad for accidentally

during his

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The speedy end!

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“What socks? All I see is another naughty boy.” -Mayhem

Ravelry project link.