Reading Update

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• On reviewing books online. (via Sunita)
• Ray Bradbury quotes.
• Some spelling humor, coffee mug style.
• Lovely art and bookish quotes. Maybe I’ve already used this one before, but oh well. 🙂
• Geode and agate bookends.
• 10 funny poems about life and love.
• Hennepin County Library links to LGBTQIA+ resources.
• President Obama’s recent reading list.

Think, Learn, Make, Do

• “The science behind the summer solstice“.
• Moths who use the planet’s magnetic field to navigate at night.
• How a fire pole between the Earth and the Moon would (or wouldn’t) work…
• “Why it’s harder to think in the summer heat“.
• Brilliantly simple climate visualization.
• “Why ‘finding your passion’ isn’t enough“.
• Koko the gorilla is dead.
• Hotspots of antivaxxers.
• Truly, this is the darkest timeline.
• “What is a constitutional crisis?“
• On “Freddish, the special language Mr Rogers used when talking to children”.
• “Won’t You Be My Neighbor? review: Kindness shouldn’t feel this subversive“.

Cookity

• Balsamic chicken Cobb salad. (via The Kitchn)
• 25 Mediterranean recipes.
• 20 recipes using black beans.
• 10 easy grilled chicken recipes.
• Tofu tikka masala.
• Three-ingredient strawberry nice cream.
• Grilled Rice Krispie treats.
• Orange-scented olive oil cake.
• “Chocolate and sea salt-covered, super-sized Pocky sticks“.

Gluten Free

• Edible cookie dough.

Artsy Crafty

• “Sketchbooks help you remember“.

Cool

• An interesting story started by writing-prompt-s. And another!
• You can reach the roof! (Plus a new recap of the saga of #mprraccoon.)
• Scrabble tile rack lamp.
• The New Zealand All Blacks and Black Ferns rugby teams’ new jerseys stretch to reveal rainbow colors to promote diversity.
• Yes, thank you so much, friends who live in my computer! 🙂
• “You are no more or less special than anyone else“.

Cool or Wha…?

• Maple cotton candy.
• The Saint Paul Saints are going to play as the Saint Paul Raccoons on June 26…
• HAL 9000 USB stick.
• Flying, hands-free umbrella.

Wha…?

• Australian “Antarctic researchers are having more solstice fun than you”. Um, just no. That is crazy!
• Grapes that taste like cotton candy. (Presumably NOT like maple-flavored cotton candy.)
• Scratch’n’sniff stamps.

LOL

• “Nude vampire with gloves“. (Completely safe for work.)
• xkcd on GDPR. (Right-click/long-press for caption.)

Teh Cute

• Kitten! Baby owl! Sitatunga and baby! Mountain goat and baby! Baby feathertail gliders!

Reading Update
Journal Spilling: Mixed-Media Techniques for Free Expression by Diana Trout. Reread. I might like this more than I did the first time I read it three years ago! Original review: Very good overview of art journaling techniques, complete with prompts at the end. “Spilling” refers to writing (or creating an art entry) without thinking about it – basically stream-of-consciousness. I liked this book enough that I’ve ordered a used copy for myself.

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*being beautiful* -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂 More art journaling pages than usual because my tumblr queue was getting out of hand…

• ICAD warmups.
• “More than a single story“.
• “Art can connect all of us…“
• “How to print a skyscraper“.
• Play.
• “I am you, you are too“.
• “…too hot to breathe today.“
• More ICAD warmups.
• Last of the ICAD warmups.

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“I do not accept this excuse of ‘working’ for why the laptop is taking my space on your lap!” -Chaos

Bookity

• New releases: Tor.com (genre-benders, scifi, fantasy)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more.
• “The importance of contemporary poetry“.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• “50 must-read nonfiction audiobooks under 10 hours“.
• “50 must-read books about neurodiversity“.
• On the use of “squick” in fandom.
• The future of computer-assisted novel writing?
• Hogwarts houses working together.
• Luna Lovegood, tattoo artist.
• On the importance of storytelling.

Learn, Think, Make, Do

• “9 ocean facts you don’t know but should“.
• Woe the baobabs. 🙁
• Do bees understand zero?
• On figuring out the whole ace/aro thing.

Cookity

• Zucchini breakfast casserole.
• Buffalo chickpea salad.
• 25 easy vegan recipes.
• Easy blender lemon curd.
• Chewy chocolate meringues.
• Deep-dish chocolate chip skillet cookie.

Gluten Free

• Mrs Fields’ style chocolate chip cookies.
• Chocolate wafer cookies.
• Classic icebox cake.
• 25 gluten-free desserts.

Artsy Crafty

• How to make a TARDIS journal.
• “A guide to Tombow dual brush pen palettes and colors“.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• On acknowledging your emotions.
• “When your number is called“.
• Pianos on Parade. (via stuffaboutminnesota)
• Meet Minneapolis.
• Spoonbridge & Cherry.
• Downtown Minneapolis.
• Minnesota State Representative Ilhan Omar is in a Maroon 5 music video.
• I’m imagining, Little Free Library.
• The story of BabyTodd. The sequel.
• Steel turned into lace.
• “Firefly: 15 years later, a look back“.
• Linkity from kmkat. And more.

Cool or Wha…?

• Things that I did not expect this week – the drama of #mprraccoon! Thankfully it had a happy ending. Fan art and t-shirts available…
• Roof dragon.
• I think this mug look neat, but I would probably break off the crystals within hours. I’m clumsy.
• Bob Ross sleep meditation.
• Augmented reality to help you preview nail polish colors.

Wha…?

• No big deal, just potentially invalidating an awful lot of studies involving lab rats. (Of course, if you go to the source, this is from four years ago.)
• Sawblade launching handheld catapult.
• “Domino’s is fixing America’s crappy roads for pizza safety“.
• Broccoli coffee.
• OMG.

LOL

• That’s a lot of goats.
• Awww.
• Other restaurant chains had a delightful time with IHOP changing its name to IHOB.
• That cat is not so good at catching Q-tips.
• The Codex of Privacy.
• A guide to common birds of the western US.
• Animal cookies.
• Surprised red pandas.
• A Simon’s Cat short.
• Humans Are Weird, again, simply for the “strongest castle in the solar system” bit.
• Some common hazards.
• xkcd has some ideas for a new Presidential line of succession. (Hover cursor/long-press for caption.)
• “Cookie mountain“.

Teh Cute

• Happy cat! Baby white bison! Penguins and babies! Kitten! Baby cheetah! Baby bobcat!

Reading Update
Wildly into the Dark: Typewriter Poems and the Rattlings of a Curious Mind by Tyler Knott Gregson. Good collection of short poems that I didn’t quite connect with.
The Repurposed Library: 33 Craft Projects That Give Old Books New Life by Lisa Occhipinti. Very good look at how to transform old books into all sorts of things, such as lamps, a chandelier, a fireplace screen, an ebook reader cover, and more.
Collage Art: A Step-by-Step Guide and Showcase by Jennifer L Atkinson. Good collection of interesting collage techniques, including using collagraphy, woven paper, fabric, and assemblage. For a book from 1996, it definitely managed a mostly timeless feel.
the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace. Very good, most likely haunting collection of poetry. Some of the poems resonated all too well.

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“You stay right there, May.” -Chaos

“But WHY, big kitty??” -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• “What we play is life.“
• Wind and library cards and pumpkin carvers.
• Writing writing writing.
• Rainbow scribble doodle!
• Undersavers, paper towel, implosion.
• Cherry tangerine crossword.
• Stamp testing.

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*BLANK* -Chaos

My neighborhood had a fiber outage during most of my linkity time – and I love you guys, but not enough to stay up really late to do linkity when I have to work the next day! 😀

“Hold still, May! *SLURP*” -Chaos

*purring* -Mayhem