Bookity

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Inkophile’s favorite Noodler’s inks.
• “New proposed legislation in Missouri to censor public library materials“.
• “Inside the spectacular implosion at the Romance Writers of America“.
• “Where does RWA go from here?“
• “How reading Sir Terry Pratchett helped me through my depression“.
• “The case for rereading books“.
• Goodbye, Christopher Tolkien.
• Song titles as pulp novels.
• Toilets designed to look like books. (via BOOK RIOT)

Do, Think, Make, Learn

• NASA on 2019 being the second hottest year on record.
• “Who put the navel in navel oranges?“
• “We checked.”
• 7 billion year old interstellar stardust found.
• Malalai of Maiwand.

Cookity

• “101 easy dinners that start with broth“.
• “50 slow-cooker recipes to set and forget“.
• 24 easy dinners.
• Instant Pot chicken ramen.
• Simple Pad Thai.

Gluten Free

• “Pop Tarts“.
• Easy cinnamon rolls.

Artsy Crafty

• “22 practices to cultivate and nurture creativity“.

Cool

• Amazing photos of a bird of prey (osprey??) fishing.
• Bison!
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• AIs being named by AIs.
• Hotella Nutella.

Wha…?

• Long neck avocados.
• Pink flamingo chair.
• “White House tweets ‘First snow of the year’ on same day it hits 70[F] in Washington, DC“.

LOL

• Remember that month in the 90s when Gregorian chants were big?
• Whoopsy!
• “Packbonding with your human coworkers”.
• Living with cats.
• The message the Enterprise gets when they try to contact a Ferengi ship…
• “Truck spills dice, deals 216,000d6 bludgeoning damage to freeway“.
• When you’re trying to speak a non-native language and you forget critical words.
• How did you celebrate Appreciate a Dragon Day yesterday? With cake?

Reading Update

• Glorious, glorious Good Omens fanfic! 😀

“Yes? Why are you pestering me?” -Chaos

I didn’t realize how many of his white hairs the filter I picked would hide!

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Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. You can catch up on everything on my Tumblr, if you’d like. 🙂

• Story lives.
• From a library flyer.
• My introduction page.
• Lin-Manuel Miranda.
• Quotes about home, part 2.
• “Pale Kings“.
• Still appalled.
• “Another brick in the wall“.
• Dare paints.
• Rainbow scribble doodle.
• Another #ThingsLeftOnMyTable collage.
• Bright filled.
• A portrait sort of based on my great-grandmother.

“Whoa, dude Mom, I am so stoned!” -Mayhem from a few years ago, with a (then) fresh Pollock ‘nip fish

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Don’t forget about Art Journaling Monday, which is a chance to see some of my creative output… yes, yes, and another cat picture! 😉

Bookity

• New releases: AAR (romance), Tor.com (genre-benders)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• “How Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings changed publishing forever“.
• Downside to handwriting a novel (also applies to writing one on a typewriter).
• On buying used books.
• “5 books about finding hope at the end of the world“.
• Granny Weatherwax mood board.
• Trying to describe that Discworld book you’re reading…
• Neil Gaiman when asked, “Lovecraft or Wodehouse?”

Do, Think, Make, Learn

• How crayons are made.
• Do you know what a kodkod is? Cute, for one thing.
• The Asian giant hornet and the Japanese honeybee.
• “It’s called the Coelacanth, and it’s your grandma.“

Cookity

• 8 gut friendly breakfasts.
• 12 no-mess packet dinners.
• 15 lunch salads.
• 23 healthy recipes for winter.
• 50+ recipes for soups and stews.

Gluten Free

• 8 brands of pretzels to try.

Artsy Crafty

• Ira Glass on the Creative Process.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Sunrise in Minnesota’s Superior National Forest.
• Perhaps Minneapolitans should start doing this…
• “What was David Bowie’s last song?“
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Whether you think this Minneapolis front yard is cool or wha… will depend on whether you’re from a warm or a cold climate.
• The worst art that just entered the public domain, according to critics.

Wha…?

• “Cook SPAM in your waffle maker“.
• That’s too many screens. Put some back.

LOL

• “Cakes that really capture the working experience“.

Reading Update
Project Collage: 50 Projects to Spark Your Creativity by Bev Spreight. Recommended if you’re looking to expand your collage repertoire – great ideas, examples, and explanations.

*derpity derpity derpity derp* -Chaos

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Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. You can catch up on everything on my Tumblr, if you’d like. 🙂

• “Travel as equals“.
• Abstracting myself, rainbow scribble doodle style. And again. And yet again!
• Rainbow space station.
• “Everything is magic ’til…“
• Rainbow mandala tree thing.
• Save the pies.
• “This is the story of the angel Who played poker with the devil In the Garden of Eden…“
• “How to be a person.” Two. Three. Four. Five – Seven. Eight and Nine. Ten.
• My completed “journal” for 365 Somethings 2019.
• My completed art journals for 2019.
• Rainbow scribble doodle wing thing.
• First page for 366 Somethings 2020.
• “Narcissism in presidents is a double-edged sword…“
• Funky doodle.
• For #ThingsLeftOnMyTable.

“I am So. Bored. And sleepy.” -Mayhem

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Bookity

• New releases: Tor.com (fantasy, scifi, YA SFF, “25 most anticipated” SFF books of 2020), Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Best Smart Bitches’ Cover Snark from 2019.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Lovely Twitter thread from Michael Sheen (Aziraphale) about the Good Omens fandom.
• Very, very detailed post about “The implosion of the RWA” (being updated as things continue to develop).
• Interesting post following Tolkien’s writing process as the One Ring changed from a minor item to a character.
• “The Tao of Sir Terry: Philosophy in Pratchett“.
• “Inventing folklore: The origins of the Green Man“.
• Neil Gaiman’s New Year’s post.
• Illustrated version of “What You Need to be Warm” by Neil Gaiman.

Do, Learn, Think, Make

• Some of NASA’s space images from 2019.
• The battle against reproductive rights and women’s body autonomy in the US continues to escalate.
• The horrifying tale of the Fischer-Price Rock’n’Play Sleeper.
• An addendum to the post about both 1980 and 2000 seeming as if they were 20 years ago for those of us of a certain age.
• The movies, music, and books that entered the public domain yesterday.
• “Neuroscientists have discovered a new kind of signal in the human brain“.
• 50 things to declutter.

Gluten Free

• Top 10 gf recipes of 2019 from Gluten-Free on a Shoestring.

Artsy Crafty

• 100 art journaling prompts.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Stunning wood and resin jewelry.
• Vanessa Stockard’s series of Kevin the Kitten.
• Black cats compared to black big cats.
• Linkity from kmkat.
• Linkity from bookwyrmknits.

Wha…?

• A neural net’s Christmas carol…

Reading Update
The Collage Ideas Book by Alannah Moore. Very good look at many different ways to do collage using examples from collage artists. This is definitely an inspiration book rather than a how-to.
Discovering Gluebooks: How to Stop Focusing on Products and Start Making More Art by Lisa Vollrath. Good overview, examples, and gluebook how-tos. (You make a gluebook by collaging things you already have, such as junk mail, magazines, glue sticks, etc. No special products or expertise required.)

“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos (he’s in the background, upper left)

*not quite awake* -Mayhem

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Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• “Romance writers stand behind author Courtney Milan in light of RWA ruling”. Smart Bitches on the situation.
• Some thoughts on “shock and disappointment over the actions or words of authors”.
• Susan Cooper, “The Shortest Day” – perfect for this time of year.
• 11 favorite book quotes from Nicole.
• Listen to the BBC special with Neil Gaiman, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, David Tennant, and Amanda Palmer. If you’re just interested in the Good Omens bits, they start at around 1:48:00 – including David Tennant reading Good Omens in his very own accent.
• A photo I took that reminded me of Good Omens.
• Great quote from Philip Pullman: “[I]t’s a metaphor. Don’t force it to do the work of a fact.”

Do, Think, Make, Learn

• The Mari Lwyd is a uniquely Welsh winter tradition.
• “tRUMP campaign admits to relying on voter suppression”.
• The pagan history of Christmas.

Cookity

• Stuffed pepper soup.
• 5-ingredient no-boil baked ziti.
• 10 one-bowl meals.
• Hot chocolate bread pudding.
• Brooklyn blackout cake (chocolate). (via The Kitchn)

Cool

• “22 nerdy things that brought us joy in 2019”.
• Holiday linkity from kmkat.
• Linkity linkity from kmkat.

Wha…?

• That’s is indeed a very odd traditional English carol.

LOL

• Of course it’s a black cat. OF COURSE.
• An Untitled Goose twist to those swan maiden fairy tales…
• Canadian Borg…
• A surprisingly humorous post about toast.
• And another surprisingly humorous post about what scientific jargon means in academic papers.
• Very American gothic.

Reading Update
Big Mushy Happy Lump (Sarah’s Scribbles #2) by Sarah Andersen. Possibly my favorite of her three books!

“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..” -Mayhem

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Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. You can catch up on everything on my Tumblr, if you’d like. 🙂

• “Oh, good lord.“
• “Let there be light.“
• This is where I live.
• The story of a linoleum block I carved in junior high school.
• Crowley and Aziraphale on the bus.
• Shadow tracing –> rainbow doodle hand.
• Dance like no one is watching.
• Tie up loose ends.
• NOT a rainbow mandala.
• Spirals.

*sniffing blanket loudly and suspiciously* -Chaos

“Keeping my eyes on YOU, Mom. So no funny business!” -Mayhem

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Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• “Best Jane Austen sentences“.
• Christmas shopping…
• 17 Calvin & Hobbes tattoos.

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• The saga of the last KMart in Minnesota. Of course, it’s the one blocking a major street in Minneapolis.
• Steampunk color palettes.
• Mozilla’s “Privacy Not Included” gift guide for 2019.
• “The decade fandom went corporate“.
• “Reddit’s favorite mindblowing facts of all time, fact-checked“.
• 30 viral fakes of the past decade.
• Best alternatives to Netflix (free).
• Yeah, we’re way beyond the usefulness of “if you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention”.

Cookity

• Donut loaf.
• Frosted snickerdoodle bars.
• No-bake cookies.

Gluten Free

• Candy cane biscotti.
• Chocolate meltaway cookies.
• Rice-milk rice pudding.
• Learn about 16 gf flours.

Cool

• Links to some very cute Good Omens comics.
• “Go to Sleep Baby Yoda“.

Wha…?

• “Just some Medieval paintings of cats licking their butts“.
• :facepalm:

LOL

• BOOM! And BOOM!
• Exactly what having a black cat (or two) is like.
• Santa cake wrecks.

Reading Update
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Very good epistolary ya novel about Charlie, a high school freshmen who shares his life and thoughts with an unidentified person via one-sided correspondence throughout Charlie’s first year of high school. Powerful.

*derpity derpity derpity* -Chaos

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Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. You can catch up on everything on my Tumblr, if you’d like. 🙂

• Mostly harmonious rainbow mandala.
• What if.
• Breathe.
• Ten-layer writeover journaling.
• Swedish. Sing out.
• Real wish.
• Not very harmonious rainbow scribble mandala with journaling.
• Joy.
• Another rainbow scribble doodle.
• Smells of the season.
• Constellation.
• Yes?
• Pinkout poem.
• And another rainbow scribble mandala.

“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos

*watchful, probably hoping for birds* -Mayhem

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This is going to be an unorganized whirlwind linkity because I volunteered at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts Thursday (today as I’m writing this) and am quite tired now.

• Boom! The hardest hitting Nativity scene.
• “‘Ridiculously hard’: How Neil Gaiman wrote a poem for refugees from 1000 tweets“.
• Gingerbread Overlook Hotel (The Shining).
• How to make flowers very creepy.
• Klimt’s The Kiss, cat version.
• Genius way to keep a cat off the Christmas tree.
• Some comics about Death.
• Knit a stocking hat with kitties on it.
• Mobius Ship (Tim Hawkinson, 2011).
• Stained glass gluten-free sugar cookies.
• Gluten-free iced oatmeal cookies.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• The nonbinary pronoun “they” is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year”.
• Mysterious cake wrecks.
• “23 emotions people feel but can’t explain”.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Linkity from kmkat.
• 7 easy, healthy one-bowl meals.
• “Staying safe using ride-hailing services”.
• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance)

Reading Update
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle. For me, this didn’t age well. And Meg drove me absolutely crazy. D’oh.

“What are you DOING, big kitty!?!! OMG.” -Mayhem

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