Contest(s)

• Blodeuedd’s giving away a copy of The Untouchable Earl by Amy Sandas. Comment by July 22 to enter. US only.

Bookity

• New releases: AAR (romance) and Tor.com (genre-benders, fantasy, scifi)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more.
• Linkity from Inkophile. And more.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• No-effort character sheet for writers.
• Why we read romance.
• NYC Subway Library.

Think, Learn, Make, Do

• The ISS is in Google Street View.
• “A third of dementia cases may be preventable“.
• Interactive periodic table.
• “tRUMP’s behavior is more than just a symptom of bad politics“.
• How hummingbirds fly.
• What racial profiling?
• “What was 2017 like?” (Really needs to include the whole Hobby Lobby smuggling thing, too.)
• Date format by country. (Definitely embiggen to see the comment on Canada.)
• That is a very good question.
• Best plants if you have depression or executive dysfunction.
• In which people from around the world recoil in horror at the state of the US primary passenger rail system.

Cookity

• Grilled zucchini salad.
• Chicken summer rolls with peanut dipping sauce.
• 26 summer slow cooker recipes.
• 25 recipes using peaches.
• 10 recipes for grain bowls.
• Chocolate zucchini breakfast cookies.

Gluten Free

• Calabacitas with summer corn, zucchini, green chiles, and lime.
• Shredded chicken taquitos.
• Chickpea flatbread.
• No-bake brownies.

Artsy Crafty

• Cat alphabet!
• Knitting linkity from knittyBlog. And more.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat. And more.

Cool

• “President Obama’s ‘Anger Translator’ returns to cathartically mock GOP tRUMP[Don’t]Care failure with Stephen Colbert“.
• A couple of lovely photos of a foggy Minneapolis morning.
• Day and night, Minneapolis.
• The Mugshot Monday project.
• Rainbow castle!
• Tiny watercolor paintings.
• Online purr generator. (via emmaseasall)
• Signs, signs, everywhere a sign.
• Ok, yeah, I think my 2017 Stanley Cup Champions art journal spread turned out really well. 🙂
• Linkity from kmkat. And more.

Wha…?

• KFC-branded smartphone.
• “I can’t believe we have to tell you not to snort chocolate“.
• “10 games that simulate boring jobs“.
• …I have questions.
• I would be Rather Startled to come home and find a mule deer in my kitchen.
• Twitter has definitely changed over the past eight years.
• I can’t believe they picked Kiester over Climax, Minnesota. I guess they used Climax, North Carolina, and didn’t want to duplicate?

LOL

• It me!
• Summer in the office…
• The Basilica and the… rubber duck.
• When you know the wildfires are really, really bad.
• Wifi vs cellular. (Hover cursor/long-press for caption.)
• Communicating… or not. (Hover cursor/long-press for caption.)
• Potentially NSFW Cake Wrecks. Same.
• Autocorrects about bugs. And vacation.
• Gollum reads tRUMP’s tweets.
• For shame, kitty!
• Oh, cats.

Teh Cute

• Pallas Cat and baby! Baby penguin! Baby red pandas! Baby puma! Pudu and baby! Wolf and babies! Cheetah and babies! Wee door!

Reading Update
Art Journal Kickstarter: Pages and Prompts to Energize Your Art Journals by Kristy Conlin. As long as you don’t expect any prompts (beyond, perhaps, some of the quotes scattered throughout), this is a very good look at the styles of over 100 mixed media art journalers. (Journalists?) Sometimes these types of survey books don’t really work for me, but this one did.

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“You better not be taking a picture and you DEFINITELY better not be planning to put the picture you’re not taking on the internet, Mom.” -Chaos

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• 2017 Stanley Cup Champions!
• Mint, rainbow-making machine.
• Play on words, lighthouse.
• Monochromatic, aurora borealis, superhero, paisley.
• Staircase, purple, fortune.
• Aquarium, Olympics, text as texture, stickers.
• Graffiti, hopscotch or tic-tac-toe, sorbet, path.

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*judging whilst lounging* -Mayhem

This week has felt a month long at work, I swear. Possibly because I ended up working around 17 hours on Wednesday. Anyway, I’m tired and cranky and post-migrainey (and apparently whiney) and linkity just isn’t going to happen tonight, folks… At least the outlook for next week is much, much better! 🙂

“Don’t make me use The Claw on you!” -Chaos

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• Caravan or RV, portrait.
• Landscape, aqua or pool, Trivial Pursuit, 100.
• Zodiac, magic, Statue of Liberty, crystal or prism.
• Sunflower, meditation, folk art.
• Lens, surfboard, latitude and longitude, yellow.
• Green, farm, dashboard, polka dots.
• Gyroscope,desert or dessert, faux wallpaper.

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“I love you, ‘nip fish!!!” -Mayhem

Once again, on-call stuff ate into my linkity making time. So! Here’s what I got.

• “The Shapes of Stories” by Kurt Vonnegut.
• What if famous writers wrote fic on AO3? Start here. Then read the replies, with many more authors.
• Lovely shot of the Lowry Avenue Bridge (Minneapolis).
• Bald eagle flying through a rainbow.
• Last week, Minneapolis passed the $15/hour minimum wage. My US Representative was pretty happy about it. 🙂
• Who’s a smart corvid? Is it you?
• Go, STEM girls!
• “I believe that it is difficult to kill an idea because ideas are invisible and contagious, and they move fast.“
• A novel-writing masterlist.
• That was… not what I expected from the cover.
• Recipes around the world.
• Help pick a name for Crayola’s new shade of blue crayon.
• Roasted cauliflower salad with chickpeas, feta, and herbs.
• Chicken and veggie pesto salad.
• 20 dinner recipes using zucchini.
• 50 cheerfully colored summer recipes.
• 10 no-cook meals.
• Pop Rocks s’mores. (via The Kitchn)
• Gluten-free peach crisp.
• Gluten-free quinoa salad with pineapple, broccoli, and mint.
• Why do we sing do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do anyway?!
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Pedal-powered elevator.
• Cake Wrecks on the 4th of July.
• That is a lot to ask of your coffee.
• A picture I took of one of the new sculptures in the Walker Sculpture Garden over the weekend.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat. And linkity linkity from kmkat.
• Awkward Buzz Lightyear moment with tRUMP.
• Covers of songs about social justice.
• xkcd on the emoji movie. (Hover cursor/long-press for caption.)
• “tRUMP supporters cry bias after NPR tweets the Declaration of Independence.“

Reading Update
Freehand: Sketching Tips and Tricks Drawn from Art by Helen Birch. Good overview of a wide array of artistic tidbits, such as “Suggesting Time”, “Negative Space”, “Damp Ground”, “Aerial Gaze”, “Complementary Colors”, etc. Feels more scattershot than I was expecting for some reason.

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“I’m hiding! You can’t see me, Mom! So stop pretending you can.” -Mayhem