Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• More disconnected.
• Television.
• Coping mechanisms.
• Improvisation happiness.
• Disconnected again.
• Free to be(e).
• Disconnection notice.
• That space.
• Typewriter plan.
• Be kind.
• Mood marking.
• Saturated good.

---

“Mondays, amirite?” -Mayhem

Bookity

• New releases: AAR (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• “What writing about reading does to your reading“.
• A great poem on the dangers of pockets in women’s clothing.
• The Museum of English Rural Life is back and batty!
• On the original (1740) version of Beauty and the Beast.

Think, Make, Do, Learn

• NASA with some info on flooding along the Mississippi River.
• “Why do people believe in pseudoscience?“

Cookity

• Slow cooker buffalo chicken soup.
• Spicy Thai noodle soup.
• No lemon poppyseed muffins.
• Espresso cupcakes with Bailey’s buttercream frosting.
• Chocolate pot de creme.
• Fudge bottom pie.
• Wilde Oscar (alcoholic beverage).

Gluten Free

• Extra crispy waffles.
• Chocolate chip shortbread cookies.

Artsy Crafty

• “Physicists are decoding math-y secrets of knitting to make bespoke materials“.
• Linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• “Bill Nye turned up at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s talk at SXSW and dug into climate change“.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• “Carmen Sandiego is hiding in Google Earth“.
• You can now add “active heating and cooling” to your mattress.

Wha…?

• Minnesota high school hockey hair.
• “Scientists: Maybe if we only dim the sun a little, it won’t backfire horribly“.

LOL

• Human rituals reinterpreted through alien eyes.
• When your online grocery order goes a little awry…
• “Always read the plaque.“
• Where the forecast left us at the end of last week, pretty much.
• “Canadian wolves are being airdropped into Michigan to kill moose“.
• Cake Wrecks does Ken. (Possibly NSFW?!)
• Size Venn diagram from xkcd. (Hover cursor/long-press for caption.)

Teh Cute

• The fiercest kitten evah! Baby clouded leopards! Penguin and baby!

Reading Update
Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger. Bartenders keeping humanity safe from horrors from another dimension! This was pretty silly, yet for some reason I read the whole thing.
Shattered Soul, Broken Paths, Stolen Sight, and Fenrisulfr (AIR 1-3, 3.5) by Amanda Booloodian. Ok series about a psychic who works for a secret government agency keeping creatures of myth and legend out of the public eye.
Hammers on Bone and A Song for Quiet (Persons Non Grata 1-2) by Cassandra Khaw. John Persons is a private investigator… or is he? Lovecraftian, and I have no idea what actually happened. Or do I?
A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith (Tiffany Aching 2-3) by Sir Terry Pratchett. Excellent young adult fantasy series continuing the adventures of one Tiffany Aching, witch.

---

“Still no birds!!!! Hmph.” -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• Bacteria Scrabble.
• “It takes a village”.
• A little Camus.
• Remember…
• My Season of Ubuntu journal.
• Whoops world.
• Peace and freedom.

---

“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos & Mayhem

Bookity

• New releases: Tor.com (scifi, fantasy, young adult sff, genre benders) and Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. Cover snark from Smart Bitches. “Adventures in Big Stock” from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• 12 of the best Harry Potter escape rooms worldwide. I’ve been to the one in St Paul!
• Netflix is adapting One Hundred Years of Solitude…
• Book journaling.
• Tidying up notebooks.
• How did you celebrate World Book Day yesterday?
• “The last days of Hemingway at the Mayo Clinic“.

Do, Make, Learn, Think

• Ok, this a good take on Marie Kondo.
• Art history and colonialism.
• “Facebook decides anti-vax conspiracies aren’t part of the business model anymore“.
• “Son of anti-vaxxer speaks about immunization to Congress”.
• “Anti-Muslim attacks on Rep Ilhan Omar aren’t fringe happenings”.
• The return of the medieval box bed.
• How Canada talks.
• Wet winters aren’t sufficient wildfire protection for California anymore.
• The last Blockbuster.
• “The typewriter lady who took on Australian’s immigration cruelty – and won”.

Cookity

• Slow cooker chicken posole.
• Slow cooker vegetarian black bean soup.
• Black bean and sweet potato tacos.

Gluten Free

• Three-ingredient Nutella brownies.
• White cake.

Artsy Crafty

• Linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• What if you were an alien who had to audit Earthling ships’ spending allowances?
• If the Ocean’s 8 sequel was about trying to steal the shawls from Stevie Nicks’ shawl vault…
• Astronaut mitts.
• Temperature map cross stitch.
• A drone video of a wintery Minneapolis (plus a song).
• Dramatically lit downtown Minneapolis.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• A very strange bullet point story.

Wha…?

• :facepalm:
• “Berry Purrr-fection“.
• “US Army assures public that robot tank system adheres to AI murder policy”.

LOL

• Amusing conversation between fan and artist.
• “When you feed your cats an hour late” – too true!
• Lord Nibbles.
• Video orientation. (Hover cursor/long press for caption.)
• “It’s snowing again…“
• “I didn’t think the situation was this dire.“
• IKEA’s chocolate Easter bunny requires some assembly.

Reading Update
Nightshades, Switchback, and Outbreak (Nightshades 1-3) by Melissa F Olson. Good trilogy about a Chicago-based FBI agent whose division is charged with investigating vampires on a kidnapping and killing spree. He’s aided by an ancient vampire who’s helping partially by her own choice, partially by duress. A couple of the books had one of my least favorite literary devices, the unnecessary cliffhanger “epilogue”.
All Hallows Horror (The Lovecraft Squad #1) by John Llewellyn Probert. DNF. I made it about halfway through this book and decided I just didn’t care whether the remaining characters lived or died.
Black Helicopters by Caitlin R Kiernan. Made it about a third of a way through this futuristic novella and remained both confused and uncaring, so I stopped reading.
Clean, Payoff, and Sharp (Mindspace Investigations 1, 1.5, 2) by Alex Hughes. Pretty good series about a high-powered telepath and recovering addict who works for the police and is more or less trying to stay clean.
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. Good young adult mystery about the quirky residents of a small apartment building who are suddenly thrust into a puzzle game to see which of them will receive a sizable inheritance.

---

*thlurp* -Chaos, cleaning Mayhem’s ears

*purring* -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday!

• Different operating system.
• “You can only be the Revolution.“
• Indeed.
• Time to stop hiding.
• “…by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.“
• You are karma.
• It will be televised…and tweeted… and…
• Clockwork Capitalist Colonialism.
• Disconnected cover (which looked better in real life, honestly).
• Disconnect/ed.

---

“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos