Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂 (Meanwhile, I’m crabbily trying to get a new phone up and running. Let’s just say that the “Phone Clone” app didn’t do as much cloning as one might’ve hoped… ACK.)

• Truce art mud.
• The Winter Land of Ice and Snow.
• Superheroes fast dose real.
• Special gaming jaded Sisyphus.
• Seasons.
• Polarized glamour embrace.
• Typewriters.
• Space.

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“This is me doing a resting lion statue pose!!!” -Mayhem

Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Another potential after-the-books future for Harry Potter.
• “Snow Crash showed me the power of physical books“.
• “40+ empowering feminist quotes“.
• Some quotes from A Wrinkle in Time.
• Quote from The Handmaid’s Tale.
• Shakespearian soap.

Think, Learn, Do, Make

• Abigail Disney (yes, THAT Disney) is a One Percenter who has a lot of thoughts about the tax cuts for the wealthy that she neither needed or wanted.
• “Sears’s ‘radical’ past: How mail order catalogues subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow“. (via neighborhoodr-minneapolis)
• “Why do liberals think tRUMP supporters are stupid?“
• Remember that no one gave women suffrage – those kickass historical women took it.
• A critique of makeup culture.
• “How to not get fooled by IKEA’s mind games“.
• “Robocalls and scams are now one-third of all calls“.
• “How would you have died on the Oregon Trail?“
• “Stop shaming consumers for the sins of corporations and their powerful investors“.
• “How to shut down bad-faith ‘debates’ on social media“.
• “The cultural significance of Chris Pine’s penis in Outlaw King“.

Cookity

• 10 easy breakfast recipes.
• Spaghetti squash.
• 5-ingredient chili.
• Slow-cooker beef and broccoli.
• Cardamom strawberry crisp.

Gluten Free

• Chocolate caramel shortbread.

Artsy Crafty

• Linkity from knittyBlog.

Cool

• Fall in Minneapolis. Very pretty.
• We had a little snow over the weekend…
• I would definitely take a picture of that sidewalk inscription, too.
• “…our farm diaries, which are a lot like normal diaries but with more cows.“
• My 1950 Princess typewriter, made in West Germany.
• “10 dreamy coffee shops around the world“.

Cool or Wha…?

• The guy who can turn anything and everything into a knife.

Wha…?

• A tenrec, apparently. It looks like a bird-mammal hybrid!
• “Candles that light themselves at the push of a button“.

LOL

• Cats through history.
• How cats domesticated themselves.
• Life with cats.
• Bad dog!
• More Pixie and Brutus.

Teh Cute

• Baby red panda! Lioness and babies!

Reading Update
Dragon Justice (Paranormal Scene Investigations #4) by Laura Anne Gilman. Good continuation of this series about a paranormal investigation agency. If you read it, brace yourself. Not everyone on the team makes it to the end.
Volatile Bonds (Prospero’s War #4) by Jaye Wells. Another good addition to this series about a police detective attached to a Federal unit focusing on crime in the city’s supernatural community.
Staying Dead and Curse the Dark (Retrievers 1-2) by Laura Anne Gilman. Good sort of detectivey series about Wren, whose magic leaves her unnoticed by most people, and her partner Sergei, who isn’t magical at all.

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“FeedmeFeedmeFeedmeFeedmeFeedmeFeedme!” -Chaos

Have I mentioned before how glad I am that he never grew into his ears (or paws)?!

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• Sebastian Joe’s again.
• Scribbly lines.
• Scribbly lines with paint.
• Eavesdropping.
• Paint with doodling.
• Rainy days.
• Caution.

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*haz an annoyed* -Mayhem

Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• “How feminist bookstores changed history” (via Book Riot)
• A hopeful take on whatever happened to Susan Pevensie.
• Succinct writing advice from Neil Gaiman.
• Cat bookmarks.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.

Think, Learn, Do, Make

• Boom! There it is.
• I ask myself this a lot.
• “Golf Digest helps free man from prison“.
• Consumer Reports on the Facebook data breach.
• European scientists are studying how being online affects mental health.

Cookity

• 10 recipes for sweet potatoes.
• 10 healthy one-pot meals.
• Easy no-bake chewy granola bars.
• 15 cozy fall beverages.
• Pumpkin spice pie fries.
• Ginger pumpkin pie with graham cracker crust.
• Chocolate Rice Krispie treats.
• 10 fast chocolate desserts.

Artsy Crafty

• “21 fall book crafts for Halloween“.
• Linkity from knittyBlog.

Cool

• Getting a Lady of the Lake vibe here.
• Northern Lights in northern Minnesota.
• In which ofgeography has a very weird morning.
• A little Mr Rogers’ “Garden of the Mind”…
• Award-winning nature photographs.
• kmkat is going to be on Jeopardy! A little more about that.

Cool or Wha…?

• Halloween candy with glow-in-the-dark wrappers.
• “Most Stuff” Oreos.

Wha…?

• Mac’n’cheese candy canes. (Thanks, Emma!)
• Pumpkin spice cheese.
• “Minnesota residents call police on rowdy drunk birds“.
• All very good questions about this abandoned button factory.
• “For when you want to look literally eviscerated….but like….with sexy viscera.” Halloween costume FAIL.

LOL

• …and Bill Murray would know weird.
• Zoom Zoom!
• Agree with the original poster’s assessment.
• The adventures of Pixie and Brutus.

Teh Cute

• Baby tigers!

Reading Update
You Had Better Make Some Noise: Words to Change the World by Phaidon Editors. A very good book of quotes tailored to these times we’re living in.
Bookmarked for Death (Booktown Mystery #2) by Lorna Barrett. I only made it about five pages before deciding I didn’t care at all and set it aside.
Crispin’s Model by Max Gladstone. Good creepy Lovecraftian short from the POV of an artist’s model sitting for an artist who pays very well but is decidedly odd…
The Dragon Conspiracy (SPI Files #2) by Lisa Shearin. Pretty good paranormal series about a Southern seer who works as an agent for Supernatural Protection and Investigation in New York City. Her boss is a vampire and his boss is a dragon…
Dead to Rites (Mick Oberon #3) by Ari Marmell. Good mystery/urban fantasy series set in 1930s Chicago about private investigator (and member of the Fae) Mick Oberon. He tries to avoid mob-related jobs, but…
Tricks of the Trade (Paranormal Scene Investigations #3) by Laura Anne Gilman. Good paranormal suspense (with a hint of romance) about an agency of New York City private investigators who are trying to prove to the Council governing the supernatural world that having unaffiliated investigators is a good thing.
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic #1) by VE Schwab. Good tale of three Londons (White, Red, Grey) with varying degrees of magic, the man who can walk between them, a thief, and nefarious plots.

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“Why aren’t you petting me, Mom????” -Mayhem

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• Curious satisfied bajillion.
• Abstract urban sketching.
• “Chomsky is my home boy“.
• More from the abstract urban sketching class.
• Line study #1.
• Another line study.
• The view from Sebastian Joe’s.

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“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem

“What IS the meaning of life?!” -Chaos