Art Journaling Monday!
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂
- Sebastian Joe’s again.
- Scribbly lines.
- Scribbly lines with paint.
- Eavesdropping.
- Paint with doodling.
- Rainy days.
- Caution.
*haz an annoyed* -Mayhem
Linkity last saw the sun the morning of October 4
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
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…?
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
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.
“Why aren’t you petting me, Mom????” -Mayhem
Art Journaling Monday!
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.
“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem
“What IS the meaning of life?!” -Chaos
Linky apparently needed a lot of humor and cool things to get thru the past few weeks
Bookity
- New releases: Book Riot (audiobooks, YA), Tor.com (YA SFF, genre-benders, SF, fantasy), Smart Bitches (romance)
- Book “recommendations for comfort and solace” from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more!
- Linkity from Inkophile.
- Roald Dahl quotes.
- “Stephen Colbert made a children’s book out of tRUMP’s post-Hurrican Florence comments“.
- A portable, distraction-free writing device…
- Llama bookmarks and more.
- What are books?
- Cute bookstore in Duluth, MN.
- The story of a background Gryffindor.
- A humorous bit in which James Potter pretends to be the amateur magician that his brother-in-law Vernon Dursley told people he was.
- Harry hatches a basilisk.
Think, Learn, Do, Make
- “…“
- “Conspiracy theories around the ‘Presidential Alert’“.
- “How to delete your Facebook account: A checklist“.
- NASA: 60 Years in 60 Seconds.
- “ALL.”
- Sometimes you just need a little Mr Rogers.
Cookity
- Slow cooker coconut lentil curry.
- Slow cooker taco-stuffed potatoes.
- 10 easy apple recipes.
- 18 fall cakes.
- Soft pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting.
- Cinnamon chocolate pecan pie cookies.
Gluten Free
Artsy Crafty
Cool
- On growth.
- To remember.
- Black kitty fabric!
- Minnesota in apples.
- Tettegouche State Park.
- “A Cartoonist’s Advice” from Bill Watterson.
- “Full-Body Education” comic.
- “A necromancer falls in love with a healer…“
- Poltergeists help a single mom raise her young son…
- What if Clark Kent’s coworkers at the Daily Planet thought he was an illegal immigrant from somewhere else on earth?
- Be kind.
Cool or Wha…?
Wha…?
LOL
- Camera as toy for lion cubs.
- Cute cat costume cartoon.
- So many questions!
- Groaner of a space joke.
- “Foxes are cat software being run on dog hardware“.
- Biomagnification.
- Life hacks from a while ago…
- The strange fusion of Magic 8-Ball and DnD.
- “The sole reason I still have a Twitter is to watch Chris Evans drag Donald tRUMP.”
- Underrated tweets.
- xkcd on incoming calls. (Hover cursor/long-press to read the caption.)
Teh Cute
Reading Update for the Past Two Weeks
Free Agent, 
Soul Ink, 
Armageddon Rules, and 
Wish Bound (Grimm Agency #1, #1.5, #2, #3) by JC Nelson. Ok paranormal/fairy tale series about a woman whose parents sold her into indentured servitude working for the Grimm Agency. (I know, that’s amazingly unhelpful even by my reviewette standards, but pretty much anything else I can say would be a spoiler.) On the plus side, this is a completed series! It won’t drag on forever! 😀
No Hero and 
Yesterday’s Hero, and 
Anti-Hero (Arthur Wallace 1-3) by Jonathan Wood. Pretty good series about a cop who ends up in a secret British government agency (dealing with the paranormal) after he sees too much at a crime scene. Maybe it’s the nature of books that use Lovecraft’s concepts and characters, but this reminded me an awful lot of the Laundry Files by Charles Stross. And no one’s injuries really seem to linger past the time when they’re incurred.
Bookburners: The Complete First Season by Max Gladstone et al. 3.5 stars. Good paranormal suspense about a secret organization funded by the Vatican who travel the world confiscating dangerous magical texts. This was originally released serially – I would’ve hated to read it that way. I also think the serial thing contributed to this book’s heft (800 pages) – it could definitely stand to be trimmed down a bit.
Hot Lead, Cold Iron and 
Hallow Point (Mick Oberon 1-2) 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…
Let Some Word That Is Heard Be Yours by Alex Nall. Very good comic story about a teacher having a rough time who turns to Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood for calm and wisdom.
Mid-Century Portable Typewriters: Spotter’s Guide by Nick Bodemer. The book only has 13 typewriters in it. While there are many blank pages included for notes, fewer blank pages and more content/more typewriters would make this a much more useful reference.
“….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos (on the left – you can see his greying whiskers over his body) & Mayhem (under the blanket)
Art Journaling Monday!
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday!
- Season(s) of Depression.
- Patterns.
- “Blackout” poetry.
- Type, circle, prophecy.
- Season of Words.
- Care less, 70s glow, happy?, stress brake.
- Back to school.
“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem
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