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.

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

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Bookity

• Cover snark.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Tips for pretending you’ve read a book.
• Map monsters.
• Harry Potter quotes. (via stars-benn)
• Some fandom meta.
• Fairy tale reading bedroom.

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• “The Dumbo octopus is eight cute legs of stone cold murder“.
• McMansion Hell and fair use.
• “Volvo’s driverless cars can’t figure out kangaroos“.
• John Oliver on science and vaccines.
• “When men are too emotional to have a rational argument“. (via emmaseasall)
• “Why is there a Kmart in Minneapolis that blocks an entire street?” I ask myself this every time I’m unable to drive up Nicollet Avenue from Lake Street.
• “6 things the US government is doing that supervillains have also done“.
• New photos of the Mount St Helens eruption.

Cookity

• Chicken and quinoa salad.
• 20 easy dinners.
• Grilled s’mores quesadillas.
• Dunkaroos.
• Easy rainbow icebox cake.

GF

• Strawberry spinach salad with berry dressing.
• Peanut butter brownies.
• Flourless chocolate mug cake.

Artsy Crafty

• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Take a tour of the House on the Rock.
• Space cat.
• Lamps where you do not expect lamps to be.
• Meet my FunkoPop!Sidney Crosby…
• And an addition to my neighborhood.
• Music video for “Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)”.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Wha…?

• “UPS deliveries by golf cart now legal in Kentucky“… alrighty then.
• “Strapping dressers, bookshelves, lamps, cleaning supplies, a tv, and a bike to your minivan will probably get you pulled over“.
• Orangina, what. (Possibly NSFW. It’s hard to tell, really.)

LOL

• Dinosaur roleplaying.
• Comparing seasons between the northern and southern US. (I think the northern summer should have a weird bulgey arm to highlight the summer extremes.)
• Autocorrect goes camping.
• NSFW Cake Wrecks and superheroes.
• Definitely not a street.
• Telephoto, xkcd style. (Hover cursor/long-press for caption.)
• Math class. (Hover cursor/long-press for caption.)
• Refresh types. (Hover cursor/long-press for caption.)
• Whoops.
• Darth Chat Noir, I presume?

Teh Cute

• Baby sea otter! Andean bear and baby! Southern pudu and baby! Baby Mexican grey wolves!

Reading Update
Sid vs Ovi: Natural Born Rivals by Andrew Podnieks. So-so comparison of Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin from their rookie seasons in 2005-2006 through June 2011, focusing on their games against each other. The book was definitely biased toward Crosby and painted a pretty unflattering picture of Ovechkin. I mean, I prefer Sid to Ovi myself, but… Pretty sure I told the book, “You aren’t even trying” more than once.

*kick-hug-kick-hug-kick-rub on face-kick* -Mayhem

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Getting paged for work really ate up my evening and my linkity making time, so I’m cranky and going to see how much linkity I can manage in 15-30 minutes. Ready. Set. Go.

• Teaching kids how to spot fake news.
• Girl Scouts are going to be able to earn cybersecurity badges.
• Reality differences.
• A look at some of the new foods that will be at this year’s Minnesota State Fair.
• Amazing stories about “changelings”. (via gilajames)
• The sorcerer and the dragon.
• The red strings of fate trope taken in a great direction.
• Where is the lie?
• Learn more about the flapjack octopus.
• “How cats conquered humans thousands of years ago“.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “Reading trumps ignorance” t-shirt.
• What the tRUMP Presidential Library might look like…
• “You need food and water in order to live“. :flabbergasted:
• xkcd on doing things the news tells you to do. (Hover cursor/long press for caption.)
• 19 patterns for crocheted bookmarks.
• 8 Wonder Woman-inspired knitting and crochet projects.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat. And non-knitting linkity from kmkat.
• There are 15 new “Ken” dolls coming out. “Twitter is having a hard time accepting the new man-bun-sporting Ken doll“.
• GF banana blueberry muffin cake.
• GF snickerdoodles.
• 10 simple vegetarian suppers.
• Upside-down strawberry skillet cake.
• “What if the earth suddenly turned flat?“
• Canada lynx and babies! Bat-eared fox and babies! Cheetah and babies!

Reading Update

• Look! Up in the sky!

“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos

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Contest(s)

• Blodeuedd’s giving away a copy of Wolf Unleashed by Paige Tyler. (Read the details on what your comment needs to contain to enter.) Closes June 18. US only.

Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• The maps behind the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books.
• “This is what a librarian looks like“.
• Seanan McGuire being awesome. (This is completely for Nicole.)
• Library card phone case. (via Book Riot)

Think, Learn, Do, Make

• “How tall would the Stanley Cup be if the NHL never removed anyone’s name?“
• Don’t anger the ravens, people. (Or crows.)
• Neil deGrasse Tyson has won the Stephen Hawking Medal.
• Scientists weighed a star.
• Another perspective on the EWG’s yearly good/bad sunscreen lists.
• A very good point by xkcd. (Definitely hover/long-press for the caption on this one.)
• “How to find free and safe public wi-fi“.

Cookity

• No-chop cold veggie noodle bowls with soy lime vinaigrette.
• Make-ahead chicken and veggie chopped salad.
• Summer breakfast salad.
• Broken lasagna.
• Smoky portobello cheese “burgers”.
• 20 simple summer salads.
• 20 dinners that won’t heat up the kitchen.
• 10 strawberry-rhubarb recipes.
• Fudgy condensed milk cookies.
• Secret ingredient (spoiler: cauliflower) frozen hot chocolate. (via The Kitchn)

Gluten Free

• Vanilla cupcakes.

Artsy Crafty

• Crochet some water balloons. (Thanks, PD!)
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• The impact of the new Wonder Woman movie on kindergartners.
• Minneapolis City Hall.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Wha…?

• I have questions.

LOL

• The former President of Mexico has a message for tRUMP.
• Minnesota: “We have the biggest puddle”.
• “Because fuck glaciers!” (Hover/long-press for caption.)
• The secret behind state maps. (Hover/long-press for caption.)
• Rather NSFW Cake Wrecks.
• Autocorrects about horses.

Teh Cute

• Baby tiger! Baby clouded leopards!

Reading Update
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be the Artist You Truly Are by Danny Gregory. While I didn’t always agree with the author, it was a good, thought-provoking book on using drawing to bring more creativity to all aspects of your life. It definitely got me thinking and writing about some deeper things.
Creative Pilgrimage: An Exploration of Artful Gatherings and Discovery of Innovative Art Techniques by Jenny Doh. Ok but very repetitive overview of various instructors from mixed media art retreats. Not something I’ll bother rereading or referring to again.

I recently bought a magnet for my refrigerator and it perfectly sums up how Chaos greets visitors…

“I am Chaos and I approve of this message!!!” -Chaos

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Contest(s)

• Blodeuedd’s giving away a copy of A Match Made in Texas by Margaret Brownley. Closes June 10. US only.

Bookity

• New releases: Tor.com (scifi, fantasy. genre-benders) and Smart Bitches (romance)
• Wonder Woman linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Pros and cons of paper books and ebooks.
• “Why writing takes forever“.
• Uhhhh… (NSFW-ish, but will amuse fantasy readers)

Think, Learn, Do, Make

• How to feel old: remembering Y2K.
• Understanding Fahrenheit temperatures.
• Geeks are as hypermasculine as jocks.
• Hillary Clinton’s “surreal post-election life”.
• “‘Why shouldn’t I be able to speak my truth?’“
• Thank you, Senator Franken.
• Who thought a sculpture of a scaffold that children could play on was a good idea in the first place?!
• The sixth sense is actually not the ability to see ghosts.

Cookity

• Broccoli and cauliflower “coleslaw”.
• Spicy salmon black bean salad.
• Layered cobb salad.
• Chopped bbq chicken salad.
• 25 delicious lettuce-free salads.
• 20 no-cook lunches.
• Summer squash risotto.
• Brimstone bread.
• Orange and strawberry muffins.
• Vanilla purple cake with lemon buttercream. (via maderr)
• One-bowl vanilla cake with yogurt buttercream.
• One-bowl strawberry shortcakes.
• S’mores blondies.
• Chocolate peanut butter cookie cake.

Gluten Free

• Popcorn chicken.
• Tex-Mex quinoa salad.
• Chickpea and buckwheat crackers with turmeric and fennel.
• White chocolate mousse.
• Dark chocolate brownies.

Artsy Crafty

• Knit or crochet a temperature blanket. (Thanks, Em!)
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• I can walk to this lake from my condo.
• Minnesota is pretty awesome.
• Fiery-throated hummingbird.
• Dramatic art.
• Piebald moose.
• Short film about the moon landing.
• Linkity from kmkat. More linkity from kmkat.

Wha…?

• Cookie-crusted chicken.
• “Burger King drops its claim to the Belgian throne“.

LOL

• Conjured demon having a bad day.
• Minnesotans.
• Best kitten hiding place.
• Oh, cats.
• That is a good nickname.

Teh Cute

• Penguins and babies! Baby pandas! Darwin’s rhea and babies!

Reading Update
The Best of Down Goes Brown: Greatest Hits and Brand New Classics-to-Be from Hockey’s Most Hilarious Blog by Sean McIndoe. Good collection of humorous hockey writing – unfortunately, it really doesn’t stand the test of time (six years) that well.
The Jargoon Pard by Andre Norton. I loved this book as a preteen and it stood up pretty well to the reread. I did get annoyed with the sort of formal, tangly language at times – obviously preteen me was a more forgiving reader. 🙂 (Confession: I was too lazy to go dig this out of my under-bed storage, so I just checked the ebook out of the library from the comfort of my purple chaise instead…)

*thlurrrrp* -Chaos

*purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr* -Mayhem

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