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Linkity, advanced Mayhem mode

December 4, 2020 Chris 4 Comments

“If I hold very still, I’m sure Mom won’t notice me in this box!” -Mayhem

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Linkity wonders if frazzled is my new pandemic state of mind

November 20, 2020 Chris 3 Comments

New releases: Tor.com (horror/genre-benders), Smart Bitches (romance)
Linkity from Smart Bitches.
Linkity from the Pen Addict.
New example of the importance of the Oxford comma.
“Magical Mind: The World of Terry Pratchett” (nearly an hour! be prepared before you start!).
A good point to remember, writers! 😉
Not cool, Disney.
“I’m Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense”.
Turkeys, swans, kayaks, and more.
Some cursed facts about bluefin tuna.
On birds and teeth.
Another way to keep glasses from fogging up when wearing a mask.
50+ vegetarian recipes.
Cheesy chickpea bowls.
Great response to someone not wearing a mask… from 1919.
Perfect mask is perfect. And I’ve ordered one for myself! (They’re only on sale until Monday, November 23.)
UGH, SERIOUSLY.
UNSURPRISING.
ALSO unsurprising.
Be stunned, amazed, horrified by this house in Fort Worth, Texas.
Car with “a sunken rec room in back”.
Roman Colosseum LEGO set.
A character in a comic has an existential crisis.
Baby Yoda in space!
BOOM.
Oh, the revenge would be sweet.
Very sweet xkcd. Hover cursor/long-press for caption.
The tale of the cat prince…
Melted clocks, melted cats.

Reading Update
The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor. I definitely need to reread this and journal about the prompts and questions.
The Time of the Dark (Darwath #1) by Barbara Hambly. I enjoyed it as I read it, but I’m not sure I’ll read the rest of the series.

Lights on, nobody home in Chaos land.

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Linkity still has whiplash from the weather change this week (72F one day, 30F and snowing the next)

November 13, 2020 Chris 5 Comments

New releases: Tor (sf, fantasy, YA sff)
Linkity from Smart Bitches.
Linkity from the Pen Addict.
“Science confirms: Watching nostalgic stuff is good for mental health“.
“Things I learned about USA from staring at maps for 2 days bc of USA elections“. (That weird bump on the top of Minnesota that bothered the op so much is the Northwest Angle.)
Yes, this is exactly what driving in snow is like.
What songs got popular after the election was called Saturday?
“Intersectionality and decentering: You can’t have one without the other!“
“Dear white people, I need to matter beyond a thank you“.
Gorgeous, but NO.
Cardamon creme brulee pie.
Overexcited kittens are overexcited.
xkcd on electoral precedent. Hover cursor/long-press for caption.
It IS shocking, isn’t it?
Speaking of shocking…
“Smart” heels.
Standing keyboard.

Reading Update
Whole lotta Good Omens fics – it was a stressful week!

“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem

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Linkity is no more caught up or less frazzled than last week

November 6, 2020 Chris 3 Comments

Reading Update
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed To Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown. It was good, but I kept getting tripped up by her insistence on faith being nonnegotiable. I adore her podcast, tho!

*side-eyeing* -Chaos

*drowsing* -Mayhem

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Falling back with linkity

October 30, 2020 Chris 4 Comments

New releases: AAR (romance)
Linkity from Smart Bitches. And cover snark from Smart Bitches.
Listen to a free horror story.
Murderbot animation.
Bookshelf nooks.
Oh, you should definitely read this lovely little short story.
I would love to read the novel-length version of this premise!
Halloween posters from NASA.
“What would you take to the moon?“
I guess 102 years doesn’t really change the pandemic experience, does it? NOT AT ALL.
“Healthcare isn’t an opinion.“
“Pandemic depression is about to collide with seasonal depression. Make a plan, experts say.“
Thank you. This is a good reminder.
I’m in.
Pheasant coucals are very cool looking birds.
“Researchers finally figured out how octopuses taste [things] with their arms”.
“Fluid dynamics in all its glory.“
What is asexuality?
COVID-19 fight scene.
LOL!
xkcd on falling back. Hover cursor/long-press for caption.
So true!
BUSTED. That’s, um, kinda what linkity is at this point. 😀
Untitled goose Halloween.
Over 50 one-pot meals.
Pumpkin oatmeal chocolate chip muffins.
80 easy desserts.
Disney, WHY? SO CREEPY.
Mark Hamill for Biden. The Avengers for Joe Biden.
45 commits v0ter fraud.
BOOM. And BOOM.

Reading Update
The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein. Be prepared to be horrified and enraged.
The Library of the Unwritten (Hell’s Library #1) by AJ Hackwith. Good enough to suck me in, even though I never shook the comparisons to another series or two.

Flashback photo of Mayhem from 2015!

*INTENSITY INTENSIFIES*

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Linkity’s hopeful next week will be less crazy

October 23, 2020 Chris 3 Comments

Keep your fingers crossed on that! 😀

Reading Update
1919 by Eve L Ewing. An exploration of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 (part of the “Red Summer” in the US) via haunting poetry.
Electric Arches by Eve L Ewing. Some more haunting poetry from Ewing.
Other Worlds Than These edited by John Joseph Adams. Pretty good collection of parallel world and portal stories that started out a lot stronger than it finished.

“Neener, neener, neener!” -Chaos

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And another round of whirlwind linkity!

October 16, 2020 Chris 3 Comments

New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Tor.com (horror/genre-benders)

Linkity from Smart Bitches. And from the Pen Addict.

“Notes from Isolation: A Soundtrack for Now“.

Scientists, 90s and today.

Bwa-ha-ha!

“…simultaneously adorable and dystopian.”

A wonderful last contact story.

Variations of Fawkes the Phoenix.

Neanderthals were plying.

Lord of the Rings game, but you play as the ring (not a real game, alas).

“2020 summed up in book titles”.

Well, it’s the reason I have black cats, so!

“Theory: Nobody who writes a physics textbook gives any fucks”.

Whoopsy.

WHOOPSY.

Pumpkin tres leches cake.

The xkcd dialect quiz. Hover cursor/long-press for caption.

And xkcd’s ultimate all-in-one printer. Again with the hovering and such.

“Thanksgiving-flavored” candy corn… And $49 pink pineapples. And desk tents. Least usable keyboard ever? Disturbing blazer is disturbing.

Reading Update
Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women by Sarah Bargiela & Sophie Standing. Cute short comic that combines some stats and some personal stories.
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. This was very good – I liked how she split topics into chapters (for easy reference later), and she covered some things I hadn’t seen covered in my previous reading.
Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim #11) by Richard Kadrey. A solid addition to the series. Was Stark more socially awkward in this than usual?!

“Shake my paw?” -Chaos

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Whirlwind linkity of whirlwindiness

October 9, 2020 Chris 3 Comments

Reading Update
The Unkindest Tide (October Daye #13) by Seanan McGuire. At last we find out what the Luidaeg has been darkly hinting at regarding the Selkies!
Witches of Lychford, The Lost Child of Lychford, A Long Day in Lychford, The Lights Go Out in Lychford (Witches of Lychford 1-4) by Paul Cornell. I was kinda sucked into this series of novellas until the fourth book ended with a cliffhanger. HULKSMASH.

“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem and Chaos

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Actual linkity before my next class starts on October 8

October 2, 2020 Chris 3 Comments

Bookity

New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), AAR (romance)
Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more. And even more. Cover snark. And more!
Linkity from the Pen Addict. And more. And even more.
How much ebooks cost libraries.
RBG!
Wise words from Nora Roberts on work-life balance.
A micro-SFF story.
Medieval manuscripts and strange beasts.
Librarian humor.

Think, Do, Make, Learn

Life in These Pandemic Times

WaPo’s new “wearing a mask” faq.
Well, they’re not wrong – but you’ll need a mask under that mask.
Sloths and dolphins.
Very 2020. VERY 2020.
Is it even a contender?
2020 in photos (tw blood).
2020 in photos from around Minneapolis. (No blood!)
“Using art to give simple information…on COVID-19“.
“Are you also having the mask dream?” (I’ve had at least one.)

Cookity

19 vegan soups.
26 easy tofu recipes.
40+ squash recipes.
30 apple desserts.
Sweet potato snickerdoodles.
Black midnight cake.
Strawberry spinach cake. (via gilajames)

Artsy Crafty

Cool

Short film about bickering spaceships.
Escaping.
Living with a demon (NOT about Good Omens, strangely).
Humans and reality bender infestations (NOT a reference to 45, strangely).
:chewing faster:
Linkity from BookwyrmKnits.
Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

“Mark Hamill and Sir Patrick Stewart do a truly surreal commercial“.

Wha…?

LOL

Spooky cute.
Feral scientists.
Chatting live with other shoppers at Michael’s.
Naturalists and the fae.
Zoom gothic.
Screaming Roomba. (colorful language beware)
IKEA.
Weird questions.
Curse the special place!

Teh Cute

Tapir and stripey baby! Black panther!

Reading Update
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (10th Anniversary Edition) by Michelle Alexander. Very powerful. Very tragic. Completely enraging.
Imaginary Numbers (InCryptid #9) by Seanan McGuire. Well, there IS a bonus novella at the end, but the main story ends in a cliffhanger and the next book isn’t out until late February 2021. Grr.
Temporally Out of Order edited by Joshua Palmatier. I checked it out for the Seanan McGuire short story, but I ended up enjoying nearly all of the stories in this collection.
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Middlegame by Seanan McGuire. Totally sucked me in!
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. WOW. I liked this a lot more than The Night Circus. Still won’t swear that I understood all of it!

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING, MOM???” -Chaos

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A little light’n’fluffy linkity to tide you over

September 25, 2020 Chris 4 Comments

Reading Update
The Phoenix Files (SPI Files #6) by Lisa Shearin. I’m not exactly sure why I read this, other than the ebook was checked in at my library…
In Truth and Claw (Mick Oberon #4) by Ari Marmell. I tried, but I only got a few pages in and realized I wasn’t interested in continuing this series.
To Kill a Mocking Girl (Bookbinding Mystery #1) by Harper Kincaid. Sometimes a cozy mystery hits the spot.
In an Absent Dream, Come Tumbling Down, Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children 4-5, 1) by Seanan McGuire. Tore right through In an Absent Dream and then had to go back and reread the first book because I didn’t remember who Lundy was. D’oh. Then zoomed through Come Tumbling Down, too. Whew!
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine. Powerful. Moving. Insightful. Painful. Definitely rereading it. I watched her interview with Kerri Miller of Talking Volumes (Virtual) (MN Public Radio) and took a couple pages of notes during it.