Bookity

• New releases: Tor.com (scifi, fantasy) and Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• “18 powerful poetry books like Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur“.
• 50 books about nature and science.
• 100 fairy tale retellings.
• “Five books about fandom“.
• 46 quotes from Octavia Butler.
• Terry Pratchett’s notebooks from school.
• 38 bookish tshirts.

Think, Learn, Make, Do

• Things you may not have known about the movie Jurassic Park.
• If you’ve ever wondered whether vampires would prefer venous or arterial blood…
• Yes, this. John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats nails it re the whole “incels” thing.
• 100 years of kitchen color trends.
• Consumer Reports on vaccinations – both for kids and for adults.

Cookity

• Quick Thai peanut coconut cauliflower chickpea curry. (via The Kitchn)
• 10 tofu recipes.
• Magnolia Table chocolate chip cookies.
• Rhubarb and blueberry galette.
• Starbucks-style cold brew.

Gluten Free

• Brownie mix black bean brownies.
• Healthy pancakes.

Artsy Crafty

• All sorts of information about getting started with art journaling.
• Knitting linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Fantastical art.
• Needle-felted dragons.
• “You walk outside one night…and there are two full moons…“
• A delightful tale of many, many Weasleys.
• Duck butts!
• Downtown Minneapolis from across Lake Harriet.
• An 11-hour flight in four minutes.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• A conference table covered with a scene from Star Wars… made from 28,800 thumb tacks.

Wha…?

• House Republicans have nominated tRUMP for the Nobel Peace Prize.
• Hummus…milkshakes?
• “Vaccines don’t give dogs autism, veterinarians shout into the void“.

LOL

• What if the person who named Walkie Talkie’s named everything?
• A novel take on ancient Britons. NSFW.
• Cakes as really bad art. (NSFWish.)
• The most disturbing baby shower cake ever. (NSFWish.)
• Maybe it’s time for “assorted” to have a different abbreviation. (NSFWish.)
• Brace yourself for some really bad puns when you hover your cursor or long-press this xkcd.

Teh Cute

• Cute squeaky black kitty! Giant Eland and baby, plus sable antelope and baby!

Reading Update
Contents May Have Shifted: A Novel by Pam Houston. Very good story about a middle-aged creative writing instructor and outdoorswoman leading her life. The story unfolds in a series of vignettes – I thought that would annoy me, but it actually worked really well. Make sure you have a copy with the reading group guide in the back, so you can read “The Author on Her Work” after reading the book – it satisfyingly answered my questions about the story. 🙂

“TRYING TO SLEEP HERE.” -Chaos

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• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “What poetry has taught me…“
•  Typewriter Poet. (via Zeneedle)
• Poetry linkity.
• 30 quotes about poetry.
• “25 of your favorite fantasy books set in the real world“.
• Getting started with cyberpunk.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Linkity from Inkophile.

Do, Think, Make, Learn

• A good analogy for autism…once you make it past the name-calling at the beginning.
• How gaming “can develop incidental learning” or how a tween girl caused the crash of the steel market in Runescape.
• “How many Communions do you have to do before you’ve eaten a whole Jesus?“
• On music and surgery.
• On Tabasco sauce.
• “The dangerous myths of Columbine“.

Cookity

• Omurice.
• 10 easy risotto recipes.
• Healthier chicken and rice casserole.
• Slow cooker chicken enchiladas.
• Slow cooker veggie burrito bowls.
• Copycat RX Bars.
• Raspberry and almond skillet cookie.
• Cornmeal ricotta cake.
• Rhubarb cake.
• Oven s’mores dip.
• Rhubaritas.

Gluten Free

• Easy baguettes (using a baking mix).
• Yeast-free sandwich bread.
• Chocolate chia pudding.
• “The chocolate cake that changed everything“.

Artsy Crafty

• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Wee dragon.
• Rube Goldberg tape dispenser.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Cassette tape simulator for mp3s.
• Amazon wants to deliver packages to the trunk of your car.

Wha…?

• “Fox is making a Choose Your Own Adventure movie the audience controls with smartphones“.

LOL

• New Simon’s Cat film.
• A new constellation!
• Meteorologists. (Hover cursor/long-press for alt text.)
• Misinterpretation. (Again with the hovering and all.)
• Clutter. (Even more hovering.)
• Being a Cake Wrecks reader. (NSFWish)

Teh Cute

• Spring zoo babies! Baby fishing cat!

Reading Update
Creative Correspondence by Michael & Judy Jacobs. Good intro to making a variety of fun mail art. Includes directions for making paste paper – without having to cook paste.

“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem

You can see her fluffy white tummy tuft/bikini! 🙂

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• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• The impact of Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling on speculative fiction.
• On reading Samuel R Delaney. (Personally, I’d recommend starting with Babel-17.)
• An indie bookstore went viral and got a boost.
• “Gruntled, kempt, and whelmed“.
• “Godzilla sonnets“.
• Funny library signs.
• “In which Sirius Black failed to argue with a hat“.
• SAME. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)

Think, Do, Learn, Make

• A comic on the last 180 years of immigration into the US.
• A poem about life in America.
• Switchblade fish.

Cookity

• Easy oven-baked risotto.
• Broccoli and cheese risotto.
• Easy roasted veggie enchiladas.
• Split pea soup.
• 30 easy vegetarian dinners.
• 10 easy chicken and rice dinners.
• Slow cooker pesto chicken.
• Giant peanut butter cup.

Gluten Free

• Italian eggplant, beef, tomatoes, and mint.
• Glazed yeast raised doughnuts.
• Weight Watchers bagels.

Artsy Crafty

• Knitting comic.
• “SkyKnit: When knitters teamed up with a neural network”… and knit some eldritch horrors, basically.
• Linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Snow with Spoonbridge and Cherry. My neighborhood in the snow. (We had 14 inches/36 cm of snow last weekend…) (TRUTH.)
• I can’t remember if I’ve already linked this fic from elsewhereuniversity or not.
• “Be careful with your honey“.
• “That’s just 4 things“.
• A good metaphor for life.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Mini VW van.

Wha…?

• “Sexy Handmaid’s Tale sleepwear“.
• Canberra centenary skywhale.
• Capitalism UGH.
• “Singing road” failure.
• Hair covered car.
• “Mayochup“.

LOL

• What if the Avengers were cast in the 90s?

Teh Cute

• Little penguins! Fennec and babies! Baby penguin!

Reading Update

• *whistling*

*SLURP* -Mayhem

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Hurtful, but true. STOP IT, MINNESOTA. (Another winter storm watch for this weekend! Total snow accumulation of 13 inches/33 cm possible…)

Bookity

• New releases: Book Riot (audiobooks), AAR (romance), Smart Bitches (romance), and Tor.com (scifi, fantasy, genre-benders)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. More linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Harry Potter-inspired photoshoot.
• “The bodies of the girls who made me: Fanfic and the modern world” from Seanan McGuire.
• Neil Gaiman on fanfiction – at least scroll down to the two small text chunks above the gif at the end, starting with “Then again…”

Think, Do, Learn, Make

• Allergy myths and facts.
• Is “Lyme disease the first epidemic of climate change”? (via MCaspian)
• “State-by-state USA cryptid list“.
• Why you should turn to veterinarians in a zombie apocalypse.
• “There is nothing wrong with your house“.
• Ha! Those “warranty void if removed” stickers are meaningless. Repair away!
• On sunscreen and expiration dates.
• “Don’t let minimalists make you feel guilty about your ‘clutter’“.
• “It takes 90 hours to make a new friend“.
• Molly Ringwald on misogyny in John Hughes’ movies.

Cookity

• 25 recipes made with a can of chickpeas.
• 15 recipes using black beans.
• BBQ tofu salad bowls.
• Easy slow cooker bean soup.
• Vietnamese-style chicken and noodle salad.
• Slow cooker spinach and artichoke chicken.
• Orange-baked rhubarb.
• Three different one-bowl brownie recipes.
• Easy chocolate biscuit bombs.
• 10 easy, fancy single layer cakes.
• Peanut butter sheet cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting.

Gluten Free

• Flourless fudge cookies.
• Almond flour sponge cake.
• Easy cinnamon rolls.

Artsy Crafty

• Definitely read this review before rushing out to buy the new Tombow Play Color Dot Markers. My favorite line: “Alas, I cannot dot all the things.”
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Massive LEGO chimera. (via maderr)
• From the life of a retired villain…
• “Death comes for Minerva McGonagall“…
• “When real sports become a sports movie“.
• Kids singing Cloud Cult’s song “Chemicals Collide”.
• New glow-in-the-dark coin from the Royal Canadian Mint.
• Yes.
• Linkity from kmkat. Linkity from Bookwyrm-Knits.

Cool or Wha…?

• “Harry Potter dream castle for sale in downtown Minneapolis” – and it’s right around the corner from the Minnesota Center for Book Arts! 🙂
• LEGO mosaic of King Richard III.
• Plush Dave Bowman (from 2001: A Space Odyssey).
• MIT has a headset that listens to your thoughts.

Wha…?

• EWWWWW.
• “It’s a horseshoe“.
• Earthworm jerky.

LOL

• Members of The Breakfast Club as social media platforms.
• Arnulf the disruptive sheep.
• “One reason to root against every team in the Stanley Cup Playoffs“.
• On birds and men and flirting.
• New Simon’s Cat film. Or two!
• Some words of wisdom from Captain America.
• “OS born to be“.
• Interesting theory about Australia and Mad Max.

Teh Cute

• Kitten! Baby otters! Reindeer/caribou and baby! Baby clouded leopard! Sloth bear and babies!

Reading Update
The Art of Expressive Collage: Techniques for Creating with Paper and Glue by Crystal Neubauer. Reread: I appreciated this book more the second time and bumped my rating from three to four stars.

“Still no birds. Woe.” -Mayhem

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I’m taking a mental health break from linkity this week. Perhaps there’s a week you missed? Now’s your chance to catch up! 🙂

“….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos

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