Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance) and Dear Author (romance)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• Authorly linkity from Becky Black.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Comparison of the Pilot Metropolitan and Lamy Safari budget fountain pens. (I like the Pilot Metro much better than the Lamy Safari, which has a triangular grip that doesn’t correspond to how I hold fountain pens. I suspect the reviewer didn’t use the Metro posted, which gives it a bit more weight and balance.) (Also, check out the TWSBI Eco, which is a great pen for just a little more than the Lamy Safari.)
• Built from Ink and Tea reviews Lamy’s Dark Lilac ink.
• How bullet journals work (at the bottom of the post).
• “George R.R. Martin to Stephen King, ‘How the fuck do you write so fast?’“

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• “Let’s talk about the ‘universal’ (white, male) artist“. (via neighborhoodr-minneapolis)
• “21 little things you forgot you used to do“. (via pipervaughn)
• How privileged are you, according to Buzzfeed’s test? (via eternityinalake) (I got a 40, which is “not privileged at all”… hmm.)
• Learn how to become a birdwatcher.
• “Why use sunscreen? Just look at your butt” (unless you’re a nudist).
• Tour the International Space Station.
• Did you get free tickets in the Ticketmaster settlement?
• Why (some) cats are picky eaters. (Compare to Chaos, who’s not picky. At all. He’s more, “Give me all the fud, I must have it, give me give me give me.”)
• Why cats sleep in odd places.
• Cats understand a little bit of physics.
• Simulation of what it’s like to be autistic.

Cookity

• 15 spicy dishes for summer.
• 22 salad recipes.
• Tofu and broccoli salad with peanut butter dressing.
• Zucchini buffalo chicken salad.
• Kale bistro salad.
• Carrot peel pesto.
• Chocolate meringue tart.
• 12 no-bake desserts.

Gluten Free

• Double chocolate zucchini bread.
• Peach cobbler.
• Blondies, with variations.
• Healthy muffins.

Artsy Crafty

• Knitting linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• This year’s Minnesota State Fair poster has a llama on it.
• Galaxy doughnuts.
• Learn about the first surviving feature-length animated film, by a female filmmaker in 1899.
• Three years of life in Singapore.
• The Art of Making, Geometry.
• “Making art can relieve stress at any skill level“.
• Supercut of sad movies for when you need a good cry.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• The new foods at the Minnesota State Fair this year. (stuffaboutminneapolis)
• “Kevin Bacon on ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’“.
• Star Wars perfume.

Wha…?

• NO.
• Politics are surreal all over, I guess.
• Roach cake… at least it doesn’t contain roaches?
• “Mac’n’Cheetos“.
• Whipped cream on vegetables.
• I hope they didn’t sing “78,500 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” as they drove away from the scene of the crime.
• Nonalcoholic wine for cats.

LOL

• So busted.
• 10 beach-themed autocorrects.

Teh Cute

• Tiger and baby! Moose and baby! Baby penguin! Baby mountain goat!

Reading Update

• Look! Up in the sky!!! 😉

“If you wanted to use this backpack, you shouldn’t have left it on the floor! It’s mine now.” -Mayhem

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance), Dear Author (romance), Smart Bitches (romance), AAR (romance), and Tor.com (fantasy, scifi, genre-benders)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Ted Kooser on keeping a journal.
• Sunita shares how she does morning pages.
• Lloyd Alexander on favorite books.
• Optical illusion bookstore. (via neil-gaiman)
• Very large bookcase.
• 50 bookends.
• Leonardo da Vinci fountain pen.
• “7 things I learned in 7 years of reading, writing, and living“.
• Famous poems rewritten as limericks.
• “Two medieval monks invent bestiaries“. (via bronwyngreenauthor)
• How writing a novel actually works.

Do, Think, Learn, Make

• Manologue.
• “Depression-busting exercise tips for people too depressed to exercise“. (via gilajames)
• 17 unusual June holidays.
• “How long would it take to fall through the earth?“
• Consumer Reports has made its mosquito repellent rankings free.
• “Huge adult ideas taught to us by weird movies“.
• The US has new Pluto stamps.

Cookity

• 18 strawberry recipes.
• Upside-down taco bowl.
• Upside-down steak dinner bowl.
• Upside-down chicken curry bowl.
• Upside-down BBQ chicken bowl.
• Salmon burger with avocado aioli.
• Rhubarb compote.
• Chai-spiced popcorn bars.
• Baked banana bread doughnuts with milk chocolate glaze. (via wilwheaton)

Gluten Free

• Cauliflower fried “rice”.

Artsy Crafty

• Photo from a screen printing class I took.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Aerial photos of Minneapolis. (via stuffaboutminneapolis)
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Vitruvian Man action figure.
• Star Trek swimming suits.
• Working LEGO chainsaw.
• Coffee and tea brewing alarm clock.

Wha…?

• …I have questions.
• Zipper that tells you when your fly is down.
• 3D printed pancakes.

LOL

• Feel old. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• “Guide to figuring out the age of an undated world map“. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• Black kitties are weird.

Teh Cute

• Wow. Apparently I found nothing cute this week. O.O

Reading Update

• *whistling*

“Hmph. I don’t care that it’s getting warmer out, Mom – you should still sit with the fleecy blanket over your legs so the big kitty and me can nap on you.” -Mayhem