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…)

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*thlurrrrp* -Chaos

*purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr* -Mayhem