Long day, no time to linkity – but cats! 🙂
Harry blep!
Polly telling me a story!
Polly grooming Harry.
All posts by Chris
Linkity thinks the hints of green are teasing us
- New releases: Tor.com (horror & genre-benders, scifi, fantasy, YA SFF), Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best books out this week, mysteries/thrillers, graphic novels/comics, horror, romance, SFF)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- I hope more states ban book bans.
- Time loop ficlet.
- I didn’t see the ending of this ficlet coming.
- Another ficlet!
- “A post about home and moving on“.
- Learn about Bobbi Gibb, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1966 – she had to do so via stealth.
- “Lego recreated a VHS copy of The Little Mermaid from plastic bricks“.
- Virtually visit the various starship bridges of Star Trek.
- :blink blink: (It’s a real product.)
- Disconcerting furniture.
- It works.
- I don’t hate this – it looks cozy and efficient.
- Cool, but too folksy for me.
- Not even close to a tree house.
- As OP notes, you’d need a riding vacuum cleaner.
- Dang, they couldn’t stretch the carpet for that price?
- Has a stripper pole.
- Funky, with dangerous tub steps.
- Converted bank with dubious loft stairs.
- A very large bed and headboard were removed from the main bedroom, leaving a hot mess.
- No one will ever notice!
- “Doesn’t anyone believe in railings anymore?“
- Did they just give up on the bottom stair or what?
- Huh. They look squishy.
Reviewettes
Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores, edited by Greg Ketter. Pretty good collection of short stories about bookstores. Seemed a little heavy on the horror (do not like), but I enjoyed the stories anyway.
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto. Vera Wong grows on you until you’re suddenly, unexpectedly fully invested. Recommended.
Mayhem would like me to STOP pestering her.
Harry napping on the kitty hammock.
Polly sees BIRDS!
Linkity is ready for green growing things
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Re-Generation is a short epilogue to Star Trek: Generations.
- “[Tolkien] elves can’t do science.“
- A tease of a ficlet – I would love to read more!
- Blueberry muffin cookies.
- Oh, the built-in bookshelves!
- The Tile House.
- The Saxophone House.
- Not actually a fairy tale house but nice anyway.
- Castle on the inside only.
- Has a privacy boulder.
- Too many mirrors, plus zebra striped bathrooms.
- Very, very old stairs.
- More optical illusion stairs.
- Why.
- Huh.
- NO.
Mayhem and Harry on my lap.
Harry on the track toy.
Polly blep!
Linkity in the time of April showers
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (best books out this week, the best books out last week, nonfiction)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Some alternatives to the Book Depository, which is going away in a week.
- What if an NYC apartment block got transported into a fantasy realm?
- Sad ficlet.
- Charming microstory.
- Behind the scenes of The Fifth Element.
- Well, now that you mention it…
- Square-wheeled bicycle.
- Just a shift in perspective.
- What “the exception that proves the rule” actually means.
- Alpacas vs llamas.
- The story of Murphy, a bald eagle who was incubating a rock.
- Junkyard dragon.
- A joke.
- Carrot cheesecake bars.
- Strawberry lemon blondies.
- Spam and tater tot casserole/hotdish.
- April Fool’s Barbie house.
- A stately manor house.
- Very castle-esque.
- Castle on the outside, not so much on the inside.
- This looks like a movie set.
- Lovely historical condo.
- Another lovely one.
- Nice houseboat.
- I love the wallpaper in the second bathroom.
- Over-the-top, but not in a bad way.
- The kitchen exhaust system is wild.
- Skull house.
- Plain on the outside, not so much on the inside.
- I bet you’ll figure out why it hasn’t sold…
- Mysterious basement.
- Has its own strip club.
- So many little oddities.
- That’s a lot of money for a hot mess.
- Umm…
- But where are those “stairs” actually going?
- Huh.
- Yikes.
- Yikes again.
- Those shelves aren’t very wide toward the top.
- Relic stairs.
- I don’t think anyone will survive long enough to use the permanent stairs.
- Oh dear.
Polly sitting like a people on my lap.
Silly Harry!
Guess who thinks their dinner is late?!
Again with the cat pictures instead of linkity (plus bonus socks)
I was recuperating from a migraine (the first one in 14 months!) during linkity making time, so have some cute cat pictures instead. Plus some completed knitted objects!
Mayhem, so over my taking her picture.
Harry hanging out mostly upside-down on the kitty hammock.
Polly looking as if her body’s missing.
This pair of Meilenweit Cotton socks is for me. It’s a bit of a miracle that they match as closely as they do, because there were a couple of knots in the skeins – and in one, the colorway reversed. :Jean-Luc Picard facepalm:
These were gifted to my SIL for her birthday. Let’s just say that Fame Trend has some loooooooooong color shifts. Fortunately, my SIL claims to love this pair of only vaguely related socks.
Brief linkity of brevity
- New releases: Tor.com (horror & genre-benders, YA SFF, SF, fantasy), Book Riot (mysteries/thrillers/true crime, comics/graphic novels, romance, best books out this week, SFF), Smart Bitches (romance)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
- The background of #gnu terry pratchett.
- A good ficlet.
- Trivia from The Matrix (1999).
- Interactive map of Mars.
- Cement factory conversion.
- Cool, but not a treehouse.
- If only they’d turned that pseudo tower into a real one.
- That’s too many kitchenettes. Put some back.
- A condo with a trippy bathroom.
- Built into rocks and has a terrible kitchen.
- Stupid stairs to a tiny tub.
- Hope you’re never in a hurry.
- :blink blink:
- At least there’s a good reason for these dangerous stairs.
Mayhem!
Polly, on April Fool’s Day, with the 8″/20.3cm of snow we got overnight in the background.
Harry and his muzzle puffs!
Linkity suspects March is going out like a lion
- New releases: Book Riot (best books out this week, best books out last week)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Organizing one’s home library.
- Portland “castle with a two-story turret library”.
- Ficlet about a portrait artist and a vampire.
- Ficlet megapost, with more links than the last one I included.
- LEGO has a massive Rivendell set.
- On Aragorn and Sauron’s perception of him.
- “We must take the Ring to Jacksonville“.
- Read “the letter CS Lewis sent to JRR Tolkien describing Aslan”.
- A riveting review of Disney’s Return to Oz movie (1985).
- “A history of the ‘This Is Fine’ comic“.
- “How Tumblr turned social media polls into a game design challenge“.
- Dragon tea kettle.
- Enjoy a little stop-motion needle felted animation.
- An interesting post about astronauts attempting to express their wonder and awe when they get back to Earth.
- What is Fata Morgana?
- Make your own cinnamon extract – apparently handy for recipes where cinnamon settles out.
- Cream cheese lemon blueberry pound cake.
- I think the price on this one reflects its location at the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
- Some Tudors just have castle vibes.
- Stately condo in Boston.
- Rustic but extravagant.
- Nice dome home.
- (Compare to this not nice at all double dome home.)
- Another, very different nice home.
- Maximalist condo, must love pink.
- Delightful pink Victorian.
- Another condo, very white.
- Too. Much. Wallpaper.
- Kind of cool, but the nasty carpet needs to go.
- Mysteries plus water slide.
- Just kind of weird.
- …The Easter bunny was a mistake.
- Hollywood-themed house.
- What a guest suite.
- Big airport mood.
- What?
- That can’t possibly be the apartment’s entrance, can it?!
- All the steps are too tall, but that top one…
- “At least it had railings before.“
- Functionally invisible.
- Hmm.
- Huh.
- Yikes.
- Eww.
- Of course that’s where the cats hang out.
- These might actually be for cats and not people.
- Poor kitty – what a terrible place to live.
- Crocheted elephant… life sized.
- Indeed, a crazy art installation.
- Disturbing keyboard.
Harry upsidedown cake!
Polly upsidedown cake!
Mayhem, apparently look at the horrors.
No linkity, just cat pictures
Mayhem sleeps really hard now that she’s an old lady kitty.
Long Harry is long as he lounges on the kitty hammock.
Polly sitting like a people, more or less.
Have a great week, everyone!
Another dreary day in linkity land
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (books out this week, nonfiction)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Toni Morrison is going to be on a stamp.
- Book vending machines used to be a thing.
- Comic based on Escher.
- Mongooses have horizontal pupils.
- Koi pond coffee tables.
- Sheep cafe.
- Portable microwave – that would be my kind of camping!
- I really don’t think it should be called a salad if it includes French fries.
- Very unusual Frank Lloyd Wright house.
- Just nice.
- Octagonal house.
- Earth ship house.
- Hacienda.
- Castle hybrid.
- Too many chandeliers.
- This one has a home theater with a balcony.
- Hmm. Maybe to make sure you get splinters?
- Stairs should not be built with shelf brackets.
- Yikes.
- Whatever the reason for it, it looks silly.
Mayhem’s still a cutie!
Harry is very serious. And annoyed about having his photo taken.
Polly checks out a charging cable.
Polly gnawing on the split loom tubing protecting the charging cable…
Linkity is very tired of March’s lionish behavior
- New releases: Tor.com (horror/genre-benders, YA SFF, SF, fantasy), Book Riot (romance, mystery/thriller/true crime, best out this week)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
- On the importance of Pippin in LotR.
- “20 book apps for every kind of reader“.
- A Goodwill used bookstore.
- Epistolary ficlet.
- Another ficlet.
- This is SO TRUE.
- Hidden Valley Ranch ice cream.
- Crochet a Star Wars X-Fighter blanket/snuggie.
- This can’t possibly be a serious fashion show.
- Antique computers made from paper.
- “Yankee Candles’ stages of abstraction“.
- Somewhat disconcerting Starry Night optical illusion.
- Sequel to the horrible volume slider post: horrible options for entering your phone number.
- Cookie-stuffed brownies.
- Lovely Frank Lloyd Wright house.
- I was surprised at how well the lemon yellow accents worked.
- Castle…rowhouse.
- Hobbitish house.
- Less green on the inside. Fortunately.
- Lovely except for the lime green laundry room.
- “McMansion with a turret“.
- Buy your own square island for $225M.
- I don’t think they’re going to sell it until they get all of that “decor” out.
- Siegfried and Roy’s Las Vegas compound.
- :blink blink:
- Absolutely ridiculous bathtub location.
- Absolutely deadly bathtub setup.
- I wonder which was added first?
- Danger of impalation.
- Just danger.
- Fireplace stairs.
- WTH.
- Oh snap.
Mayhem would prefer not to have her photo taken, thanks.
Goofy Polly!
My, what a big mouth you have there, Harry!