Work continues to be crazy. I am so behind on blogs and GoodReads and life in general. Hi! :waving:

Bookity

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Gizmodo (fantasy & scifi), Tor.com (scifi, fantasy), Fiction Vixen (romance), AAR (romance), and Dear Author (romance)
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Writerly linkity from Becky Black.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• 23 Antarctican slang terms.
• “You have been transported to the location in the last book you read. Where are you?” I came out pretty well in that one: Newford and the desert near Tucson, Arizona.
• Video game set in Walden Woods.

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• On “smol”.
• Short film about the evolution of the universe.
• Who knew you could play games right in your browser?
• Do you know which is the least-visited national park in the continental US?
• “How aluminum changed the world“.
• Timelapse of a 1223 pound pumpkin growing.
• Crows and tool use.

Cookity

• Butternut squash with sriracha and coconut.
• Rainbow veggie noodle salad.
• 23 hearty vegetarian dinners.
• Caprese chicken.
• Caprese grilled cheese.
• 10 summer breakfast casseroles.
• Upside-down tomato corn cake.
• Easiest ice cream cake.
• Dulce de leche chocolate cupcakes. (via smoke-and-oakum)

Gluten Free

• Banana muffins.
• Granola bars.

Artsy Crafty

• The difference between the primary color wheel for paint and for digital.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• It’s cool, but it is definitely not the sort of mural I’d expect to see in a Radisson.
• Good to remember about autism.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Next level foam art or photoshopped?!
• R2-D2 bento box. (via The Mary Sue)
• Cassette-shaped table.
• Pop-up mosquito cage.
• “Watch classic Soviet sci-fi films for free online“.

Wha…?

• Shoecar.
• A brigadier penguin?
• Print your own Stargate.
• Inflatable cockroach for lounging on in the pool.
• Sunscreen that smells like fried chicken.
• “An axe-throwing range is coming to Chicago“.
• Axe handle made of gummi bears.
• $3000 box of colored pencils. (It’s a brand that uses cedar for the wood of the pencils, which means I will never, ever, ever try any of their pencils – even the more reasonably priced ones. :wheezing asthmatic sounds:)

LOL

• So very Chaos…
• People share the birds they’d most like to see.
• Autocorrect and religion.
• NASA and computers. (Hover your cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• Linear regression. (Hover your cursor/long-press for additional text.)

Teh Cute

• Baby puffin! Tiger and babies! Baby tree kangaroo! Panda and babies! Black kitten!

Reading Update
Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint. Upon rereading, I liked this third collection of Newford stories more than the second (The Ivory and the Horn).
Forests of the Heart by Charles de Lint. This Newford book was a solid read, but not one of my favorites.
The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint. Not my favorite Newford book – it’s a hard read. I really wanted some magical healing, dammit.

“Why are you taking a picture of my foot, Mom??!” -Chaos

Check out that proto-thumb dewclaw there, eh? He doesn’t have extra toes or anything – just large and weirdly dexterous dewclaws. I don’t think May can even move her dewclaws, besides flexing the actual claw…

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance) and Dear Author (romance)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• On the importance of ordinary people in The Lord of the Rings.
• Dune‘s plot explained via emojis.
• “Ursula K Le Guin writes blog posts from the POV of her cat, Pard“.
• “[S]candalous Victorian vulgarities“.
• Abridged classics.

Think, Make, Learn, Do

• And this is why Minnesota has the northernmost point in the continental US…
• Relaxing games you can play on your phone. (via malkinisms)
• Explore some online vintage map collections.
• “Download and print your own topographic maps from National Geographic“.
• How big Alaska actually is.
• Take the self-knowledge questionnaire. (rationality, shyness, misanthropy)
• “We are all intuitive physicists“.
• Grow a lawn chair in your front yard.
• “11 science-backed benefits of singledom“.

Cookity

• Spinach and feta mug omelet.
• Summer rolls.
• Quick fresh tomato risotto.
• Zucchini schmear.
• 20 salads to pack for lunch.
• 15 dishes using peaches.
• 30 recipes using tomatoes.
• 36 summer recipes with five or less ingredients.
• Rice Krispie/Lucky Charm ice cream cones.
• Frozen yogurt pie with boozy blueberries.

Gluten Free

• No-bake lemon cheesecake.
• Chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.
• Chicken parm meatballs.

Artsy Crafty

• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Ink on skin.
• Not the art your would expect outside a US courthouse.
• Crashing a LEGO plane.
• LEGO US Capitol.
• Explore Wikipedia as a star system.
• NASA has a new driving game.
• Waves on Lake Superior.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Black cat themed products.

Wha…?

• You no longer have to wait for a state fair in order to eat deep-fried Twinkies.
• Beer koozie tie.
• Swedish fish Oreos.

LOL

• New Simon’s Cat!
• Generic cereal.
• Best sign.
• Whew! I’m on cats one and two.
• Pilling the cat. (via malkinisms)
• “What superheroes (and supervillains) would look like as Flemish paintings“.
• Autocorrect and dinner.
• Autocorrect and kids.

Teh Cute

• Lynx and baby! Lioness and babies! Leopard and babies!

Reading Update
The Ivory and the Horn by Charles de Lint. This is the second book of Newford short stories from de Lint. They’re good, but not quite as consistently so as Dreams Underfoot, alas. I’ll still leave my original rating, though. 🙂
Trader by Charles de Lint. Body swapping, Newford style. I found myself wondering if maybe I would give it four instead of five stars upon rereading, but… I couldn’t put it down and stayed up too late, so…
Someplace To Be Flying by Charles de Lint. Crow Girls! Really, that’s it. They make the book for me. 🙂

*derpity derpity derp* -Chaos

Bookity

• New releases and more: Fiction Vixen (romance), Dear Author (romance), Smart Bitches (romance), and Tor.com (genre-benders, scifi, fantasy)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• “New study suggests that reading books might help you live longer“.
• “Why reading romance is brave and powerful“.
• “Why was Turkish Delight the ultimate temptation in C.S. Lewis’ Narnia?“
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “11 rare old words for the heinous and villainous“.
• Amazing Harry Potter/Scotland book sculpture. (via fuckyeahbookarts)

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden looks a little rough during its renovation…
• This pretty much sums up my thoughts on the US Presidential Election this year.
• Animated Civil War history.
• New S’Mores Girl Scout cookies.
• Best hospital care in the US? Rochester, MN. (I am unsurprised, having grown up near Rochester.)
• Null Island.
• The return of the citizen-scientist!
• President Obama on feminism.

Cookity

• Pepperoni-stuffed baked potatoes. (via stars-benn)
• 15 potato salad recipes.
• 16 recipes using plums.
• 25 quick summer suppers.
• Summer squash succotash.
• Summer cold noodle salad.
• Caprese avocado toast.
• Truffled corn soup.
• Hatch chile breakfast casserole.
• Mini Thai pork pitas.
• Carrot cake muffins. (via stars-benn)
• Chocolate chip mug cake. (via neighborhoodr-minneapolis)
• No-bake peanut butter protein cookies.
• No-bake chocolate tart.

Gluten Free

• Zucchini pizza.
• Chicken parmesan.
• Chicken recipes.
• Roasted corn chowder with lime.

Artsy Crafty

• Crafty tattoos. (via malkinisms)
• Exercises for knitters.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Minneapolis framed.
• Summer playlists from President Obama.
• Women of NASA LEGO set could become reality.
• LEGO Disney castle.
• Grand Teton National Park timelapse.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• This is a very unusual printmaking technique.
• Super Mario meets London Underground.
• Chorks.

Wha…?

• Spider bike.
• Q-tip crossbow.
• Pizza ATM.
• “Whopperito“.
• More pumpkin spice breakfast foods.
• Walking on a LEGO-covered treadmill…

LOL

• How calico cats give birth.
• Simon’s Cat – Fish Tank.
• Cake Wrecks and tigers.
• Autocorrect and ducks.
• Autocorrect and babies.
• Autocorrect and working out.
• Autocorrect and work.

Teh Cute

• Baby condor! Baby penguin! Baby yellow-bellied glider! Lioness and babies! Tigress and babies!

Reading Update
Dreams Underfoot (Newford #1) by Charles de Lint. This collection of short stories was the first of Charles de Lint’s Newford books that I read 20 years ago. I might not rate it quite as high now (perhaps a 4), but at the time – it was immersive and amazing and I could almost (not quite!) see hints of the magical from the corner of my eye after I finished reading. I was happy to discover that de Lint’s Newford tales have retained their own immersive magic all these years later.

“Stupid heat and humidity makes a panther princess sleepy!” -Mayhem