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

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance), Dear Author (romance), Smart Bitches (romance), and Tor.com (genre-benders, scifi, fantasy)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• 40 I-words. 40 T-words.
• Video about recreating an old dictionary.
• 1963 documentary about Ray Bradbury.
• Game of Thrones recapped with medieval manuscripts.
• “7 books that will (probably) never be printed again“.
• Merriam-Webster throwing shade.

Think, Do, Learn, Make

• An infographic to help you survive many varieties of apocalypse.
• “Does addiction treatment require a higher power?” (via jmcbks)
• On hummingbirds and vultures.
• Ah, scholarship.
• Mix tape magic.
• “[W]omen are happier single“. (via jmcbks)
• Toxic masculinity. (via eternityinalake)
• Senator Elizabeth Warren on Trump. Republicans in their own words about Trump.
• President Obama’s last White House Correspondents’ Dinner was memorable.
• Why the ability to manipulate probability would be a very bad superpower.
• How to weave bacon.
• Planks are replacing sit-ups and crunches.
• Why cats are so weird. (Spoiler: They’re predators, but they’re also prey to larger predators.)
• “Why do we forget what we’re doing the minute we enter a room?“
• 16 odd May holidays.

Cookity

• Cheese-stuffed mashed potato cakes. (via stars-benn)
• Zucchini-chickpea fritters.
• Radish and turnip hash with fried eggs.
• Vegan sushi rice bowls.
• Vegan beet pesto pasta.
• Spring vegetable panzanella.
• Roasted spring pea soup.
• Creamy asparagus and shrimp pasta.
• 16 springish chicken recipes.
• 16 rhubarb recipes.
• “The dessert Australians and New Zealanders are squabbling over“.

Gluten Free

• Strawberry bread.
• Pita bread.
• Fudgy flourless brownies.
• Easy flourless chocolate cake.
• No-bake banana split cake.
• “Buttermilk” raspberry weeknight cake.

Artsy Crafty

• Printable strawberry-themed coloring page.
• DIY journals.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Well-loved watercolors. (I have the same set and I love it, although not quite as much.)
• Chaos, is that you?!? (Yes, yes, I purchased it.)
• Chaos, is that you?!?!?!? (Thanks, Lorraine!)
• Map jewelry.
• Short film about being completely alone in Paris.
• Time is running out to buy this (sadly expensive) Cthulhu for President t-shirt! (Thanks, PD!)
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• iPad typewriter keyboard.
• “A documentary about nerds and annihilation“.

Wha…?

• Chicken-flavored nail polish.
• Melon and cheese-flavored Kit Kats.
• Beverage-flavored Pop Tarts.
• Stockings with fake painted toenails.
• Hammock raft.

LOL

• How Batman’s physique has changed across the various movies. I love the infographic!!!!! 🙂 (via queeniegalore)
• The true meaning of various business email phrases .
• How to trick yourself into reading boring documents for work or school.
• On all those medieval images of knights fighting snails…
• You might be in Minnesota if…

Teh Cute

• Animated imagining of what dogs do when people aren’t around.

Reading Update

• Life has been too crazy/stressful for anything but rereading favorite hockey fics…

*Chaos sits down on Mayhem*

*Mayhem looks simultaneously cute and annoyed*

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance), AAR (romance), and Dear Author (romance)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• Bookity linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Writerly linkity from Becky Black.
• 40 “O” words.
• “10 notebooks to celebrate National Stationery Week” (in the UK). (via Notebook Stories)
• “Science fiction and the defiant weirdness of Queen“.
• Pleonasms.
• Infographic to help you decide which Shakespeare play to see. (via theladyscribe)
• Peacat! (Read the whole post.)
• Book sofa.
• Castle book sculpture. (via fuckyeahbookarts)

Think, Learn, Do, Make

• Minneapolis memorializes Prince. Pretty amazing, really.
• The Hubble Telescope is 26.
• “Exploring the myth of the scientific vs artistic mind“.
• On the importance of time and the invention thereof.
• “The Matrix as a transgender coming out story“.
• Short film about lying on social media.
• 15 misconceptions about eyesight.
• How monarch butterflies navigate during migration.
• The best shot of each year to cover 100 years of film history.
• Sprinkles mixing together.
• IKEA-style guides for eating challenging foods.
• “Why elk bugles sound like Ringwraith shrieks“.

Cookity

• Slow-cooker white beans in parmesan broth.
• Chickpea stew with saffron, yogurt, and garlic.
• Mediterranean chickpea and feta wraps.
• Buffalo cauliflower lettuce wraps.
• Chinese chicken salad spring rolls.
• Savory radish and goat cheese muffins.
• 14 quick spring dinners.
• Dairy-free whipped cream.
• Lemon crumb muffins. (via gilajames)
• Devil’s food cake.

Gluten Free

• Asparagus leek risotto.
• Spring pasta with asparagus and tomatoes.
• Fluffy coconut flour pancakes.
• No-bake fudge cookies.

Artsy Crafty

• “30 ways to add texture to your art journal pages“. (via icanartjournal)
• Some ways to get started with an art journal.
• 11 famous knitters.

Cool

• A poem by a 10-year old boy with Asperger’s. (via krisngoodthings)
• “Sir David Attenborough narrates Adele’s “Hello”.
• A story of princesses in towers.
• House plants with “tree” houses.
• Working LEGO particle accelerator.
• Supercut of movies arranged by color.
• Steampunk photo album animation.
• Father, son, and video games.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Jet engine chair.
• Deadpool knife block.
• Platypus tea infuser.

Wha…?

• “7 of the world’s most picturesque places to poop“.
• The longest film ever made has a seven-hour trailer.
• Pumpkin spice Cheerios.
• Do pregnancy tests really need bluetooth?
• Mattress that tattles when sex is happening on it.

LOL

• Planespotting. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• When you stop petting your cat…
• How cool is sitting in a box?

Teh Cute

• Cat and kitten (read the tags)! Baby clouded leopards! Baby penguins! Baby cheetah! Baby tigers!

Reading Update

• Hockey fic, hockey fic, yummy yummy hockey fic! 🙂

“No, I’m not on this particular square of your quilt because it brings out the color of my eyes. Where do you get your ideas, Mom?!” -Mayhem