Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• “On reading, walking, and seasonal depression”.
• “Imagining other worlds in Diana Wynne Jones’ Witch Week“.
• “Introducing the Great C.S. Lewis Reread“.
• The Annotated Pratchett File is still online and contain annotations for the Discworld books, Good Omens, and more. Go download a copy, just in case! (via hollow-head)
• Is everything just fanfiction?
• Book covers reimagined.
• “Questionnaire”, a poem from Wendell Berry.
• 36 quotes from Annie Dillard.

Think, Make, Do, Learn

• Yeah, we’re real excited about tRUMP’s visit.
• Brilliant and simple hotel room hack.
• As someone who loves, magenta, WTF. The google search for “is magenta real”, because I, too, had doubts.
• Oh. Well. That’s going to take some mental recalibration.
• I hope all of you know about two-factor authentication and are using it everywhere you can.
• How cookie cutters are made.
• “Astronomers just found 20 new moons around Saturn“. SURPRISE!
• On the sleep data provided by smartwatches and other devices.

Cookity

• Easy Jiffy corn casserole.
• Instant Pot buffalo chicken.
• Crispy tofu.
• “30 basic marinade recipes for every protein (including tofu)“.
• Cinnamon-sugar shortbread.

Gluten Free

• Bread pudding.

Artsy Crafty

• Make solar system jewelry.
• Crochet a Kraken.
• Cross stitch Untitled Goose.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• “Opening into Wings” – a comic.
• Two types of cats…
• “Bam! Free bees!”
• My lockscreen, home screen, and last played song at the time of the post.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Wha…?

• “Chernobyl’s infamous Reactor 4 control room is now open to tourists“.

LOL

• Allegra has concerns.
• Oh, snap, California!
• Horrible goose traps people in TARDIS.
• Dragon threat responses.

Reading Update
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions by Neil Gaiman. More horroresque than I’m really fond of.

*glaring glarefully* -Chaos

“Yeah! What the big kitty’s doing!!” -Mayhem

Bookity

• New releases: Gizmodo (sff)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Good quote from Neil Gaiman’s Newbery acceptance speech.
• Neil Gaiman on Ursula K LeGuin.
• Learn some more about Chuck Tingle.
• “Vacay” has been added to the dictionary.
• Some thoughts on tattoos and piercing in the Harry Potter ‘verse.

Think, Learn, Do, Make

• Some of the women who’ve shaped geek/nerd culture.
• “If you want to say thank you, don’t say sorry“.
• The sound of the sun.
• “How to quiet your mind“.
• Learn a small new skill to improve your self-image.
• Cheerios flavors, ranked.
• Robert De Niro dropping f-bombs about tRUMP on live TV.
• Best wildlife photos of 2019.
• Best astronomy photos of 2019.
• “Why wasabi heat feels different from chili pepper heat“.

Cookity

• 16 fall salads.
• 28 quick dinners for one.
• Pumpkin bundt cake shaped like a pumpkin.
• Instant Pot creme brulee.

Cool

• Black hole safety tips.
• Solar system art. (via themoonmothwrites)
• Embroidered solar system.
• Some coffee shops from the past (Minneapolis).
• October gothic.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Fanfic for Untitled Goose Game. (Well, then – there are also fics for it on AO3.)
• A musical from Microsoft interns.

Wha…?

• Halloween dachshund skeleton. (I checked and yes, this is a real thing.)
• “Bishop worried that college will make women smarter than their husbands“.

LOL

• Don’t mess with MoonPie.
• Life quest.

Teh Cute

• Baby red pandas.

Reading Update
Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman. My favorite of this collection was the American Gods short story about Shadow in the UK.

“Happy birthday to MEEEEEEEEEE!” -Chaos

And now he’s 16 years old. Ack! (Please don’t try to count his teeth – I can’t remember how many he had pulled…)

Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from The Pen Addict.

Do, Make, Think, Learn

• Just say no to a remake of The Princess Bride. (Altho if it was diversified and genderswapped…)
• Behind the Nokia ringtone.
• It’s terrifying and exhausting being locked in the car.
• Some signs of ADHD.
• Some ways females with ADHD present, compared to males.
• Merriam-Webster officially added “they” to the dictionary as a nonbinary pronoun.
• Use index cards to capture new ideas.

Cookity

• 12 veggie recipes.
• Grilled corn enchiladas. (via The Kitchn)
• 15-minute shrimp and veggie stirfry.

Gluten Free

• Quick cast iron pizza.
• Rocky Road chocolate cookies.
• Apple slab pie.

Artsy Crafty

• Nothing to do this weekend? Perhaps you could knit yourself a Shetland lace fence.
• Or teach yourself the strawberry stitch, which looks like it might be one of the most fussy things ever.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Clever art.
• Good Omens cross stitch pattern.
• Movie references in “Science Fiction Double Feature”, aka The Rocky Horror Picture Show theme.
• The cat who loved camellias.
• “The moon asked the sun, ‘What do you know of love?’“
• Anticompetency on Good Omens.
• Doodle review of Good Omens Episode 6.
• “Things I’m glad the Good Omens TV show gave us“.
• Things the Good Omens fandom has decided are true.
• I put together a Good Omens playlist on YouTube, although my preferred version of the last song is only on SoundCloud.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Smash Mouth’s “All Star” done in the style of an English madrigal… by sight-reading music teachers.

Wha…?

• Sexy Mister Rogers Halloween costume.
• 10 new pumpkin spice snacks.

LOL

• The most black cat thing ever.

Teh Cute

• Baby lions! Baby red pandas!

Reading Update
American Gods Tenth Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman. I wonder how many times I’ll have to read this to completely grok what’s going on? Maybe that’s not even possible. ANYWAY. There’s a short story about Shadow in Fragile Things, too.

“Hey Mom Hey Mom Hey Mom Hey Mom…” -Chaos

Look at how white his whiskers and paws are getting!