Exhausting day. No linkity energy left. (Nothing bad, just tiring.) Better luck next week! 🙂
“One does not simply walk into Mordor.” -Chaos
Art Journaling Monday!
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below. 🙂
- Pinwheel.
- Make Rise.
- “I like pears.”
- Always making rainbows.
- Braining.
- “Policing labels…”
- Watercolor whirlpool. More watercolor.
- Exhausted.
- Just play.
- Outline.
- “[P]lease notice when you are happy…”
- “The earth is not flat…”
- ART.
“So. Sleepy…” -Mayhem
Linkity ran out of titles about 5 years ago
Reading Update
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from the Pen Addict.
- “Dismantling white supremacy in public libraries”.
- Seanan McGuire on politics and genre fiction.
- Realistic book cakes.
Think, Learn, Do, Make
- “We remember civil rights legend John Lewis”.
- “I’ve been finding it difficult to be proud to be an American.“
- “In scathing speech, AOC calls out cultural misogyny and the power of privilege”.
- How to attend San Diego Comic Con virtually, for free.
- Some short scifi and horror films to watch.
- Opossums.
Life in These Pandemic Times
- “A history of American pandemic conspiracy theories”.
- It really does sound like that’s what he said.
- Quaranzines.
- Bookish masks.
- A helpful analogy…
- My reaction, too.
- A very good question.
- So. Much. Yes.
- 2020 so far. Recommended!
Cooking
- 80 easy healthy dinner ideas.
- 5 easy no-heat dinner recipes.
- 26 taco recipes.
- Strawberry Oreo icebox cake.
- Lemon cookies.
Gluten Free
Cool
- I had no idea such a thing existed. I don’t have stairs, but if I did!
- “You’ve just realized something strange about the humans…”
- Solar system embroidery.
- “Safe Passage”.
- Linkity from kmkat.
Wha…?
LOL
Teh Cute
Reading Update
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson. Excellent, very intense read. Many parts of it are heartrending and enraging and just… I had to stop reading for a bit to go donate to Black Lives Matter and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, if that helps you understand the power of this one.
“No, this is totally comfortable, Mom – why do you ask?!” -Mayhem
Oh, no reason… 😉
Art Journaling Monday!
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below.
- Unravel.
- Books and reading.
- Damn photobombers!
- Rainbow in emptiness.
- To make sense of reality…
- We need to educate ourselves.
- Patina.
- Pencil.
- “Life’s little moments”.
- “Take your broken heart…“
- Self-portrait.
- Thank u all!
- Justice…
- Serendipity.
- Watercolor experiment.
Apparently Chaos is posing for an official portrait here! 😀
Linkity is learning, always learning
Bookity
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance) and Tor.com (“speculative short fiction“, horror/genre benders)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from The Pen Addict.
- LotR Zoom reunion.
- Some excellent discussion of hobbits.
- The Tor edition of Pride and Prejudice.
- A classic painting, now with 100% more Crowley and Aziraphale.
- “The problem started with stirrups”.
- Tin Tin meets… the world of HP Lovecraft.
Think, Make, Do, Learn
- A brief history of actual cowboys, who “were majority Black and Mexican”.
- Low-tech way to reduce glare when working outside on a laptop.
- HT stop doomscrolling.
- Some cursed snail facts.
- Remember the Jefferson and descendant photo from a few weeks back? Now featuring more historic figures and descendants!
- “Normalize Black history”.
Life in These Pandemic Times
- Llamas?
- Easy way to fix a too-loose mask.
- Some truths from “a reformed insurance propagandist”.
- Some index card art that aged weirdly.
- Agreed.
- I am alarmed.
- COVID comparative risk chart. Hover cursor/long-press for caption.
- “Why do D&D players take coronavirus seriously?”
- A modest proposal…
- The truth, it burns.
- Lightbulb moment.
- Care home residents in the UK recreating famous album covers.
- Governor Cuomo, are you ok?
- The Disney World reopening video edited to look like The Stand…
- “Please scream inside your heart”.
Cookity
- 30 recipes using zucchini.
- Two-ingredient zucchini fritters.
- One-pot zucchini pasta.
- 25 easy quinoa recipes.
- Sweet corn blueberry muffins.
- Five-minute no-bake chocolate peanut butter cookies.
- Peanut butter sandwich cookies.
Gluten Free
Artsy Crafty
Cool
- Hozier and Mavis Staples sing “Nina Cried Power”.
- So basically, “Pompeii” is “alas alas alas alas” – works for me.
- Chris Hafield reviewing space movies.
- Cat lady trope corrected.
Cool or Wha…?
Wha…?
- “Someone is auctioning 50+ life-size animatronic dinos”.
- :blink blink:
- Zoom made a tablet for using Zoom.
LOL
- Well ok then.
- Twitter museum butt battle.
- Trash gryphons.  Worst kind?
- Weird pet names – one time when reading the notes won’t scar you for life.
Reading Update
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi. This is not a “how to” book. It’s an autobiographical account of the author’s journey from racism to antiracism, with many asides setting historical context. It’s good, but it is not an easy read, in the somewhat tangled way books with an academic bent can have.
A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota ed Sun Yung Shin. Excellent, eminently readable collection of thoughtful, thought provoking essays.
Black History in Its Own Words by Ron Wimberly. Slim collection of illustrated quotes from Black history makers.
*derpity derpity derp* -Chaos
Art Journaling Monday!
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below.
- Mask up.
- The ocean is scary.
- Starfish.
- “Everything was beautiful and…”
- I Eye.
- Collage.
- Overcoming.
- I think this is all of us right now.
- Snake Crowley and Azira Dove.
- Vote. More.
- On joy.
- RSD + William Stafford.
- …Until Black lives matter.
“Nope, no paper trimmer here. Why do you ask?” -Mayhem
Linkity from the Minneapolis rain forest
Bookity
- New releases: Tor.com (YA SFF, scifi, fantasy)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from the Pen Addict.
- How to make a zine.
- The history of black scifi. The Mary Sue on black scifi.
- Poetry performed by poets of color.
- “The psychology of a book hangover”.
Think, Make, Learn, Do
- “Jefferson portrait recreated by his sixth great-grandson”. (via agnesandcecilia)
- Nilgai.
- Aurochs.
- Harris hawks.
- Jacana (brace yourselves; possibly should go in Wha…?).
- Citizen science projects you can participate in.
- BOOM.
- “Learn the difference between ‘loneliness’ and ‘being alone'”.
- Ten-year timelapse of the sun.
- My musings on Generation X.
- “How to respond to common racist statements”.
- “The appropriately named CAREN Act would make racist 911 calls a crime”.
- Learn more about Black history.
Life in These Pandemic Times
- “What you say vs what I hear: COVID-19 edition”.
- “Disney World’s new ‘Welcome Back’ video looks like a bad coronavirus satire”.
- “As an American, you have a right to not wear a mask…”
- Maybe this is a repeat. I don’t care! I can’t believe it, either.
- “The importance of pandemic diaries”.
- “Bill Nye is just as done with anti-mask nonsense as the rest of us”.
- “Even mild COVID-19 can sometimes cause hallucinations and other brain problems”.
Cookity
- “30 easy recipes that start with brown rice”.
- 35 easy slow cooker chicken dinners.
- One-pot coconut-cilantro rice with chicken.
- Mediterranean spaghetti squash shrimp, olives, and feta.
Gluten Free
Cool
- “Take a virtual drive in a Mars rover”.
- Linkity from BookWyrmKnits. And even more linkity from BookWyrmKnits!
Cool or Wha…?
Wha…?
LOL
Reading Update
You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson. Gave myself a bit of whiplash, starting this right after Me and White Supremacy and White Fragility, but it was good to take a break with a lighter look at heavy issues.
“FEEDMEFEEDMEFEEDMEFEEDMEFEEDME!!!!” -Chaos
Art Journaling Monday!
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below.
- Waiting for a Lyft…
- Rainbow scribble doodle.
- It’s eerie that this poem is from 1977.
- “Will it end?”
- Schrodinger’s geode.
- I like those stories, too.
- “…because my privilege will try to make me complicit by default.”
- Monopoly.
- “Together, we resist”.
- Space exploration.
- What I left behind…
“Are you done bothering me yet?!” -Mayhem
Linkity is thankful for air conditioning
Bookity
- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Gizmodo (SFF)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more!
- Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from The Pen Addict.
- The antiracism books being requested at libraries last month.
- JSTOR is allowing 100 free articles/month without institutional affiliation through the end of the year.
- An October Daye speculation, reblogged by Seanan McGuire herself.
- “Fixing plot holes again” – a comic about the Weasley twins.
Think, Do, Learn, Make
- “Court rules Facebook widgets can be considered wiretaps”.
- The FDA has temporarily relaxed food labeling rules. ARGH.
- An interview with Layla F. Saad about antiracism.
- Some “ways white people can make life less frustrating for people of color”.
- “Your Black Friend” – a short animated film.
- “Things white people can do for racial justice”.
- “My privilege will try to make me complicit by default.”
- “How to make your activism and advocacy permanent”.
- “Serpico on police racism: ‘We have this virus among us.'”
- “Javan mouse deer” exist.
Life in These Pandemic Times
- “Public health messaging, protests, and the pandemic”.
- Coronavirus risks based on activity.
- “How masks protect us from the coronavirus”: A refresher.
- Some thoughts on viruses.
- Agreed.
- 2020, PLEASE.
- Referring to the kpop fans who reserved most of the tickets for 45’s Tulsa
superspreader eventrally. - How to safely purchase a book in a bookstore now, myjetpack-style.
Cookity
Gluten Free
Artsy Crafty
Cool
- This did not go where I expected, but it was fun!
- “The world is just awesome”.
- Can you identify all the cult shows and films referenced in this picture?
- Two very powerful videos: “March March” by The Chicks and “Are You Really Down?” by UPRISING.
- An excellent election 2020 sign from my neighborhood.
- Linkity from kmkat.
Cool or Wha…?
Wha…?
LOL
- A paper in Thailand reporting on the US like the US reports on some other countries…
- “There are so many reasons it’s hilarious that [45] thinks he looks like the Lone Ranger in a mask”.
- John Legend singing Gordon Ramsay insults.
- Evening ritual gone awry.
- I suspect the vacuum cleaner was out earlier…
- Pet training gone awry.
- Rolling with it when things go wrong for the forecaster on the news.
Reading Update
Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream by Blair Imani. This covers from 1865 through 1979 and I found it very helpful for helping me understand more how things got to where they are. I wish it would’ve included a few more recent decades, tbh. Great illustrations!
*IGNORING* -Mayhem
Art Journaling Monday!
Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! I’ve included some of my recent favorites below.
- I’m surviving.
- The photo had a Lovecraftian vibe, so…
- Labeling Brain.
- “We are infinite…”
- “Because the night…”
- Scribble doodle.
- “Young people, I want you to know…”
- Power Light.
- Ah, Mary Oliver.
“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos