Think you can figure out what the mysterious items are from Eryka’s purse before March 20? If so, you could win a $50 KnitPicks gift certificate!
Over at Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist, you could win a copy of Peter S. Beagle’s novel A Fine and Private Place, plus a copy of his new short story collection, We Never Talk About My Brother.
Largehearted Boy’s giving away three classic Dickens’ novels – comment by March 18 for your chance to win.
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The Periodic Table of Typefaces is pretty cool.
If you’re a Moleskinne fan, check out the desktop icons.
Top 10 reasons that knitting is better than therapy.
Ah, yes, this reminds me of my attempts to keep Chaos off the counters and table. And really, have you given enough thought to your zombie attack survival plan?
Thanks for Cyn for the link to this Osaka cat cafe. *ahem* I’m sure some of us you could run one of these from home…
Beware – Red Tango has more cute kitty merchandise available…
Reading Update
Ravenous: The Dark Forgotten by Sharon Ashwood. Witches and vampires and werewolves and demons and ghouls, oh my! This looks like it will be the first book in a new series, and I can only hope that the next book is as intense and enjoyable to read. Definitely recommended.
Tempt Me With Darkness (The Doomsday Brethren, Book 1) by Shayla Black. Wizards! And a warrior cursed to immortality by Morgan le Fay. The writing’s a bit clumsy at times, but either it improved as the book progressed or I got so involved with the story that it didn’t bother me anymore. I’m off to see if there are more books in this series. Maybe it’s just me, but there were two characters who reminded me of Voldemort and Snape… (Oh, I won this book over at Midnight Moon Cafe.)
Wicked By Any Other Name by Linda Wisdom. The third book in the series that started with 50 Ways To Hex Your Lover is another enjoyable chicklitty paranormal romp.
Raven: A Novel of the Cleveland Undead by S. A. Swiniarski. An excellent non-series vampire novel written in 1996. Highly recommended, especially if you enjoy a good mystery with some amnesia tossed in. (This was part of Blood and Rust: Two Novels of the Cleveland Undead, but while The Flesh, the Blood, and the Fire was equally well-written, it was a historical mystery that never really captured me, so I didn’t finish it.)
The Red Heart of Jade and Eye of Heaven (Dirk & Steele, Books 3-4) by Marjorie M. Liu. Kick butt paranormal folks working for a mysterious detective agency. Recommended.
Night Fall and Night Shadow by Cherry Adair. More T-FLAC wizards! Woot. Much as I enjoy these, I must remind you that they are not the best-written books you’ll ever find.
Strong and Sexy (Sky High Air, Book 2) by Jill Shalvis. I’ve now finished this trilogy, which was okay contemporary romance/romantic suspense. But now I have to wonder if every main male in Jill Shalvis’ books has a scar across one of his eyebrows.
Mean Streets by Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green, Kat Richardson, and Tomas E. Sniegoski. Very good stories about Harry Dresden, John Taylor, and Greywalker Harper Blaine. I suspect the Remy Chandler story was good, too, but I’ve never been able to get into that series, so I skipped it. Definitely recommended if you’re a fan of any of these authors.
The Better To Hold You by Alisa Sheckley. A very different paranormal romance about werewolves. Parts of it had promise, but in the end, it was too disturbing for me and just not that good.
Magic in the Wind (Drake Sisters, Book 1) by Christine Feehan. I actually read this novella a while ago, as part of the Lover Beware anthology, but having read most of the Drake Sisters’ series recently, I picked up this standalone when I saw it at the library. While the later Drake Sisters books are better, I continue to just shake my head at the s3x scenes.
“I am a vampire panther girl! Rowr! (Were you really, really scared?)” -Mayhem
Aren’t they afraid someone will break the scale 😉
That is the scariest kitty face I’ve ever seen!
Does it count as scary that she was yawning? If so, I’m terrified.
And here I thought that only Blogger had such daft moments.
Loved the Periodic Table – but then, you knew I would 😉
Wow, not only are you a vampire girl, but you’ve also turned into Hovercraft Kitty.
That is so wrong. I thought we would have evolved to the point where shaming people into doing something is not tolerated. Guess not.
UGH.. I didn’t notice that WP was being a pain again! After one of the many updates I ended up having to blog in HTML for about 2 weeks until they got out a debugged version.
That bus stop scale is very interesting, though I’m curious to see how much her bag weighs because she doesn’t look like she could weigh 150 by herself… I’m wondering if she has groceries or shopping in that huge bag of hers, since folks there don’t use plastic sacks for their shopping like we do.
OH. MY. GOD. That bus stop gym ad is SO SO SO WRONG. Holy crap!!!
But I lurve the bookmarks.
You’re right, the Periodic Table of Typfaces is nifty.
i never know when to use the word daft, i know it looks cool when other people use it
Awesome linky day! The Osaka cat cafe…wowee. Must have periodic typeface table. Busstop scale is very wrong indeed. And so much more…
I did not even have to click on the lolcats link — knew which ones you were referring to. There seem to have been an unusual number of long-haired black kittehs there lately, have you noticed? Maybe Hannibal has been moonlighting…
Don’t you wonder how they get these scars above their eyebrows? Are they old sports scars? Was it a knife fight? She mentions the scar – but never tells us where it came from.
“While the later Drake Sisters books are better, I continue to just shake my head at the s3x scenes.”
So, shaking your head, is that appalled? bewildered? disgusted? amazed? Inquiring minds want to know!
Love the Periodic Table of Typefaces! The scale at the bus stop, not so much.
My May, you do look quite scary!
html? you totally rock, my friend. Never let it be said that anyone can hold you back!
that scale. bah humbug.
knitting vs therapy = a very good chuckle. (and oh so true… there will be no therapist fondling, thank you very much)
and vampira-kitty? Miss Em and Lady Di are swooning here by the screen.
Hee, “daft” just about covers it. What a great title.
Oh yes – I’d give up work to run a cat cafe but I’d have to get more cats 😉
Good thing there are still 3 of us left that can still write in HTML 1.0. WordPress had a hard time using its own bulleted line commands on my blog so I wrote them myself. Ah, the good ol’ days…
That Periodic table is amazing.
Terrified, Mayhem, terrified!
I want to know how many people sit on that scale and have no clue their weight is posted right next to them….yikes!!
Awwrighty Chris! Your info blog of the Midwest is still happening! As soon as I get outta here (work), I’m gonna go home and CATch up! Hope everything’s good.
Typepad’s on a new platform, that’s driving me crazy! Why do folks like to fix what works?
Mayhem’s face is priceless! Is she having a reincarnation moment?:-)
Why does bloglines hate you? Whjy are asll your comments being centered like that? Why is May screaming at us? Why, why, why I ask you??
I do not think I’d be sitting on that bench!
i wonder if we could talk the kitties into working at a cat cafe, the extra $ might be nice :p
Those bookmarks are genius! Just today I busted my thumbnail trying to jimmy a book out of our bookcase. Too bad it’s not close to Christmas. They’d make awesome stocking stuffers.
For once I’m happy I don’t use Google! (Okay, I’m happy most days, except when a job hunting group says you “have” to have a gmail email account or you’re not taken seriously as a job hunter.)
Come on Chris, are you *really* reading all those books? I mean, do you hold them up to your forehead and absorb them through osmosis or what? That must be it.
My mom is a fast reader, but I am convinced she is just skimming the books for the most important bits.
Also, totally loving the roaring kitty pic!
While I would tell someone how much I weigh if they asked, I really don’t want it announced to the world.
I keep thinking of my failed efforts to keep Katie away from the couch with double stick tape. She just pulled them off and threw them on the floor.
I love those bookmarks. And May, I was really, really scared!
The bus stop gym wouldn’t bother me, but that’s partially because people’s clothing can add a lot of weight. People were commenting that she was about 150 lbs, but she’s wearing a long heavy coat and has her bag on the bench next to her. The scale on gives you a general idea, but with those items removed she’d be much ‘lighter’ looking at least according to the scale.
OMG I *so* should’ve told the guy I was preparing for a zombie attack last time I bought cat food. I swear he looked at me like I was the crazy cat lady!!!
Best links ever! I am so doing that cat box closet thing.