Randonymity

• Caffetto’s current “no parking” mural:

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (UF/romance), Dear Author (romance), Smart Bitches (romance), and Tor.com (P/UF & Horror, genre benders, scifi, fantasy)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• Lots and lots of bookity linkity from Book Riot.
• Sunita on “[t]rust and secrets in Romanceland”.
• Romance as refuge.
• 10 unusual libraries. (via blue–spruce)
• “17 behind-the-scenes secrets of bookstores“.

Do, Think, Learn, Make

• “Population distribution of the United States in units of Canadas.” (via blue–spruce)
• Time said cats were a hot new trend… in 1981.
• Did The X-Files and its online fandom shape “how contemporary fandom works”? (Ignore the post’s horrible title.)
• I would be a horrible and hated parent, because I’d attach such a device to the tv/gaming consoles.
• Why we swing our arms when we walk.

Cookity

• Breakfast baked potato.
• Breakfast salad with a pizza crust waffle.
• Salsa verde breakfast nachos.
• Baked Denver omelet.
• Chicken, chard, and cranberry bean stew.
• Chicken adobo with rice.
• Rice noodle salad with spring vegetables and tahini-lime dressing.
• Spicy vegetarian ma po tofu.
• Chipotle’s guacamole recipe.
• 17 taco recipes.
• Strawberry cheesecake breakfast bars.
• Almond croissants or chocolate-almond croissants.
• Rhubarb and rye anytime cake.
• Applesauce cake.
• Brown butter Nutella skillet cookie.

Gluten Free

• Easy flourless chocolate cake.
• Cinnamon sugar biscuits.
• Cornmeal crepes with taco filling.
• Almond nut thin crackers copycat recipe.

Crafty

• Knitting linkity by kmkat.

Cool

• The intersection of Star Wars Day (May the Fourth be with you…) and cute shelter kitties in Ottawa.
• Scrap metal dragons.
• Lake of the Isles sunset. Spoonbridge & Cherry.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Wha…?

• Potato chip nachos.
• “Write an essay, win a mortgage-free goat cheese farm with 85 goats in Alabama“.
• “Listen to Thomas Edison’s scary talking dolls and never sleep again“.
• “Ambitiously homophobic Nebraska woman sues every gay on earth“.
• o.O
• “Ancient penis worm dragged itself around on super weird throat teeth“.

LOL

• Notable moments found in every NHL playoff series.
• What those laundry symbols really mean.
• Modern day sword in the stone. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• Unusual dragon hoard of… kitchen supplies. (via maderr)
• “Alien abduction bug caused male pregnancies among men who woohoo-ed with aliens in The Sims 4“.
• 8 gaming autocorrects.
• 10 movie autocorrects.
• Kitten version of Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Teh Cute

• Kitten! Kitten! Kitten! Baby penguins! Rock hyrax and babies! Mara and babies!

Reading Update
Basic Colored Pencil Techniques by Bet Borgeson. Very good book that’s exactly what’s on the tin. 🙂 I think I saw this used in Uptown a couple weeks ago – I’m going to check to see if it’s still there. It’ll be easier to use as a reference if I have a physical copy on hand, instead of repeatedly borrowing the ebook from the library. (Found it used at Magers & Quinn – yay!)
Journal It! Perspective in Creative Journaling by Jenny Doh. Gorgeous and inspiring words and images on keeping an art journal from 19 artists. Since I had to take a break in the middle of reading it to go art, I’d definitely recommend it for those looking for inspiration.

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*trying to decide if Mayhem is being annoying enough by existing that he needs to go find somewhere else to nap* -Chaos

*vaguely annoyed by the giant catlick cowlick Chaos left behind her right ear* -Mayhem