Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance) and Dear Author (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more linkity from Smart Bitches.
• 24 banned books.
• Reshelving at the New York Public Library’s Reading Room.
• Some asexual main characters in fantasy books.
• A history of the composition notebook.
• “How I always end up buying more books“.
• Chaucer doth tweet.

Think, Do, Learn, Make

• Jane Goodall on Trump’s debate style.
• First Lady Michelle Obama. And a series of great tweets about her speech.
• The enclosed shopping mall is 60 years old – and the first mall was Southdale Center in the Twin Cities.
• “Extinct” trees found in the Queen’s Royal Garden.
• Bunker of film reels.
• “The 25 best films of the 21st century, and where to watch them“.
• Live jellyfish cam.
• Interactive exhibit of a world map from 1507.
• “How attentional bias makes you obsess over buying stuff you don’t need“.
• If you’re curious about what the symbols on sheet music mean…

Cookity

• 17 inexpensive recipes you can make with a can of beans.
• Buffalo chicken stuffed potato.
• Ricotta and roasted tomato stuffed baked potato.
• Red quinoa salad with spicy lime vinaigrette.
• Mediterranean spaghetti squash. (via The Kitchn)
• Spaghetti squash “funnel cake”. (via Lifehacker)
• Pressure cooker rice pudding.
• Pumpkin chocolate chip bread. (via jmcbks)
• Pumpkin bundt cake with cinnamon streusel and salted caramel.

Gluten Free

• Pumpkin corn bread.
• Chunky apple muffins.

Artsy Crafty

• Tutorial for making a weekly bullet journal spread. (via artjournalin)
• YARN: The Movie.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• London Tube ads replaced by cat pictures. (via urrone)
• Emma Watson narrates a short video about women’s accomplishments throughout history.
• LEGO Yellow Submarine with Beatles minifigs.
• LEGO Death Star build.
• Why introverts are quiet.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• “Build a system that automatically plays your own theme song when you walk into a room“.
• “A watch band lets you hear phone calls through your fingertip“.
• Millenium Falcon charging cable.
• R2D2 coffee press.
• Grease blast shield.

Wha…?

• “An hour of Matthew McConaughey watching rain, sipping coffee“.
• Black Doritos.
• Unicorn cafe.

LOL

• Oh, science cat. (via elvenenchantress)
• Possibly this cat is related to science cat. (via elvenenchantress)
• Autocorrects about Wednesday.
• Oh, god, the caption. (Hover cursor or long-press to read the caption.)

Teh Cute

• Tiger and babies! Javan green magpies!

Reading Update
Jack of Kinrowan by Charles de Lint. The two books contained in this omnibus edition are about Jacky and Kate, two ordinary Ottawa women who get drawn into the machinations of Faerie. Definitely not my favorites by de Lint.

“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance), Smart Bitches (romance), Tor.com (genre benders, fantasy, scifi), and Dear Author (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Inkity linkity.
• I love this house and its lawn art and its Little Free Library.
• A short film about books.
• 50 Shades of Muppets parody.
• “16 expletives we should definitely bring back“.

Think, Learn, Do, Make

• “Modern technology is making us anti-social [sic]!“
• Autism self-diagnosis resources.

Cookity

• Fall and winter crockpot  recipes. (via taylorj8771)
• Slow cooker chile verde.
• Curried chickpeas with cauliflower and coconut milk.
• Hummus-stuffed baked potato.
• 15 recipes using cinnamon.
• 15 pumpkin desserts.
• Pumpkin Nutella swirl muffins. (via jmcbks)
• Chocolate chocolate chip cookies with pumpkin. (via stars-benn)

Gluten Free

• Quiche.
• 10 gf pancake recipes.
• Maple almond granola.
• Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.
• Sour cream apple pie with crumble topping.

Artsy Crafty

• How to draw anything. (via elvenenchantress)
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.
• Knitting linkity from Smart Bitches.

Cool

• “They said kiwis were flightless birds. They were wrong.” (via itsacoup)
• The Truth Booth.
• “I’ll take the skyway…“
• Pumpkin spice motor oil.
• Fall.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Grease blast shield.

Wha…?

• Male hummingbird courtship display.
• Bucket of plastic poop.
• LEGO hair bike helmet.
• Pineapple teriyaki burger-flavored beer.

LOL

• Amount of work. (Hover cursor/long-press for caption.)
• Hitting the comet. (Hover cursor/long-press for caption.)
• Accurate.
• Black cat hiding FAIL. (via malkinisms)
• “If the ancients had Buzzfeed“.
• Autocorrects about sleep. Autocorrects about weather.

Teh Cute

• Baby red pandas. Otter and babies!

Reading Update
Medicine Road by Charles de Lint. Solid contemporary fantasy about the fiddle-playing twins from Seven Wild Sisters on tour in Arizona, where they meet some interesting and unusual people…

“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos

Why do I always forget that lidocaine injections leave me feeling spacey and exhausted a few hours later?! Ugh. I had four “suspicious looking” moles removed earlier today and I am fading fast now… (I’ll find out in about a week if they were more than suspicious looking.) *yawning*

There won’t be any linkity at all next week, as I’ll be in Cleveland for work most of the week…

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance) and Dear Author (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• 11 websites with free audiobooks.
• 11 mugs for scifi/fantasy readers.
• “These 50 American slang words are in danger of disappearing“. (via mental-floss)

Think, Make, Do, Learn

• Some women in history.
• “The 20 happiest states in America“.
• xkcd’s Earth temperature timeline. (Hover cursor/long press for additional text.)

Cookity

• Sheet pan sweet potatoes and black bean hash.
• Sheet pan honey-sesame tofu and green beans.
• Cheesy lentil, mushroom, and rice bake.
• 21 inexpensive recipes with rice.
• Muffin pan spinach lasagna.
• Salted toffee cookie bars. (via jedi-seagull)
• Strawberry cheesecake stuffed pound cake. (via stars-benn)

Gluten Free

• Chocolate chip cookies, with your choice of four different gluten-free flours.

Artsy Crafty

• “[M]ath concepts explained by knitting and crochet“.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• There was much more to the Diva’s performance in The Fifth Element – now you can see (and hear) it all!
• A really excellent short Harry Potter story that would’ve ended the series much, much sooner.
• X-Files bloopers.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Lavender labyrinth. *ah-choo!*
• Triple domino spiral.
• A mobile game where you just pet animals’ fur.

Wha…?

• Definitely deflate your giant inflatable moon if there’s a typhoon in the forecast.
• Pumpkin spice latte beer.
• Huge, dynamic e-ink screens on semi trucks won’t be distracting at all, I’m sure.
• “Artist builds working swing on a BART train.” Um.
• Life-sized octopus bag.
• State fair-themed restaurant to be added to a Walmart in Texas.
• There’s a You Tube channel where you can watch paint dry.

LOL

• Have I done this one before?! How the other species in the Federation view probably humans. (This is much easier to read in the Tumblr mobile app, I must say.)
• How to adult.
• Products for fragile masculinity.
• Expectations vs reality.
• Ways cats express love…
• Autocorrect and morning coffee.
• xkcd on the solar spectrum. (Hover cursor/long press for additional text.)
• A possibly NSFW Cake Wrecks.

Teh Cute

• Lynx and babies! Baby red panda!

Reading Update
Muse and Reverie by Charles de Lint. Another solid collection of Newford short stories, set before Widdershins.
The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint. I’m not a big YA fan, even for a Newford book. It wasn’t a bad book! And I did enjoy the tiny cameos and mentions of a few of the established Newford folks.

“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos

“Was that a bird I heard?!??” -Mayhem

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance), Tor.com (genre benders), and Dear Author (romance)
• Linkity from Smart  Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• On bullet journaling.

Do, Think, Make, Learn

• Is this American Gothic? (via malkinisms)
• How animals see in the dark.

Cookity

• 21 apple recipes.
• Scrambled chickpea and spinach pitas.
• Tomato-basil morning muffins.
• Brownie batter swirl smoothie. (via stars-benn)
• Chocolate and peanut butter molten lava cake. (via gilajames)
• Confetti cookie dough cake. (via stars-benn)

Gluten Free

• Apple dumplings.

Artsy Crafty

• A very pink yarn bombing.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• My phone and tablet lock screens, for the curious. (Not that they’re cool, but sheesh, this section was looking kinda sad.)
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Pre-damaged Star Trek redshirt tshirt.
• USS Enterprise rocker.
• Flat-pack truck.

Wha…?

• Signs. (Some are NSFW.)
• Gosh, I can’t imagine why this picnic basket shaped building isn’t selling.
• Bubblegum flavored broccoli.
• Lumberjack virtual reality game.
• Carbonated milk.
• “Mercedes working on delivery vans that deploy robotic carrier pigeons“.
• Tactical spork.

LOL

• Oh, Walmart. (via maderr)
• xkcd on exoplanets. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• xkcd on migrating geese. (Hover cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• Simon’s Cat and toilet paper…
• Simon’s Cat takes on the trash.
• Summer cat states.
• Rivalry in the Midwest.
• “The Muppet doo-doo post“.
• Autocorrects “that are sure to work you up”.
• Back to school with autocorrect.

Teh Cute

• Red panda and babies! Cheetah and puppy! Jaguar and baby! Tiger and babies!

Reading Update
Tapping the Dream Tree by Charles de Lint. Another good collection of short stories set in Newford and the hills nearby.
Spirits in the Wires by Charles de Lint. This isn’t one of my favorite Newford books – it doesn’t have quite the zing of some of the other books and some of the overly specific technology bits have not aged well.
Widdershins by Charles de Lint. I don’t think I realized the first time I read this book that, because of how all the ends are tied up, this was probably the final big Newford book.

“Can’t a girl enjoy her box in peace?!” -Mayhem

Work continues to be crazy. I am so behind on blogs and GoodReads and life in general. Hi! :waving:

Bookity

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Gizmodo (fantasy & scifi), Tor.com (scifi, fantasy), Fiction Vixen (romance), AAR (romance), and Dear Author (romance)
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Writerly linkity from Becky Black.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• 23 Antarctican slang terms.
• “You have been transported to the location in the last book you read. Where are you?” I came out pretty well in that one: Newford and the desert near Tucson, Arizona.
• Video game set in Walden Woods.

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• On “smol”.
• Short film about the evolution of the universe.
• Who knew you could play games right in your browser?
• Do you know which is the least-visited national park in the continental US?
• “How aluminum changed the world“.
• Timelapse of a 1223 pound pumpkin growing.
• Crows and tool use.

Cookity

• Butternut squash with sriracha and coconut.
• Rainbow veggie noodle salad.
• 23 hearty vegetarian dinners.
• Caprese chicken.
• Caprese grilled cheese.
• 10 summer breakfast casseroles.
• Upside-down tomato corn cake.
• Easiest ice cream cake.
• Dulce de leche chocolate cupcakes. (via smoke-and-oakum)

Gluten Free

• Banana muffins.
• Granola bars.

Artsy Crafty

• The difference between the primary color wheel for paint and for digital.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• It’s cool, but it is definitely not the sort of mural I’d expect to see in a Radisson.
• Good to remember about autism.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Next level foam art or photoshopped?!
• R2-D2 bento box. (via The Mary Sue)
• Cassette-shaped table.
• Pop-up mosquito cage.
• “Watch classic Soviet sci-fi films for free online“.

Wha…?

• Shoecar.
• A brigadier penguin?
• Print your own Stargate.
• Inflatable cockroach for lounging on in the pool.
• Sunscreen that smells like fried chicken.
• “An axe-throwing range is coming to Chicago“.
• Axe handle made of gummi bears.
• $3000 box of colored pencils. (It’s a brand that uses cedar for the wood of the pencils, which means I will never, ever, ever try any of their pencils – even the more reasonably priced ones. :wheezing asthmatic sounds:)

LOL

• So very Chaos…
• People share the birds they’d most like to see.
• Autocorrect and religion.
• NASA and computers. (Hover your cursor/long-press for additional text.)
• Linear regression. (Hover your cursor/long-press for additional text.)

Teh Cute

• Baby puffin! Tiger and babies! Baby tree kangaroo! Panda and babies! Black kitten!

Reading Update
Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint. Upon rereading, I liked this third collection of Newford stories more than the second (The Ivory and the Horn).
Forests of the Heart by Charles de Lint. This Newford book was a solid read, but not one of my favorites.
The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint. Not my favorite Newford book – it’s a hard read. I really wanted some magical healing, dammit.

“Why are you taking a picture of my foot, Mom??!” -Chaos

Check out that proto-thumb dewclaw there, eh? He doesn’t have extra toes or anything – just large and weirdly dexterous dewclaws. I don’t think May can even move her dewclaws, besides flexing the actual claw…

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (romance) and Dear Author (romance)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• On the importance of ordinary people in The Lord of the Rings.
• Dune‘s plot explained via emojis.
• “Ursula K Le Guin writes blog posts from the POV of her cat, Pard“.
• “[S]candalous Victorian vulgarities“.
• Abridged classics.

Think, Make, Learn, Do

• And this is why Minnesota has the northernmost point in the continental US…
• Relaxing games you can play on your phone. (via malkinisms)
• Explore some online vintage map collections.
• “Download and print your own topographic maps from National Geographic“.
• How big Alaska actually is.
• Take the self-knowledge questionnaire. (rationality, shyness, misanthropy)
• “We are all intuitive physicists“.
• Grow a lawn chair in your front yard.
• “11 science-backed benefits of singledom“.

Cookity

• Spinach and feta mug omelet.
• Summer rolls.
• Quick fresh tomato risotto.
• Zucchini schmear.
• 20 salads to pack for lunch.
• 15 dishes using peaches.
• 30 recipes using tomatoes.
• 36 summer recipes with five or less ingredients.
• Rice Krispie/Lucky Charm ice cream cones.
• Frozen yogurt pie with boozy blueberries.

Gluten Free

• No-bake lemon cheesecake.
• Chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.
• Chicken parm meatballs.

Artsy Crafty

• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Ink on skin.
• Not the art your would expect outside a US courthouse.
• Crashing a LEGO plane.
• LEGO US Capitol.
• Explore Wikipedia as a star system.
• NASA has a new driving game.
• Waves on Lake Superior.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Black cat themed products.

Wha…?

• You no longer have to wait for a state fair in order to eat deep-fried Twinkies.
• Beer koozie tie.
• Swedish fish Oreos.

LOL

• New Simon’s Cat!
• Generic cereal.
• Best sign.
• Whew! I’m on cats one and two.
• Pilling the cat. (via malkinisms)
• “What superheroes (and supervillains) would look like as Flemish paintings“.
• Autocorrect and dinner.
• Autocorrect and kids.

Teh Cute

• Lynx and baby! Lioness and babies! Leopard and babies!

Reading Update
The Ivory and the Horn by Charles de Lint. This is the second book of Newford short stories from de Lint. They’re good, but not quite as consistently so as Dreams Underfoot, alas. I’ll still leave my original rating, though. 🙂
Trader by Charles de Lint. Body swapping, Newford style. I found myself wondering if maybe I would give it four instead of five stars upon rereading, but… I couldn’t put it down and stayed up too late, so…
Someplace To Be Flying by Charles de Lint. Crow Girls! Really, that’s it. They make the book for me. 🙂

*derpity derpity derp* -Chaos

Bookity

• New releases and more: Fiction Vixen (romance), Dear Author (romance), Smart Bitches (romance), and Tor.com (genre-benders, scifi, fantasy)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• “New study suggests that reading books might help you live longer“.
• “Why reading romance is brave and powerful“.
• “Why was Turkish Delight the ultimate temptation in C.S. Lewis’ Narnia?“
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “11 rare old words for the heinous and villainous“.
• Amazing Harry Potter/Scotland book sculpture. (via fuckyeahbookarts)

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden looks a little rough during its renovation…
• This pretty much sums up my thoughts on the US Presidential Election this year.
• Animated Civil War history.
• New S’Mores Girl Scout cookies.
• Best hospital care in the US? Rochester, MN. (I am unsurprised, having grown up near Rochester.)
• Null Island.
• The return of the citizen-scientist!
• President Obama on feminism.

Cookity

• Pepperoni-stuffed baked potatoes. (via stars-benn)
• 15 potato salad recipes.
• 16 recipes using plums.
• 25 quick summer suppers.
• Summer squash succotash.
• Summer cold noodle salad.
• Caprese avocado toast.
• Truffled corn soup.
• Hatch chile breakfast casserole.
• Mini Thai pork pitas.
• Carrot cake muffins. (via stars-benn)
• Chocolate chip mug cake. (via neighborhoodr-minneapolis)
• No-bake peanut butter protein cookies.
• No-bake chocolate tart.

Gluten Free

• Zucchini pizza.
• Chicken parmesan.
• Chicken recipes.
• Roasted corn chowder with lime.

Artsy Crafty

• Crafty tattoos. (via malkinisms)
• Exercises for knitters.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Minneapolis framed.
• Summer playlists from President Obama.
• Women of NASA LEGO set could become reality.
• LEGO Disney castle.
• Grand Teton National Park timelapse.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• This is a very unusual printmaking technique.
• Super Mario meets London Underground.
• Chorks.

Wha…?

• Spider bike.
• Q-tip crossbow.
• Pizza ATM.
• “Whopperito“.
• More pumpkin spice breakfast foods.
• Walking on a LEGO-covered treadmill…

LOL

• How calico cats give birth.
• Simon’s Cat – Fish Tank.
• Cake Wrecks and tigers.
• Autocorrect and ducks.
• Autocorrect and babies.
• Autocorrect and working out.
• Autocorrect and work.

Teh Cute

• Baby condor! Baby penguin! Baby yellow-bellied glider! Lioness and babies! Tigress and babies!

Reading Update
Dreams Underfoot (Newford #1) by Charles de Lint. This collection of short stories was the first of Charles de Lint’s Newford books that I read 20 years ago. I might not rate it quite as high now (perhaps a 4), but at the time – it was immersive and amazing and I could almost (not quite!) see hints of the magical from the corner of my eye after I finished reading. I was happy to discover that de Lint’s Newford tales have retained their own immersive magic all these years later.

“Stupid heat and humidity makes a panther princess sleepy!” -Mayhem