Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Smart Bitches on reading position stock photos.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• 50 word games for kids and adults.
• “How to create a wiki to support your fantasy worldbuilding“.
• “We need to admit that Mary Poppins is a sociopath“.
• Something you might not have known about JRR Tolkien.
• Have you considered… working class wizards?
• Writing with commentary (as in sports commentary).

Think, Learn, Make, Do

• This is the last year for In the Heart of the Beast’s MayDay Parade in Minneapolis, after 45 years.
• Why asexuality needs to be more widely known.
• How to opt out of free samples from Amazon.
• Charles Darwin might have had Lyme’s disease.
• What could go wrong with the FDA’s food safety inspectors not working during the government shutdown?
• The Olivetti Lettera 22 is 65 years old.
• Food intolerances vs food allergies.

Cookity

• Cheesy garlic and herb smashed sweet potatoes.
• Sweet potato and coconut curry.
• Many ways to boil eggs.
• 3-ingredient Nutella brownies.
• Creamy orange bars.

Gluten Free

• Low-carb pizza.

Artsy Crafty

• Linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• On bowerdragons.
• “Humans are loyal if properly bonded“.
• Good words.
• More good words.
• Lots of Twin Cities’ murals. A couple are borderline NSFW, but they ARE on the sides of buildings here in Minneapolis, so….
• Inspiration for girls.
• Lin-Manuel Miranda and some friends from Hamilton saved the Drama Book Shop in NYC.
• “I’m not so weird to me.“
• John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats) on “This Year”.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• 32-year old Alan Rickman.

LOL

• This probably won’t make any sense if you aren’t a gamer.
• I have absolutely made Snickers “Salad” before, although probably not for at least 25 years. I had no idea it was such a regional thing, though.
• “No time for mansplaining…“
• About my Minnesota-shaped cutting board.
• The difference between dining out and eating at home.
• It’s so true!

Teh Cute

• Fox! Bongo and baby!

Reading Update
Trailer Park Fae, Roadside Magic, and Wasteland King (Gallow & Ragged #1-3) by Lilith Saintcrow. Good trilogy about a war between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts (Summer and Unwinter) and the half-human/half-fae who get caught in the middle.
Night Shift (Jill Kismet #1) by Lilith Saintcrow. Reread of this paranormal romance about a demon hunter whose powers are demon-enhanced. No desire to read more of the series. Last time I tried, I think I made it two books in before giving up…
The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad by Adam Gnade. What it says on the tin. It was fine. I don’t think the author and I would enjoy hanging out with each other, tho.
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer. Good young adult scifi twist on the Cinderella tale – Cinder is a cyborg.
On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz. Very good book about a woman who goes for walks with various experts (geologist, doctor, architect, etc) and experiences the various lens different people use to see the world.

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