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Reading Update
Making Comics by Lynda Barry. There’s definitely some overlap with Syllabus, but Making Comics has many, many more exercises for, you guessed it, making comics.
*nodding off* -Chaos
Tag Archives: Lynda Barry
Linkity was not emotionally prepared for a foot of snow
Also, very dawdly during my linkity time, so you get a hot mess o’ linkity again. 😀
- Ursula K. Le Guin died this week – The Mary Sue. Tor.com. Smart Bitches. Tor.com. Quote. Quote.
- “How to get started with Ursula K. Le Guin’s writing“.
- Linkity from Smart Bitches. Linkity from Inkophile.
- 12 destination bookstores.
- Emma Thompson’s diaries seem like they’d be entertaining reading.
- Rosie the Riveter also died this week. (via jmcbks)
- January 25 is NASA’s day of remembrance.
- A 2013 quote from tRump about government shutdowns.
- This year’s Women’s March did not get the coverage of last year’s.
- Snow. Snow.
- 23 recipes using lentils.
- 20 citrus recipes.
- Creamy coconut cauliflower soup.
- Chicken and wild rice bake.
- Breakfast fried rice.
- Vegetarian stew.
- One pot mushroom stew.
- Creamy vegan queso dip.
- Cheryl’s tips and recipe for making easy fake bagels.
- Many recipes using peanut butter (mostly desserts).
- Easy lemon drizzle cake.
- 10 gluten-free snack recipes.
- Gluten-free rustic olive bread.
- Gluten-free air fryer fried wontons.
- “What if wizarding America isn’t silly?“
- House symbols and mottos for an assortment of internet sites.
- Knitting linkity from kmkat. Linkity from kmkat.
- Gorgeous daily macro photos from a Minneapolis photographer.
- Montreal snow car.
- Western Canada timelapse.
- The Minnesota-shaped forest in Minnesota.
- A video about ICAD (the Index Card a Day art project).
- The danger of having an Amazon Echo and a bird that can speak.
- “Funko Pop Captain America short“.
- …That robot cat looks an awful lot like a furry Roomba.
- Pencil inception.
- Harrison Ford seems like a pretty amazing person.
- Ancient civilizations based on their level of prep/jock/nerd/goth.
- Autocorrect and anniversaries.
- Baby shower cake wrecks.
- Baby red panda! Flamingo and baby! Baby penguin!
Reading Update
Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book by Lynda Barry. Another good illustrated book from Lynda Barry – this one focuses mostly on drawing.
The Bloodline Feud (The Merchant Princes #1-#2) by Charles Stross. I kept tripping over the language a bit at the beginning (it seemed overly descriptive), but I got completely sucked into the story anyway and stayed up too late to finish it. So!
The Clan Corporate (The Merchant Princes #3) by Charles Stross. Make sure you have the next book on hand, because this ends on a really evil cliffhanger!
*BLAAAAAAAAANK* -Chaos (totally alive – I checked)
Linkity agrees with Calvin
Bookity
- tRump sent a cease and desist to the publisher of Fire and Fury: Inside tRump’s White House. The publisher responded.
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from Inkophile.
- Linkity from Bookwyrm Knits.
- “A brief history of the Big Dumb Object story in science fiction“.
- Beowulf goes to the movies.
- “Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin changed my life“. (Hmm, might be time for a reread.)
- “How to build a reading nook“.
- Songs about bookstores.
- There’s allegedly a Starbuck’s secret Harry Potter menu.
Make, Think, Learn, Do
- The coelacanth.
- The scaly-foot gastropod.
- The strange tale of the Earring Magic Ken doll. (NSFW language, probably.)
- Dealing with dry eyes.
- Legislative trolling.
- The Diane and Alan Page Collection is on display at the Minneapolis Central Library.
- Oprah’s speech at the Golden Globes.
- I hope none of you have a 2006 Ford Ranger…
- It snowed in the Sahara Desert.
- The Minneapolis Mega-Murder.
- A new record prime number has been discovered – and it’s “almost 3 miles (5 km) longer than the previous record prime”.
Cookity
- 20 salmon recipes.
- “17 one-pot meals that aren’t soups or stews“.
- Red lentil sweet potato soup.
- Slow cooker golden chickpea soup.
- Slow cooker root vegetable cider stew.
- Huevos rancheros tacos.
- Lemony broccoli pasta.
- White chicken chili skillet dip.
- Pumpkin oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. (via jmcbks)
- “Small, chocolatey ways to be kind to yourself“.
Gluten Free
Artsy Crafty
Cool
- President Obama will be the first guest on Letterman’s new show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.
- Pretty journals.
- A+ dramatic and ominous photo from downtown Minneapolis.
- Space images from NASA for your computer or phone background.
- Linkity from kmkat.
Cool or Wha…?
- Game of Thrones-themed ice hotel in Finland. (via Book Riot)
- Cadbury Creme Egg Trifle.
- Fake theme park art show.
Wha…?
- You might live in Northeast Minneapolis if this is something you’ve seen. (Yes, that IS a unicycle with either an all-terrain or a snow tire on it…)
- A printer that can turn paper into fake leather, wood, alligator skin, etc.
- “Guardians of the Galaxy is leading the unlikely cassette tape revival“.
LOL
- Dragon with tree frog legs.
- Fruit dragons.
- “What if the Homeric texts are actually just a very long game of D&D“.
- Haikubaru.
- This really only makes sense if you’re on tumblr.
- Autocorrect and stormy weather.
Teh Cute
Reading Update
What It Is by Lynda Barry. Very good book about how to get started writing, presented in Lynda Barry’s inimitable style of illustration. This older book covers some of the same ground as Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor, but with less drawing involved. If I had to pick just one, I would definitely go for Syllabus. (Even though Syllabus doesn’t have the helpful Magic and Creative Cephalopod.)
“Whoa.” -Mayhem
May’s mind is apparently blown from whatever she’s absorbing from The Master and His Emissary there…
Linkity curses polar vortices everywhere
Bookity
- New releases: Tor.com (scifi, fantasy, genre-benders) and Smart Bitches (romance)
- Some free scifi stores you can read online.
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- President Obama’s lists of best books and favorite songs from 2017.
- “Five weird books for the jaded reader“.
- Untranslatable words, illustrated.
- Some tips/ideas for setting up a bullet journal.
- If you’re ever stuck for journaling prompts, check out these 730 prompts from journaling-junkie.
- Some of Diana Trout’s favorite bookbinding books.
- Reading pillows.
- A few bookmarks from etsy.
- Literary quotes.
- “…the alphabet now ends at Y.“
- Neil Gaiman’s words for the new year.
Think, Learn, Make, Do
- The 1% Theory of Fandom.
- There’s a blue moon eclipse on January 31.
- “Research proves switching to the shorter line almost always backfires“.
- Sounds like climate change could be causing the seafloor to sink.
Cookity
- One-pot kale and quinoa pilaf.
- 12 hearty vegan main dishes.
- 15 breakfast muffins.
- 11 lasagna recipes.
- 14 ways to turn a can of chickpeas into dinner.
- Slow cooker butter bean minestrone.
- Slow cooker broccoli cheddar soup.
Artsy Crafty
- Create 365 Somethings in 2018. I’m doing index card collages. What are you going to do?! 🙂
- How to start/commit to an art journal.
- Knitting linkity from kmkat.
Cool
- It’s been very cold here. Some examples: Walking on a frozen lake. Biking on a frozen creek.
- Minneapolis skyline at night.
- Where embroidery meets math.
- Where The Brady Bunch meets Star Wars.
- Hmm. The perfect coffee mug?
- Indeed, it is so.
- The danger scale. Alternate version.
- Dogs herding sheep in New Zealand.
- “Relive the climactic moments of Star Wars: The Last Jedi in LEGO“.
- Linkity from kmkat.
Wha…?
- The whole “raw water” thing… :facepalm: Edit: The graphic on this article is PERFECTION!
LOL
- Completely agreed if there’s another The United States vs One T. Rex.
- Northerners do indeed talk about the weather a lot.
- If Cerberus was a cat…
- If Bilbo and Gollum were women…
- Security vulnerabilities of the Empire from the first Star Wars movie.
Teh Cute
Reading Update
Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor by Lynda Barry. Excellent book about creativity and writing and drawing, presented in Barry’s signature style of illustration. I’ve tried some of the exercises and am continuing to work on the 4-minute daily diary. Definitely one I’ll be referring to in the future!
Spouse on Haunted Hill (Haunted Guesthouse #8) by EJ Copperman. After skipping the seventh book, I quite enjoyed this one. It’s possible this was the last book in the series – it sure felt like things were being tidied up that way at the end. (Ok, apparently there are more books on the way – so now I’m wondering if the series was in limbo for a bit and the tidying was just in case.)
“…zzzzzzz…” -Chaos