Once again, on-call stuff ate into my linkity making time. So! Here’s what I got.
- “The Shapes of Stories” by Kurt Vonnegut.
- What if famous writers wrote fic on AO3? Start here. Then read the replies, with many more authors.
- Lovely shot of the Lowry Avenue Bridge (Minneapolis).
- Bald eagle flying through a rainbow.
- Last week, Minneapolis passed the $15/hour minimum wage. My US Representative was pretty happy about it. 🙂
- Who’s a smart corvid? Is it you?
- Go, STEM girls!
- “I believe that it is difficult to kill an idea because ideas are invisible and contagious, and they move fast.“
- A novel-writing masterlist.
- That was… not what I expected from the cover.
- Recipes around the world.
- Help pick a name for Crayola’s new shade of blue crayon.
- Roasted cauliflower salad with chickpeas, feta, and herbs.
- Chicken and veggie pesto salad.
- 20 dinner recipes using zucchini.
- 50 cheerfully colored summer recipes.
- 10 no-cook meals.
- Pop Rocks s’mores. (via The Kitchn)
- Gluten-free peach crisp.
- Gluten-free quinoa salad with pineapple, broccoli, and mint.
- Why do we sing do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do anyway?!
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- Linkity from Inkophile.
- Pedal-powered elevator.
- Cake Wrecks on the 4th of July.
- That is a lot to ask of your coffee.
- A picture I took of one of the new sculptures in the Walker Sculpture Garden over the weekend.
- Knitting linkity from kmkat. And linkity linkity from kmkat.
- Awkward Buzz Lightyear moment with tRUMP.
- Covers of songs about social justice.
- xkcd on the emoji movie. (Hover cursor/long-press for caption.)
- “tRUMP supporters cry bias after NPR tweets the Declaration of Independence.“
Reading Update
Freehand: Sketching Tips and Tricks Drawn from Art by Helen Birch. Good overview of a wide array of artistic tidbits, such as “Suggesting Time”, “Negative Space”, “Damp Ground”, “Aerial Gaze”, “Complementary Colors”, etc. Feels more scattershot than I was expecting for some reason.
“I’m hiding! You can’t see me, Mom! So stop pretending you can.” -Mayhem
Gorgeous cock photo! I cannot wait to visit the sculpture park myself. and thank you for the linky!
Chris- The blue rooster sculpture and the blue crayon- blue is my favorite!
Keep cool this weekend.
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That peddle-powered elevator looks a bit wobbly to me, I’ll stick to the stairs. 😀
1. I chose Lolita as my book group read a few years back. Almost no one read it nor came to the discussion (a very unusual response). Personally, I found it hilarious that the sexual predator kidnaps his *girl* and she turns out to be as annoying as a teenage girl can be.
2. My representatives (federal and state) would all be appalled at a $15 minimum wage. I covet your rep.
3. I would name the blue crayon Greek Blue (a pedant joke — the ancient Greeks had no word for blue).
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Just caught up on the last 2 linkities. Evidently blue cocks are becoming all the rage there.
Love, love, LOVE Neil Gaiman.
That novel writing list is quite thorough. I’ll have to save it to read in detail later.
My state’s (CA) minimum wage isn’t scheduled to hit $15 until 2022. Sigh. But several of the cities/counties in my local area (the SF Bay Area) have increased the local minimum wage beyond the state minimum, so that’s better at least. Still. It sounds like your rep is in touch with the local population (and not just the rich part).
And can I just say “eeeww”? I didn’t like s’mores to begin with. Adding pop rocks doesn’t make it better.
I’m finally catching up with blogs et al that I want to read. The rest I have declared bankruptcy and started over. Thanks for some good reading as always. Feel better. Rest.
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