• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Scented throw pillows from Dairy Queen.
• Ketchup-stained clothes from Heinz.
• Pumpkin spice graham Goldfish.
• “10 recipes that defined the 1960s“.
• “World’s littlest skyscraper“.
• “Hole in the Rock”. Yup. Sure is.
• Town under a rock.
• A very nice “cabin”.
• Just a nice one.
• Another castle house.
• Flashback!
• It’s not often you see a fully shingled spaceship.
• Purpose unclear.
• Not sure what the heck the railing is for.
• I want it to be level, darn it.
• Ok, I’m not seeing the rooftop decks. I see two back yards.
• “Phone Home“.
• The round windows are cool, yet disconcerting from outside.
• WHY?!
• I hope this is just a temporary situation.
• YIKES.
• Extreme YIKES.
• It’s a mystery!
• Confusing.
• Definitely don’t leave the seat up.
• NO.
• O.O

Sibling standoff!

Harry glamour shot! (He is just ridiculously shiny.)

Polly trying to take a selfie. 😉

• New releases: AAR (romance), Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more!
• A ficlet about the Bone Beach.
• On dragons in modern times.
• Lovely bookshop in the UK.
• The history behind “exit, pursued by a bear”.
• “If George RR Martin and Tolkien fought with sword and shield, who would win?“
• “What would Emily Dickinson do?“
• What if aliens kidnapped some humans for a zoo?
• Green is an inauspicious sky color.
• “Glass is actually a liquid”.
• TRUTH.
• On streets in Europe.
• On movies released in 1997.
• NASA retro concept art.
• I have walked by this property numerous times on my way to and from the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and have always wondered about it.
• Those spiky clocks sent me on a 70s flashback.
• It has rocks and trees.
• Round boat house.
• Bridge house.
• “Sleeve House”.
• Dome home.
• “Spite castle”.
• The interior of this “castle house” is very disappointing.
• Huh.
• Not the place to live if you require darkness to sleep.
• It has a slide.
• Comes with a butler [statue].
• Pool in the living room.
• Buy your own frontier town.
• Buy a home business in Alaska.
• Odd property in Alaska.
• Huh.
• Cabin of death.
• Too much taxidermy.
• So. Many. Questions.
• What a strange choice.
• Rent a spaceship home.
• A “Dead and Breakfast”.
• Can’t be unseen.
• I hate it.
• Compliantly confusing.
• “Shtairs”.
• The first one does look very sharp.
• Plain old confusing.
• Hmm.
• I guess it sort of has a little bit of railing.
• Yikes.
• I can definitely picture falling down those stairs and then going through the glass door at the bottom. 🙁

Mayhem, annoyed by Harry’s existence.

Polly with a sparkleball!

Polly and Harry on a kitty hammock.

No linkity next week! I won’t be available during my linkity making time.

• New releases: Tor.com (YA SFF, horror & genre benders, scifi, fantasy)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
• Great photo of Martha Wells.
• Untitled Goose Game in Ankh-Morpork.
• Is LotR really just one of THOSE recipe blogs?
• Embroidered LotR map.
• You could buy the Bennett house from the 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice.
• This visualization from NASA really makes climate change apparent.
• New map from the US Drought Monitor.
• Truly shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone about the US teacher shortage.
• On snapping turtles.
• What one million mosquitoes look like.
• A fascinating discussion of mountains.
• A tale of scientific hubris.
• Repurposed Pizza Hut as a metaphor for being trans.
• How do you even make a live-action Pac-Man movie?!?
• “How to befriend crows and turn them against your enemies“.
• Apparently I missed S’More flavored Ritz Bits in the 1990s. Unless they make ’em gluten-free, I’ll just never know.
• That’s very clever, but it looks like it has to stay with the place, doesn’t it?
• Not my style, but very nice.
• And another.
• Another nice one.
• That’s no cottage!
• I’d always be wondering if I left one of the zillion doors unlocked.
• Definitely don’t like the random stones jutting out of the walls.
• It doesn’t have a kitchen.
• Why is there a bathtub in the living room?
• I would absolutely faceplant into that tree on the regular.
• What lucky kitties!
• Interesting with quirks.
• They kept the confessionals.
• Surprise!
• Well.
• That kitchen nook seems out of place.
• Boring bank conversion.
• “Mansion” implies things that this place doesn’t have.
• CAN’T BE UNSEEN.
• Yikes.
• Not the secret I expect from a kitchen table.
• Hmm.
• HMM.
• Needs to be a LITTLE more space between the front door and the stairs.
• NO.
• …Well, at least there’s a railing?!
• Initially funny, but I would hate seeing it every day.
• Creepy ceramics.
• “Why is this street so chaotic???“
• “Animal crackers for zoologists“.

“WHAT NOW?!” -Harry and Polly

Probably wondering if I’m taking an unflattering photo of them…

Harry watching a BIRD.

Polly chittering at a bird.

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Aragorn and PTSD.
• Tumblr book club ideas (based on the wildly successful Dracula Daily).
• “Letters to Friends”, a very short silent film from Janet Hill Studio.
• On seahorses.
• “25 rare and overlooked images from the famed Apollo 11 mission”.
• *blink blink*
• Learn about the Great Dying, “the worst mass extinction of all time”.
• “No one wants to work anymore.“
• LEGO releases a set based on The Office.
• Mindboggling photo of a lightning strike.
• Eerily gorgeous.
• It’s way too dark for my taste, but it is lovely.
• Another lovely one from San Francisco.
• Amazing before and after photos.
• A bargain, but sort of creepy.
• Apparently these people don’t believe in comfortable chairs.
• Motorcycles as decorative elements.
• House or maze?
• Mansion trailer. The wood looks like it has the sort of finish that gets sticky in the heat.
• All I can think of is how top heavy it is.
• Wut.
• Taxidermy hell.
• Mirrored kitchen, anyone?
• Stay in the world’s biggest bottle.
• Or stay in a submarine or rescue helicopter.
• A fireplace is a special kind of stairs danger.
• Nononononononono.
• Hearse turned into an ice cream truck.
• Silliness.

Siblings!

Awwww.

Polly laughing at her own joke.

• New releases: Tor.com (YA SFF & horror)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• NK Jemisin about why sometimes you need to be “uncivilized” about racism.
• Ficlet about being on year 399 of a 400-year sentence.
• Discworld book nook.
• Some good news about southern fin whales.
• See the remains of the Chicxulub asteroid!
• DOOM can run DOOM?
• Whoopsy.
• “For those who…love to see subject experts going absolutely apeshit about fake content farm video ‘hacks'”.
• The Onion making a point.
• This is kind of soothing to watch.
• Fancy Kitty also looks gigantic due to surroundings.
• Tower castle.
• Round.
• Victorian with lighthouse.
• Another lighthouse.
• The home of a wood sculptor.
• This mostly works.
• I like that blue, just not on the ceiling.
• The whole thing is just ever so slightly too much all the time.
• That kitchen.
• I like black, but I wouldn’t want to have black walls.
• Secret underground bar.
• Warning for creepy dolls.
• :O
• Home renovation fail.
• Another missile silo.
• Um, yikes?
• I’ve decided I’m not a fan of spiral stairs.
• Hopefully it’s an optical illusion and those cables aren’t as low as they look.
• Say no to “funky” stairs.
• YIKES.
• Hug the wall and wish desperately for a railing.
• Kitchen tables should not be part of stairs.
• Mansplaining at its most oblivious.

Polly is not pleased Harry has infringed on her space.

“Harry STOP!” -Polly, apparently

• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more.
• Linkity from BookWyrm Knits.
• And a quotes post from BookWyrm Knits.
• “Mary Oliver in popular culture“.
• Lord of the Rings is “sort of……. post-apocalyptic”.
• Short fic about a superhero job placement agency.
• “The dangers of petting things in space“.
• A nice simple rundown of this week in UK politics.
• You tell him, Lake Superior.
• More from Lake Superior.
• The guy who paints Chase Banks in flames has moved on to a new subject.
• The amount of damage soccer-ball sized hail would do.
• “[Minimalism] is a troubling phenomenon because of what [it] represents: a lack of detail.“
• The advantage of being agender!
• An interesting look at 1980s nostalgia.
• Philosophy.
• Moose!
• That sure took a lot of pebbles.
• Toast value scale.
• What a lovely place to escape to.
• So fancy!
• Mid-century flashback.
• Mostly white ceilings – huzzah!
• That’s a lot of color.
• It IS very white – except for some of the bathrooms.
• Some very dramatic wallpaper and carpet.
• “Barbie’s Bohemian Bed-Stuy Dreamhouse“.
• I definitely don’t enjoy period accurate wallpaper.
• Just say no to terrazzo bathrooms.
• It takes a second look to really appreciate the fail here.
• Medieval-themed basement.
• WTF wallpaper.
• He has a lot of collections.
• If you’re looking for a quirky family compound…
• What an oddly shaped house.
• Ditto.
• Themed bedrooms.
• HORROR SHOW.
• ABSOLUTELY NOT.
• Yikes.
• How do those stairs even work?
• I guess these are a little better than the previous at least.
• This also needs a second look.
• At least there’s a railing?
• Wheelchair ramp extreme fail. Emphasis on extreme.
• “The Last Supper” painted on a Saltine. Come on, you know you want to make the obvious joke here!
• “Tumblr uniting to drag Achilles“.
• “Honest board game titles“.

Harry being a goofball.

Polly telling me something.

• New releases: AAR (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• BookWyrm Knits shares links to short favorite free science fiction and fantasy stories.
• Nerf’s new mascot is Very Creepy.
• Strawberry cobbler.
• Mindboggling embroidery.
• Chapel converted into a houseboat.
• Another one from Minneapolis, the Donaldson Mansion. You may or may not remember the Donaldson’s department stores.
• It IS a fairy tale house, although the corrugated steel thing is odd.
• “You can live in a luxury jail.“
• That fridge, wth.
• 26 bathrooms?!? WHY???
• A Yellow Submarine weekend rental.
• “Hobbit Mansion“.
• House built around an old trolley car.
• Choices were made. Strange choices.
• Absolutely don’t enter that house using the left door.
• I don’t think you can call that “stairs” – it’s a ladder.
• Another weird set of stairs ladder.
• I personally do not equate miniature marshmallows with glamour.
• “Culinary perfume“.
• Um. Good point.

Harry hanging out, being silly.

Polly has mastered the dead bug pose!

Siblings looking outside, focused on very different things.