Bookity

• New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), AAR (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches. And more. And even more. Cover snark. And more!
• Linkity from the Pen Addict. And more. And even more.
• How much ebooks cost libraries.
• RBG!
• Wise words from Nora Roberts on work-life balance.
• A micro-SFF story.
• Medieval manuscripts and strange beasts.
• Librarian humor.

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• A perspective on 45’s tax returns. Some salty tweets about them. Some comparison between what 45 paid and what some of the salty tweeters paid…
• BOOM.
• You go, Ilhan!
• “Canon Jesus is way better than fanon Jesus“.
• Cursed fact about the long-eared jerboa.
• Oarfish.
• Louis Armstrong and typewriters.
• Judith Butler “took down transphobic rhetoric with…much skill and intelligence”.
• “Everything is certainly not ok” (on policing in the US).
• “Learn how to swear in 15 languages from Samuel L Jackson“.

Life in These Pandemic Times

• WaPo’s new “wearing a mask” faq.
• Well, they’re not wrong – but you’ll need a mask under that mask.
• Sloths and dolphins.
• Very 2020. VERY 2020.
• Is it even a contender?
• 2020 in photos (tw blood).
• 2020 in photos from around Minneapolis. (No blood!)
• “Using art to give simple information…on COVID-19“.
• “Are you also having the mask dream?” (I’ve had at least one.)

Cookity

• 19 vegan soups.
• 26 easy tofu recipes.
• 40+ squash recipes.
• 30 apple desserts.
• Sweet potato snickerdoodles.
• Black midnight cake.
• Strawberry spinach cake. (via gilajames)

Artsy Crafty

• A “cute but NO” knitting stitch (well, it’s a bit more than a stitch, but…).
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Short film about bickering spaceships.
• Escaping.
• Living with a demon (NOT about Good Omens, strangely).
• Humans and reality bender infestations (NOT a reference to 45, strangely).
• :chewing faster:
• Linkity from BookwyrmKnits.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• “Mark Hamill and Sir Patrick Stewart do a truly surreal commercial“.

Wha…?

• Medieval beekeeper garb.
• What sort of surgery requires that particular shave?!
• Fruit chicken.
• Commodore 64 colored spray paint.
• The Burrito Pop.
• “Yes, you can run DOOM on an electronic pregnancy test…“

LOL

• Spooky cute.
• Feral scientists.
• Chatting live with other shoppers at Michael’s.
• Naturalists and the fae.
• Zoom gothic.
• Screaming Roomba. (colorful language beware)
• IKEA.
• Weird questions.
• Curse the special place!

Teh Cute

• Tapir and stripey baby! Black panther!

Reading Update
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (10th Anniversary Edition) by Michelle Alexander. Very powerful. Very tragic. Completely enraging.
Imaginary Numbers (InCryptid #9) by Seanan McGuire. Well, there IS a bonus novella at the end, but the main story ends in a cliffhanger and the next book isn’t out until late February 2021. Grr.
Temporally Out of Order edited by Joshua Palmatier. I checked it out for the Seanan McGuire short story, but I ended up enjoying nearly all of the stories in this collection.
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Middlegame by Seanan McGuire. Totally sucked me in!
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. WOW. I liked this a lot more than The Night Circus. Still won’t swear that I understood all of it!

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING, MOM???” -Chaos