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Magpie Monday on Thursday: Someone’s in the Kitchen…
Hope you’re hungry—continuing this week of special focused Magpie Monday posts, I’m serving up Someone’s in the Kitchen…! I hope Dinah would be proud!
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Tagged Amanda Sutker, Arrakeen Spice coffee, birdhouses, butterbeer, chocolate truffles, croquembouche, Daniel Parson, Dinah Shore, Dothraki blood pie, Edvard Munch, eggs, Erzebet YellowBoy, food art, Frank Sinatra, French Chef Cookbook, GoodFood, green eggs & ham, hens (ex-commercial), Ida Skivenes, Julia Child, Kaisa Haupt, Martha Stewart, Mike's Amazing Cakes, Miss Cakehead, Nadia Arumugam, Parson Produce, popplers, recipes, red velvet cupcakes, sandwiches, Saturday Market (Greenville SC), Saveur, TARDIS, Tate & Lyle Sugars, The Scream, Thug Kitchen, toast, Tracie Kaska
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Magpie Monday on Wednesday: Tiny Bubbles
Continuing the week of special focused Magpie Monday posts, I offer up today Tiny Bubbles*!
Posted in Magpie Monday
Tagged Alex Katz, Chuck Close, Constantin Brancusi, David Beck, Doktor A, Don Ho, Evol, gardens (miniature), Inka Essenhigh, Jackson Pollock, James Rosenquist, Jasper Johns, Joe Fig, Keith Bougourd, Little People Project, London pothole gardens, Look At This Little Thing!, Malcolm Morley, Museum of Oddities, MVSEVM, Nomi, Ross Bleckner, Roy Lichtenstein, Simone Drucker, Slinkachu, street art, Tara Donovan, Tom Gauld
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Magpie Monday on Tuesday: Domestic Bliss
I’d been hoarding links for some focused posts, and I thought it would be good to get them on the table before they get even colder than they already are. I hope everything still tastes fresh. Today’s focus is Domestic … Continue reading
Posted in Magpie Monday
Tagged Alcazar Castle in Segovia Spain, Andrew McConnell, Art of Manliness, Blaine Fontana, Domestic Hunger, Domythic Bliss, Dornob, Elizabeth Hand, Forms of Nature (light sculpture), gallery walls, Hilden & Diaz, hospital corners, Javier Javisego, Kidrobot Black, L'Institut océanographique, making a bed, micro-apartments, Myra (Turkey), necropolis, secret compartments, secret doors, staircases (spiral), tiny houses, Two Delighted, unheimlich
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Magpie Monday
It’s the return of Magpie Monday! Happy Memorial Day, everyone! ♦ I’ve written about her before, but she bears repeating: photographer/model Ellie Lane (you can follow her on Facebook). I really like her work, whether she’s photographing herself or other … Continue reading
Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday
Tagged About Time (trailer), Adam Mills, Admont Benedictine Monastery library (Austria), Aliens, Allie Brosh, Ang Lee, Arch Nemesis art show, Awesome People Reading, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bibliothèque Saint Geneviève in Paris, bookbinding, BookRiot, Break of Reality, Brian Wood, Captain America: The First Avenger, Chuck Wendig, clichés, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Daft Punk, Daily Science Fiction, DividingME Photography, Edward & Amelia vs The Vampire King, Edward Klister, Electric Velocipede, Elizabeth Hand, Elizabeth Spann Craig, Ellie Lane, Enchanted Conversation, Encounter with My Younger Self at an Intersection of Paths Taken and Not by Erin Morgenstern, Erin Morgenstern, fiction markets, film trailers, Flavorwire, flax-golden tales, Forgiving Dead by Jeff Stehman, Game of Thrones, Georges Seurat, gossip, Hero Complex Gallery, I Speak Coldy of Her Now (2013), Idris Elba, Iron Man, James Patrick Kelly, Janelle Monáe, Jim Moray, Juristische Bibliotek (Munich), Kylie Minogue, Lana Del Rey, Lonely Ghosts in the Machine by Erin Morgenstern, Lord Douglas by Jim Moray, Luther, Michelle Yeoh, Move Under Ground by Nick Mamatas, MyBookTable, National Short Story Month, Nightmare Magazine, Not a Real Dog by Erin Morgenstern, Oliver Coipel, Paradigm Shift by Julie C. Day, PBS: The Movie (PBS Meets The Avengers), Pharrell Williams, poetry gene, Prestidigitation (2013), Puppet Man by Cate Gardner, Radio Free Other, reading nooks, Rey Taira, Richard Tuttle, Riddick (trailer), Russell Hinson, Shall We Gather by Alex Bledsoe, Skin Like Porcelain Death by Daniel José Older, Skottie Young, Skulk, Strange Horizons, Super Bass by Kai Ashante Wilson, Super Best Friends Forever, Teddy Has an Operation, Terri Windling-Gayton, The Avengers, The Bacchae, The Button Man and the Murder Tree by Cherie Priest, The Curious Tale of Mr. Fox by Lissa Sloan, The Entomologist's Three Ballgowns by Brooke Wonders, The Great Gatsby, The Night Circus, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, The Siren by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, The Three Sisters and the Dragon of the North by Laura Beasley, The Troll (A Tale Told Collectively) by Marissa Lingen, The Worm Troll by Sam Alden, The X-Men, Thor, Thor: The Dark World, Timebomb, Tom Gauld, Tor.com, tsundoku, Weird Fiction Review, Zefrank
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Video Friday
Remember on April 1st when I said I would be taking a hiatus from Magpie Mondays until late May but that I would post some interesting bits in the meanwhile? Yeah, that all went down the drain. Not even a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hoffman, Arlet, bookstores, Dan Fryer, Joe Holgate, Owen Hewson, Richard Dadd, short films, The Bakery, The Last Bookshop
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