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Magpie Monday on Wednesday
Here are some more amuse-bouches to help you over the Wednesday hump. ◊ VIEWERS’ PARADISE. A trailer for a live-action Gatchaman? I am so there. The trailer’s in Japanese, but it features pretty everything you’d expect to see in a … Continue reading →
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Tagged "Geology" design by Tim Babb, Adam Egypt Mortimer, Angela Still, Apollo 100, bacon, Ballistic (comic), Big Bad Wolves (film trailer), blender of oblivion, Blue Sky Candy, Bodyform, Breaking Bad, Buffalo Bill, cake, Cakecrumbs, Carisa's Cakes, cemeteries, Darick Robertson, David Malki!, Death Comes to Pemberley, Despicable Me 2, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Earth Wind and Fire, Elisa Strauss, Erin Underwood, Feminist Makeup Tutorial, film trailers, Gabriel Rodriguez, Garçon Garçon, Gatchaman, George Foreman grill, Glenn Danzig, Green Keepers, grilled peaches, Harry Potter, Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever, Henry Rollins, Holland, India, interoffice birthday cards, Isaac Hayes, Jake Wyatt, James Bond, Jane Austen, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Joe Hill, John McKeever, Josh Bayer, Justice Society of America, Katee Sackhoff, Khol?, Kristen Wiig, Little Cake Wishes, Locke & Key, Lord Shiva, Maki Naro, Mamrie Hart, Mark Rudolph, Melanie, Meryl Streep, movie fights, Necropolis (webcomic), ochopika, parodies, Pasty Affair, Pride and Prejudice, red velvet cupcakes, red velvet trifle, rhubarb oatmeal, Riddick, Rishikesh, River Ganges, Robert Jones, Samesies (short film), satire, Shaft (song), Shirt.Woot!, Star Trek insignia cookies, Straitened Circumstances, Strip Search, Super Mario Bros., Super Punch, The Avengers, The Silence of the Lambs, The Super Team Family Blog, Threadcakes, Threadless, Thug Kitchen, Tom Gauld, Tom Neely, Uttarakhand, Vegan Black Metal Chef, vegan lasagna, Wonder Woman, Wondermark, xkcd, zombie ramen
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Magpie Monday
Here’s what shiny that caught my eye last week: ♦ The Art of Spring and Mythic March. Spring officially hit the calendars last week, but I think many people would consider that idea a bit ludicrous, given how cold it’s … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Softer World, Aaron Lopresti, Absolutely Fabulous, action figures, Allen Ginsberg, Andrei Bressan, Andrew Belanger, Annabel de Vetten, Anne of Cleves Gables, Ariadne and the Science, Arts & Crafts Movement, Before and Afterlives, Best American Short Stories, Birds of Prey, book shel, book tower, bookcases, Bookshelf Porn, bread, Brian Azzarello, Cadbury Creme Eggs, caffeine, cake, Cameron Cook, camouflage wallpaper portraits, Carnivale, Caroline Whitney, Cathy Day, Catty-Corner Cottage, CDTcrew, Cecelia Paredes, chicken coops, chickens, chocolate bunnies, Christopher Barzak, Christy Marx, Chuck Wendig, Cliff Chiang, Cloak, comics, creative blocks, CultureMass, Daniel Dye, David Malki!, David Mruz, Dean Bakopoulos, death and dying, dogs, Domythic Bliss, Down to a Sunless Sea by Neil Gaiman, Downton Abbey, Downton Zombey, Dr. Beverly Crusher, dream sequences, Easter basket, eggs, Elisabeth Moss, Emily Horne, Ensemble Studio Theatre of Los Angeles, Erin Morgenstern, Evan Dicken, flax-golden tales, frogs, Furious by Jill Wolfson, Galactus, Gates McFadden, gay marriage, Gods and Monsters: Unclean Spirits by Chuck Wendig, Goran Sudzuka, Grant Snider, Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Harvard University, Hebridean sheep, Hellboy, Hellhound by Cynthia Rodgers and Amanda Rodgers, Hummingbird (film), InByTheEye, Irene Gallo, J.C. Leyendecker, James Patrick Kelly, Jane Campion, Jason Statham, Jimmy Smith Has a Dinosaur by Gregg Chamberlain, Joe Hill, Joey Comeau, John Updike, Juan Santapau, Junot Díaz, Justin Timberlake, Kate Beaton, Kevin St. Jarre, Kickstarter, Lesléa Newman, Lethe Press, Linger by Ken Liu, Lisa Stock, Locke & Key, London, Lynne Ramsay, Marc Andreyko, Mark Abouzeid, Michael Cisco, Molly Crabapple, Mothtales, Mythic March, Neighbours by Rob Butler, Nervous Tales by Carlos Díaz Dufoo, New Yorker, Peeps, Peter Damien, Petey Rojas, photographic memory, Pop Chart Lab, Pop Rocks, Pre-Raphaelites, productivity, Protector by CJ Cherryh, Pythian Games by Tom Doyle, Queen Latifah, Rachelle Gardner, Renaissance portraits as realistic photos, Riddick, Robin Thicke, Roderick Constance, Romano Molenaar, Scooby-Doo, SDPHOTO, sitcoms, snails (telepathic), snooze button, Star Trek: The Next Generation, starlings (murmations), Strange Tides by Erin Morgenstern, Stung by Bethany Wiggins, Subject AT-171 by Melissa Mead, Suit & Tie, Super Punch, Sword of Sorcery, synesthesia, telegraph, Terry Barr, Terry Pratchett, That Mitchell and Webb Look, The Beatles, The Beautiful Necessity, The Complete Lockpick Pornography, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec, The Grail of the Summer Stars by Freda Warrington, The Kindly Ones, The League of Gentlemen, The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu, The Office, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Sandman, The Secret Knots, The Strange World of Martin Kardec, The Titular Hero by M.K. Reed and Jonathan Hill, The Washington Post, The World of the End by Ofir Touché Gafla, The Young Ones, TheBird-TheBee, Thomas Dempsey, Tim Callahan, Tom Gauld, Tony Akins, Top of the Lake, Vicente Cifuentes, Vin Diesel, Vladimir Nabokov, Warren Ellis, webcomics, Where the Red Fern Grows, whoppers, Wonder Woman, Wondermark, writing schedule, xkcd, You Know What You Have to Do by Bonnie Shimko, Zachary Jernigan, zombies
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Magpie Monday
Here’s what shiny that caught my eye last week: ♦ A Month of Letters. In just a few days, February will close and the 2013 Month of Letters Challenge will end. I’ve been very good, mailing something every day the … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Cactus Garden by Jo Bannister, A Calendar of Tales, A Hairy Predicament by Melissa Mead, A Scandal in Belgravia, A Softer World, Aaron Hamburger, Adam Mills, Adam Rifkin, aircraft carriers (ice), Alyson Macdonald, Amazon, Angela Taratuta, anime, Apartment Therapy, aria, astonomy, Astro Boy, Babylon 5, bananas, Barton Fink, Ben Frost, BlackBerry, blogging, book shelves, book stairs, bookcases, Caitlín R. Kiernan, cake, Cameron Cook, Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau), Cathy Day, Chet Phillips, China Miéville, Chris Claremont, Chris Turner, Chuck Wendig, cinematography, corn pops, crows, cupcakes, Daily Science Fiction, Dan May, Darren Di Lieto, David Malki!, David Silverman, Diva Plavalaguna, Doctor Light (Kimiyo Hoshi), Doctor Strange, download wristbands, Elizabeth Hand, Elizabeth Spann Craig, entomology, Erin Underwood, Ernest Hemingway, Europa (moon), Fables and Reflections, Facebook, fail better, false memories, female gaze, Fiddleblack, Firefly, Five Minutes by Conor Powers-Smith, flax-golden tales, For the People by Ronald D. Ferguson, Francesca Ramos, fruit flies, Gabriel Rodriguez, Garry Milne, ghosts, Grant Snider, Hannah Strom-Martin, Hans Zimmer, Helen Friel, Helsinki Bus Station Theory, Hideous Interview with Brief Man by Nick Mamatas, how to recognize insane people (1883), Ian Withrow, In Search Of and Others, Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart, Jason Howard, Jess Deacon, Jo Walton, John Yeoman, Jupiter (planet), Leeloo, Linus, Literary Citizenship, Locke & Key, Ludovico Einaudi, Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare", Mail Me Art, mandala, Mangalores, Maps by Beth Cato, Mathias Malzieu, Midnight Blue-Light Special by Seanan McGuire, Nancy Fouts, Nazis, Neil Gaiman, Nick Loven, Nielsen ratings, No Return, oncology, parasitology, Paris, Paul Kirsch, Peanuts, Photon (Monica Rambeau), physics, Pink Bunny, platform (authors), psychology, Rachelle Gardner, red velvet cake, Remembrance Is Something Like a House by Will Ludwigsen, Revolution (Life Cycle of a Drop of Water), Roger Deakens, Scatterlands, Serenity, Shane Koyczan, Sherlock, Snow, snowflakes, socialist reading, SoundCloud, Stonecoast MFA, Sylvia Linsteadt, Terri Windling-Gayton, That's Nerdalicious, The Afrika Reich by Guy Saville, The Art of Wishing by Lindsay Ribar, The Fifth Element, The Film Doctor, The Gray Fox Epistles, The Little Chimp Society, The Month of Letters Challenge, The Needs of Hollow Men by K.A. Rundell, The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett, The Sandman, The Shape Stealer by Lee Carroll, The Simpsons, The Super Team Family Blog, The Universe, The Water that Falls on You from Nowhere by John Chu, Three Small Deaths on the Back Gate by Erin Morgenstern, Tim Callahan, To This Day Project, Tom Gauld, Toni Morrison, Tor.com, tumblr, Tunes for a Monday Morning, Warren Ellis, Will Ludwigsen, Winston Churchill, Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins, Wonder Woman, Wondermark, word count (novels), Written in Red by Anne Bishop, xkcd, Young Avengers, Zachary Jernigan, Zatanna
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Belgian artist Stéphane Halleux creates wonderful, whimsical sculptures, vaguely Steampunkish in design. He started working first in animation, but now creates his sculptures full time. If you speak French, … Continue reading →
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Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alan Moore, Aliette de Bodard, AlphaBooks, Andrew Neal, Angel, Aniron, Ansa and the Lost Thing by Sophie Wereley, Be Happy for No Reason by Erin Morgenstern, bebionic v3, Ben Towle, Better Than Visiting Sunnydale, Black King, Bound Man by Mary Robinette Kowal, Brad Pitt, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Limerick Episode Guide, Cameron Cook, card catalogs, Carl Sagan, Carl Warner, Cat Mihos, Chuck Wendig, Cosmos, cuckoos, Cullen Bunn, Daily Science Fiction, Dark Horse, Deathbird, deceptive dust covers, Did Someone Say Hellmouth?, Doc Savage, Doctor Strange, Doheny Library (USC), Dr. Light, Edward & Amelia vs The Vampire King, Elizabeth Hand, Enya, fairy-wrens, film trailers, finding time to write, first editions (books), flax-golden tales, foodscapes, Grant Snider, Guillermo del Toro, Hamlet, Hannah Jarrett, Hawkman, Henry James, Idris Elba, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino, James Bond, Jimmy's End, Joe Queenan, John Lingan, Just Today by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Justice League Dark, Kevin St. Jarre, Leah Palmer Preiss, Letters of Note, Lightspeed, Locke & Key, London Falling by Paul Cornell, macaroni and cheese, Marnie Dresser, Martha Stewart, Matt Kaplan, Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters, Michael Cunningham, Michael Dirda, Mireille Enos, Misty Knight, Mitch Jenkins, Monsieur Hublot, Mumford and Sons, My Mother's Shadow by Henry Lu, myths about science, Neil Gaiman, Nigel Ackland, Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu, parthenogenesis, Perdido Street Station, polar bears, President Barack Obama, prosthetics, Rachelle Gardner, Red at the End of the World by Lynda E. Rucker, Richard Symons, Roderick Constance, Russell Hinson, Sam Wolk, sculpture, Searching for Slave Leia by Sandra McDonald, Seth Abramson, solar system (photographs), Song of the Vikings by Nancy Marie Brown, spices, Steampunk, Stéphane Halleux, Swamp Thing, talent and discipline, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Teaching in the Margins, teaching writing, teapots, The Fearless Defenders, The Hellboy Timeline, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean, The Super Team Family Blog, The Tides by Ken Liu, Theodora Goss, Tom Gauld, Tor.com, Valkyrie, Virginia Woolf, Waffle Meringue Productions, Warren Ellis, Where the Wonder Women Are, Wild Things by Alyx Dellamonica, wildlife photography, Will Ludwigsen, Will Sliney, William Hodge, William James, winter storms, Wired.com, Wonder Woman, World War Z, Yagharek, Yorick
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Where can I get a plush Sleipnir? Alas, it’s one of a kind, made by Plankton Art Company for a friend’s baby. Found via the incomparable Super Punch (man, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ann VanderMeer, Christian Jackson, Gabriel Rodriguez, Hansel & Gretel, Joe Hill, Little Red Riding Hood, Locke & Key, Mary Poppins, Organization, Sleipnir, Super Punch, SurLaLune Fairy Tales, The Daily Superpower, The Pied Piper, Twin Peaks, Versification, Weird Tales
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