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Magpie Monday
Ah, the last few days of July, soon to give way to what will possibly be some true dog days of Summer. In light of that, let’s stay indoors and enjoy the treasures brought to us by the interwebs all … Continue reading →
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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
“Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that…. [H]ate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. Also: “This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.” ~David … Continue reading →
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ More sad news last week: iconic author Ray Bradbury died June 5th at the age of 91. The interwebs were ablaze with appreciations, essays, obituaries, reflections and tributes, the … Continue reading →
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Tagged "Who Could That Be at This Hour?", Adam Mills, Alan Rickman, All the Wrong Questions, AlphaBooks, Apex Magazine, Awesome People Reading, Barack Obama, Ben Towle, Beyond Katrina, bisexuality, Blocked, Bonnie Zare, book shelves, bookcases, BookRiot, Cameron Cook, Carmina Burana, Carrie, Catherynne M. Valente, Charlize Theron, Chuck Wendig, Darmok, David Lynch, death, dioramas, Erik Martin, fairy-tale films, film trailers, flashmobs, Flesch-Kinkaid Reading Ease continuum, Flesch-Kinkaid Reading Level, Fragile Things, Game of Thrones, Geoff Ryman, Gregory Benford, Hamish Linklater, horror fiction, Ian Withrow, io9, Jack Zipes, Jeff VanderMeer, John Crowley, John D. Boswell, John W. Doull Bookseller, Junot Díaz, Lego, Leigh Bardugo, Lemony Snicket, libraries, LitReactor, Locus, M.C. Escher, Margaret Atwood, McSweeney's, Memory Palace, metaphors, Mirror Mirror, Mister Rogers, Mr. Peabody, Natasha Trethewey, Neil Gaiman, Nick Mamatas, Once Upon a Blog, Once Upon a Time, Paradoxymoron, Patrick Hughes, PBS, photography (ghost mother), Pittsburgh, Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), readability-index calculator, Sam Wolk, SF Signal, Shadow and Bone, Sherman, Slinkachu, Snow White and the Huntsman, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Wars, Stephen King, Thailand, The Adventures of Rocky and Bulwinkle, The Beat, The Garden of Your Mind, The Hanging Garden, The Ladies' Deposit, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Old Library Trinity College, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Symphony of Science, The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better than You Normally Do, The Washington Post, The Witch of Duva: A Ravkan Folk Tale, Theodora Goss, There Will Come Soft Rains, Time, Tor.com, U.S. Poet Laureate, Ultra Violet, Underwords, Wang Saen Suk Hell Park, Will Ludwigsen, writers (bad behavior), writers' workshops, xkcd
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