While I was trying to snap a shot of her angry face she kept looking away. I ended with with all these pictures and no good one. boo. I suppose it just makes the good pictures of her more amazing:
Gratuitous cat love
LibriVox
When no one else is around I read aloud to my pets. Though, I have tested the limits of my reading aloud lately, resulting in a long standing sore throat, I am intrigued by LibriVox » Volunteer for LibriVox. I will probably volunteer and get an assignment and read things aloud so that those things might be listened to by people all over the internets. In my voice even.
The Fantastic in Art and Fiction
Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections: The Fantastic in Art and Fiction is a gorgeous and curious assortment of images and illustrated book pages having to do with Demons, Death, Magic, and all things fantastic.
Yes, something like a second hand item from the GReader starred list. Though, it gives me an idea.
bunches of doodles
National Novel Writing Month Spring Writing Marathon
I’ve trumpeted National Novel Writing Month a ton on this here blog. I have enjoyed every year I have participated. Not only have they created an environment of encouragement and commiseration for people who may have never ventured into writing otherwise (my Mother), but they do great things to encourage youth to write as well! We all have stories and NaNoWriMo helps us tell them.
Ok, that was way thoughtful and somber – point is Yay! I don’t have to wait for November to embrace that feeling again. For the first time ever there will be a National Novel Writing Month Spring Writing Marathon on April 13th. Your marathon can be editing, writing fresh, continuing a story, anything. Just pledge what you can, ’cause you want to support the awesome stuff NaNoWriMo does, and then hunker down on the 13th and write write write! I did and will.
Usavich
Another from the GReader starred list. Usavich is a Russian cartoon about rabbits and? I really don’t know. But it’s hilarious and not focused on language, so completely understandable.
I couldn’t stop laughing as I read…
But there is really good content therein. I don’t usually end up in situations where I might be beat up or anything else …now that I think about it – ‘or anything else’ has happened to me. I thought I was just lucky. Ok, so the technique of giving calm but nonsensical responses that Derren Brown describes in Derren Brown’s Guide to overcoming Awkward Situations – Entertainment – ShortList Magazine wouldn’t necessarily also have come in handy when I was being followed around the record store I worked in by a guy who repeatedly told me he liked my shape, and who continued on with other lewd comments and offers to take me home after my shift. That was a long time ago. But, Derren Brown’s advice on other situations is good to have in your head just in case. To sum up: awesome article, and hilarious in its description of the technique.
Girl Bands and the Buffalo Chucks
So, I like things like JEM and the Holograms, and the massively under-appreciated Josie and the Pussycats. There’s something about girl bands battling evil that is too fun not to love. Thus, my own girl band, who may or may not end up fighting evil: The Buffalo Chucks. Right now they are kind of like Josie in an Archie and Jughead crowd scene, but just you wait!
And, in the meantime, check out a webcomic that embodies all that too: Band vs. Band by Kathleen Jacques. You will not be disappointed.
Cat love
Crisco likes the camera, but sometimes gets too close. He was too lazy to investigate this time and I ended up with a cover for Cat Fanciers magazine or something. Isn’t he handsome?
I have tried to keep the cat love to a minimum, maybe in some vain attempt to resist the librarian trend. Seriously, everyone (bold generalized statement) in my library is obsessed with cats. Want a topic to break the ice at a staff party: Cats. But who am I kidding? Why am I resisting?
I have the coolest cats ever!
The Old Reader
Hip hip hooray! My OPML file has finally been uploaded by The Old Reader and it couldn’t be sooner as it is harder and harder to find links to Google Reader on any of those ‘more’ menus. Now that I’ve spent the day with it, I have to tell you I am hella pleased! I wasn’t looking for something vastly different, new and exciting, else I would’ve been looking for something to replace my Google Reader long ago. Nope, I liked how it worked and I accepted the changes over the years that I didn’t like (ex. Google+ replacing the ‘Shared Items’ feed). I liked my shared items. It was like a blog for what I read and if anyone wanted to see the internet as it is filtered through my head then they could subscribe. Well The Old Reader has a shared items feed just like Google Reader used to have. Here is mine.
And, there was this nifty thing on my Home screen that alerted me to possibly dead feeds. This was awesome, and led me to clean out a few more. Sorry, The Old Reader, my OPML could have been smaller.
If I had any complaints it would be that the option to ‘show only unread’ items in the settings menu doesn’t affect how your feeds show up in the navigation on the left. But I can totally deal with that.
I wholeheartedly recommend The Old Reader for any of you Google Reader kids looking for a new world. It took a while for my feeds to import due to heavy migratory traffic, so prepare to twiddle your thumbs, but you’ll get an email when it is done, so there is no wondering.
Morse Code| The Art of Manliness
Alright, so, in light of Google Reader taking a big dive soon, I have shopped around alternative RSS feed aggregators. I have downloaded my OPML file. And now, I am going through my starred items. I don’t know about you but I’ve used Google Reader’s star function as a kind of memory box. I don’t want all those goodies to just disappear, so some of them are going to end up right here. For example: Morse Code: How to Translate and Use it | The Art of Manliness. I’ve always wanted to learn Morse code as much as I mourn how I’ve forgotten the sign language alphabet my friends and I used to message each other with during junior high science class. I may learn it one day and when that day comes, the Morse code article on The Art of Manliness will be invaluable.
More content from the GReader starred list will be coming your way. Are you ready?
FPI – Female Paranormal Investigators
There is a group of fabulous women who investigate hauntings and paranormal occurrences in Florida and beyond. They are: FPI – Female Paranormal Investigators. How do I know they are fabulous? Because one lady is a very good friend of mine, and sometimes I listen in awe and vicarious pleasure to her stories of her jobs with the FPI. Shout out!
Mini Comics Day Triumph
It was touch and go for a while, and I didn’t even come prepared with extra printer ink, but I did it! Five copies of ‘The Secret is Murder.’ I need to figure out what I’m going to do with it – the copies, and where on the Bean I’m going to post the scans. Here’s a little preview to wet your appetites:
this here is an art blog
From another night I didn’t know quite what to draw. My husband said this picture was weird, though I think it tells a story well enough. Think: sometime in a desert/apocalyptic future world where crazy big robot overlords patrol the cities there is a guy at a bar. And he has with him an artifact that has been unknown to the people of this world, and the robots too, for ages. Fire. Thus the robot’s intense interest in the match. Or, maybe, different apocalyptic future, this dude in the bar and his robot buddy are concocting a plan to storm the castle which includes setting something on fire. The dude just happens to be an amazing story teller and the robot is enraptured.
Mini-Comics Day 2013 on March 24th!
I marked my calendar, but I still lost track of time and Mini-Comics Day 2013 is on March 24th!
I don’t know what I’m going to do! I have no earthly idea….wait, I’m having an idea. Maybe I’ll actually be ready for Mini Comics Day. Except, I did not get extra color ink for my printer. Hmmm, have a day to fix that though.