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Magpie Monday

Posted on 25 March 2013 by Robert

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 →

Posted in Magpie Monday | 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 | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 4 February 2013 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye last week: ♥ Awesome Art. One of the things I love about the interwebs is how many new artists I discover during my reading and how I can keep up with … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged alien abductions, Angela Still, anxiety, Ash Ketchum, astronomy, Atlantis, bandwidth, Bates Motel, Ben Yagoda, BOB, book chairs, book spines, Booklife Now, Bookshelf Porn, bookstores (film), C-3PO, cancer death rate, Captain America, Carl Sagan, Charlie Brown, Charlie Jane Anders, Chi-kin Kwok, Chuck Wendig, Daily Science Fiction, Daredevil, David Lynch, Dinosaurs on Holiday by Erin Morgenstern, Doctor Strange, dogs, Doug Funnie, Downton Abbey, Draconic Motivation by Donald S. Crankshaw, Dream Country, Ellie Lane, Elvis Bego, Ernest Hemingway, Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger, evolution, Faerie Tale, film trailers, flax-golden tales, Four Great Classical Chinese Novels, Full Moon Silhouettes, Game of Thrones, Game of Thrones (theme song), Grant Snider, Harry Potter, Helen Lowe, Hellboy, Henry Cavill, home libraries (design), Ilai, impact), In Search Of and Others, info dumps, Inland Empire, Isaac Cates, Jeremy Saunders, Jim Steranko, John Cassaday, John Kenn Mortensen, Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, Justice Society of America, K. Tempest Bradford, Kickstarter, King Tut, Krang, Langston Hughes, Link (Legend of Zelda), Magic & Good Madness: A Neil Gaiman Reread, Margot Tenenbaum, Mark Gee, Mashup by Floris M. Kleijne, Matthew J.X. Malady, Mickey Mouse, Mike Mitchel, Mike Wenthe, modifiers, Monkey God's Journey to the West, moonrise, movie posters, Nany Giardini, Ned Flanders, Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere, New Zealand, Nikolai Gogol, Oompa Loompa, owls, passports, Patti Smith, Pee-Wee Herman, photography, Planetary, redundancy, Sagar Jethani, Satisfactory Comics, Sesame Street, Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente, six-word story, Spock, Spongebob Squarepants, standalone fantasy novels, Star Trek into Darkness, Steel, Super-Skrull, Superman, Superman Family, synesthesia, synesthetes, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, the Hulk, the Joker, The Mists of Avalon, The Month of Letters Challenge, The Nose by Nikolai Gogol, The Oak Island Money Pit, The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol, The Postcard Story, The Sandman, The Super Team Family Blog, the Tin Man, The X-Files, Thor, Three Kisses: A Royal Breakfast by Henry Szabranski, Three Kisses: Defenders of the Crystal Casket by Henry Szabranski, Three Kisses: The Mirror of Reason by Henry Szabranski, tidal locking, Tim Callahan, time-management triforce (payment, Tom Gauld, Tor.com, Traci Griffin, Twin Peaks, Upside Downton Abbey, vampires, Virginia Woolf, Walter Sobchak, Warren Ellis, Weird Fiction Review, Where the Wild Things Are, Will Ludwigsen, Without a Summer by Mary Robinette Kowal, wolves, Wonder Woman, xkcd, You've Got Mail | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 26 November 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ Art Nouveau portraits. Artist kishokahime created a series of Art Nouveau portraits of fantasy heroines from the 1980s (film and animation). I do prefer my Art Nouveau a little more ornate, … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged akinetopsia, ambient music, Anastasia, animation, Art Nouveau (portraits), astronomy, Bigby Wolf, Bill Willingham, Billy Nunez, Black Lady (Sailor Moon), book cover art, Book Mania!, Bryan Singer, Christina Oppold, Chuck Wendig, Cinder, Craig Hamilton, Crysta (Fern Gully), Daily Science Fiction, Damien Walter, Daniel Dos Santos, Dave Hensley, David Malki!, death of film, Derek Kirk Kim, Dr Atmo, Edward & Amelia vs The Vampire King, etymology, Fables, failing vs. quitting, FAX +49-69/450464, film trailers, first editions (books), flax-golden tales, frogs, frost flowers, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Grant Snider, Guillermo del Toro, Hawkeye, home libraries (design), I Have Your Heart, intelligence supplements, interviews, io9, Irvine Welsh, Isles of the Sun by Margo Lanagan, Jack the Giant Slayer, jerks (attraction to), Jim Batt, Jim Fern, Joe Daly, John Kenn Mortensen, Joss Whedon, Judd Apatow, Juls Chong, Katherine Salant, Kickstarter, Kim Boekbinder, kishokahime, Leakey’s Second Hand Bookshop, Lili (Legend), linguistics, London, lunar phases, Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice), Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds by Mike Allen, Malta (The Sea Prince and the Fire Child), Mark Farmer, Molly Crabapple, Neil Patrick Harris, Neil's Puppet Dreams, Night Shade Books, No Return, Odette (The Swan Princess), Pete Namlook, Pi vs. Pie, Porno, Ray Snyder, Right Here by David Steffen, Robbie Trevino, Russell Hinson, Sarah (Labyrinth), Scarlet, science fiction (history), seals, self-surgery, short films, siblings, Skagboys, Slow by Erin Morgenstern, Sorsha (Willow), Speed of Love by Deborah Walker, stop-motion animation, Strange Horizons, Susan J. Morris, Tansy Rayner Roberts, The Childlike Empress (The Neverending Story), The Lady Amalthea (The Last Unicorn), The Milky Way, The Most Important Man in the Universe by Joseph Zieja, The Nerdist, The Queen's Army by Marissa Meyer, The Simpsons, The Stone Badger by Misha Nogha, The Trap by Steven Kahn, The Wizard of Oz, This Is Your Problem, Thumbelina, Tom Gauld, Tor.com, Trainspotting, Tune: Vanishing Point, Weird Fiction Review, Where the Wonder Women Are, Wondermark, Zachary Jernigan | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 13 August 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ For those of you who dream of singing in the rain or in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, or who dream of multiple covers of Rhianna‘s “Umbrella” (by the by, I love … Continue reading →

Posted in Magpie Monday | Tagged A Distant Soil, Agatha Harkness, All Time Low, AlphaBooks, amnesia, Andrew Neal, anime, Annie Bellet, Anthony Hope Smith, Armless Maiden, Armless Maidens of the American West, Barcelona, basilisk, Ben Towle, Better Than Sunnydale, book-spine poetry, Bram Stoker, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Chris Berens, Christina Hendricks, Chuck Wendig, Colleen Doran, creativity, crime rate, cryptids, cryptozoology, Daily Science Fiction, Damien Walters Grintalis, daydreaming, Dear Editor Enclosed Please Find My Story about Your Unfortunate Demise, dioramas, Dracula, Ekaterina Fawl, ElfQuest, fan fiction/fan art, fingernails, Genevieve Valentine, Glenn Barr, Greer Gilman, Harry Potter, Hogwarts fashion, home libraries (organization), Hush, Ice, immortality, Innocence Rearranged, interviews, J.K. Rowling, Jean Grey, Jeff VanderMeer, Kelly Williams, Kickstarter, La memoire douloureuse (The Painful Memory), Lady of the Cloth, landscape, literary devices in science fiction, Lord Voldemort, Luc Reid, Lucy Westenra, Luna Lovegood, Mad Men, Mandy Moore, manga, Marc Giai-Miniet, Mary Poppins, Matthew Weiner, motif, Museum of Modern Art MOMA, Oscar Wilde, Patricia Almeida, psychopath, publishing, pupil dilation, Rhianna, Sailor Moon, self-publishing, sexuality, Sherlock Holmes, sociopath, Stephen Quay, Tansy Rayner Roberts, The Curious Case of Version 47.13, The Gentlemen, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Other Woman, The Quay Brothers, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Thomas Jonte, Thoughts of Tethys, Timothy Quay, To Be Undone By Such Small Things, Tokyo's Tokyo, transition as metaphor, Umbrella, Where the Wonder Women Are, wizarding gene | Comments Off

Magpie Monday

Posted on 6 August 2012 by Robert

Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently, for this my fiftieth Magpie Monday post: ♦ This image by Jeremy Dower makes me happy. Based in Melbourne, Dower uses Photoshop to create his digital 2D paintings, and his … Continue reading →

Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday | Tagged 'Salem's Lot, A Sketch of the Past, Adam Leipzig, Alexandra Seidel, Aliette de Bodard, AlphaBooks, aMAZEme, Andrew Neal, Annalee Newitz, Aqueduct Press, Batgirl, Batwoman, Ben Towle, Best Books for Writers, Birds and Birthdays, Blue Moon, blurbs, book promotion, card illusions, Catherynne M. Valente, Catwoman, Chris Claremont, Christopher Barzak, Chuck Wendig, Data Never Sleeps (infographic), Dave McKean, David Mohan, Days of Future Past, Deathless, Doctor Strange, Domo, Dorothea Tanning, Douglas Coupland, Dr. Doom, formatting, genre, Gina Rosati, gravity hills, Gualter Pupo, Huntress, immortality, Jabberwocky, Jeremy Dower, John Byrne, José Luis Borges, Just MyType, Kaa, Kendall Evans, Kickstarter, Kinbote, Koschei the Deathless, Krissy Brady, Kurt Barlow, Leah Palmer Preiss, Lee Pegler, Leonora Carrington, Madame Xanadu, Marcos Saboya, Mary Marvel, Marya Morevna, Mike Scott, Mr. Fox, Mur Lafferty, nasal hallucinations, Neil Gaiman, Nicole M. Taylor, Night Shade Books, No Return, Nora Ephron, Pale Fire, Paul Tobin, Penelope Trunk, Poets & Writers, Queen, Rachel Summers, Remedios Varo, Robin, Rudyard Kipling, Samantha Henderson, Sentinels, Simon Garfield, Smoke and Mirrors, Stephen King, Subterranean Press, Superman, Superman vs. Wonder Woman, Tansy Rayner Roberts, The Ancient One, the art of the remake, The Cairn in Slater Woods, The Jungle Book, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition, The Periodic Table of Typefaces, The Phantom Stranger, The Super Team Family Blog, The White Road, Thomas Allen, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Where the Wonder Women Are, Who Wants to Live Forever, Wonder Woman, writing (query letters), X-Men, X-Men: First Class, Zachary Jernigan | 3 Comments

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