Magpie Monthly — August 2015
The above image of an Audubon magpie printed on a vintage book page can be found at the FauxKiss Etsy shop. Fire Walk With Me by Bill Domonkos (via) I’m already swooning: Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma...
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“Magpie to the Morning” by Neko Case A post of shiny bits for your ocular jellies’ pleasure, mostly art. Enjoy! Very sad to hear of the death of Yvonne Craig, who played Batgirl on TV and was one of...
View ArticleMagpie Monthly — October 2015
By Introverted Wife; see more of her free All Hallows Read posters at the link Another October, another All Hallows Read! I have a couple of recommendations for you. First up, a novel about witches...
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La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) by Niroot Puttapipat I love this little thief by Niroot Puttapipat. If you like his work (and you should—it’s phenomenal), please check out his beautiful cut-paper...
View ArticleMagpie Monthly — December 2015
A magpie sits in a frost covered tree near Wascana Lake on 14 November 2010. Photo by Troy Fleece / Regina Leader-Post Files Welcome to the final Magpie Monthly of 2015! ◊ Need to spice up your...
View ArticleHappy New Year!
Happy 2016! For all of my readers (all 20 or fewer of you!), I hope the new year brings you much happiness and joy and some strangeness as well. The most popular blog post for 2015, by a large margin,...
View ArticleMagpie Monthly — January 2016
Photo by Mats Kangur “Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.” ~Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary ◊ I love...
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Happy Leap Year! I nerded out today by learning that leap years are also called intercalary years or bissextile years. Did I know that before? Possibly, but let’s move on and synchronize our solar...
View ArticleMagpie Monthly — March 2016
Magpie by Henrik Grönvold, ca 1890 Spring has sprung, or has it? I am sneaking in like spring this year, dropping a mini March Magpie Monthly in your nest with unexpected stealth. ♣ Did you know about...
View ArticleThe Unreal World Too Strangely Near
Yes, it’s certainly been a minute since I posted (ETA: almost three years to the day), so I hope you’ll forgive the long lapse in posting as well as my extreme tardiness in posting this news: my story...
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