Fusenews: Running round the barnyard, falling in and out of love

It’s chicken-with-your-head-cut-off week, folks!  But I think I’ve enough spare moments in my day to share with you some very quick tidbits of things I’ve found.  In brief (and I do mean brief)!

• Next week we’re going to see the kick-off of the fantabulous Winter Blog Blast Tour.  For the full schedule, head on over to Chasing Ray.  I am incredibly excited.  You’re going to see an interview here unlike any interview I’ve conducted before.

• Who are the best author tweeters?  This list compiles 100 of them. Thanks to @librariancheryl for the link.

• I’ve been looking for a new good YA/children’s literature blog of gay lit.  Now I think I’ve found one.  Silverrod’s Rainbow Book Reviews for Children and Young Adults . 

• Chris Barton, author of this year’s awesome Day-Glo Brothers, has just lived The American Dream.  He visited a Day-Glo factory.  That is the definition of The American Dream as I see it, anyway.

• Speaking of non-fiction, Marc Tyler Nobleman (Boys of Steel) has a whole range of cool topics on his blog.  There’s biography vs. storyography (i.e. focusing on a pivotal incident in a life rather than a whole life) and biography vs. pathography (i.e. focusing on the negative aspects of a life).  For those of you reviewing picture book biographies and those of you writing them, I consider this your required reading for the day.  Nobleman brings up issues that a lot of folks rarely consider.  Great great stuff.

• I am a one-woman Yuyi Morales fan club band.  And this is her interview at Seven Impossible Things.  Brilliant!

Over in Northhampton, the Richard Michelson Gallery has a fantastic show going on and you can see a bit of it online. 

• This is both fascinating and frightening.  From Cynopsis Kids:

The 2009 Oscar race gears up with news from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that 20 movies have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category. Under the rules for this category, a maximum of 5 features can be nominated in a year where there are at least 16 eligible movies.  Speaking of eligibility, some of the movies (*) have not yet had their required LA qualifying run.  No doubt they will.  Nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, 2010. The 20 submitted animated features are:

• Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel*

• Astro Boy

• Battle for Terra

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

• Coraline

• Disney’s A Christmas Carol

• The Dolphin  Story of a Dreamer*

• Fantastic Mr. Fox*

• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

• Mary and Max

• The Missing Lynx

• Monsters vs. Aliens

• 9

• Planet 51*

• Ponyo

• The Princess and the Frog*

• The Secret of Kells*

• Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure

• A Town Called Panic*

• Up

Many of you know that illustrator Sophie Blackall has a lot of fun creating original illustrations out of the Missed Connections sections of newspapers and online publications.  She even sells them.  So, if you want to know what I want for Christmas this year, I want this print.  It mentions NYPL!  Here’s what it says in case you can’t read it:

"Monday, November 2nd, 2009
You left your coat here last winter – w4w
… or rather, you let me wear it home.
I found fun dip in one pocket and your NYPL card in the other.
It’s going to keep me deliciously warm this winter as I rack up mountains of overdue fines."
Thanks to Alison Morris for the link!

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