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Is this the year of the Mouse or somethin'?

                                                                      

Two Newbery medalists known mostly for their books featuring people...both publish books featuring anthropomorphic mousies within a couple months of each other. Even similar colors on the covers...Hmmm.

(And as of yesterday, it's the year of the Rabbit...just to get all Librarian on myself)

An Open Blog to Gregory Kirschling

Dear, Greg

Follow the link below and watch the trailer (I know you've seen the trailer before) THEN read why the trailer was incredibly misleading & then never, NEVER write a review of a movie by just watching the trailer.

http://www.modernman.com/10-incredibly-misleading-movie-trailers/10/

What the Trailer Promises: A magitastical adventure as two youngsters come of age in a fairyland forest inhabited by all manners of mystical beast!

What the Movie Delivers: Two unhappy kids with overactive imaginations briefly imagine they live in an alternate world. Then one dies.

(The rest of you who missed Kirschling's non-review of a very good interpretation of the Newbery Award winning book can check it out here: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20011869,00.html   It is the textbook example of a professional writer/reviewer tossing off a review without consulting the source material. Jeff Jensen gave the DVD of the same movie in the same magazine a slightly higher grade {though he didn't give the two stars Anna Sophia Robb & Josh Hutcherson the credit they deserved for their great performances} but he obviously DID watch the movie.)

YOu can just watch the misleading trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SvqEIKP4t8

Coming Soon!

Here's the just released cover art to the anthology in which a story of mine will appear:

 
Yeah! (and to anyof you who have heard me complain about zombie stories all being alike--I decided to prove myself wrong & wrote a very different zombie story "Meatbots: a love story"

Just coincidence...but SHIVER

So just a couple days ago I was reading this great article in the newest Shambhala Sun called "Dead like Me" and the author quotes a W S Merwin poem I'd never read before, "On the Anniversary of my Death." Merwin contemplates living through the anniversary of the day he will die unknowingly each year of his life.

I don't think I had ever thought about that, but it's true...we all do. I thought, now that's poetry & have mulled it a bit over the last couple days. It's one of those ideas that tickle your brain. Or at least what I call "poetic" or profound ideas tickle MY brain.

So today I'm reading a children's book The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall and the ghost very nearly quotes the poem. Funny that such an idea would pop up two times & so near in time to each other.

OK, Here's the New Blog

I know I wasn't using Vox very much. Don't know about Typepad.

We shall see, but here I be.

Our New Family Member

Buffy Sainte Meow

She's just beginning to get along with her brother Banjo.

She's 2 years old & we've had her for a month and a half.

She's a stitch! Just watching her play is more entertaining than I can tell ya!

So Funny it Had to be shared

Crazy phone message

Yes, this message was left on our answering machine a couple weeks ago. I thought I would share.

Apparently we have "one of those numbers" Since we get a LOT of wrong numbers--and they never seem to listen to the outgoing message which says "You've reached Tim and Trent..."

I've been online elsewhere & otherwise occupied

I have been using FaceBook more recently. But I have also been quiet because we lost our old lady cat, Bruegel Passolini. She was my best buddy for sixteen years. She taught her brother Banjo how to be a kitty (when he thought he was a puppy). She helped me weather two breakups and multiple moves. She helped win over her Daddy Trent. She was the best cat ever. Here are some pictures for those of you not on Facebook:

Miss Bruegie 1992-2009

Forn Movies You Really Outta See

Ever one to try to bring culture to the masses (snicker on many levels) my latest blog for the DML website is about all the nifty foreign movies Trent and I have seen recently which are now out or are coming out soon on DVD. You can follow this link to read the whole post:

http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2009/03/movies-worth-reading.html

OR you can just get out and try to see Tell No One, Waltz With Bashir, I've Loved you So Long, and Let the Right One In. There's something there for everyone! Thriller, taught family drama, animated masterpiece/war movie, ingenious horror flick.

Have fun!

I think I have changed a little

Thanks to elementary school friend Doug Doll for the thirty year old picture of me...I believe I have grown up a little a bit

Me and Dave

Me head

WELL.....maybe grown up is the wrong phrase...