Tidbits: Chicken Soup for your visual art appreciation

Chicken Soup: 

• Do you have a heart?  Test it by readwatching this piece, written by a teenage boy about he loves to read.  It is aptly titled What's Wrong with Reading?  I just want to give him a hug in the form of a stack of books!

Design & Art:

• Design alert! Fahrenheit 451 needs a new dress.

• Finally, beautiful homes I can afford...the coolest doghouses I've ever seen.

• When Bad Things Happen to Good Paintings: the plot thickens.  Every time I think about the restoration, I can't help but laugh.  SO GOOD, lady. 

Food:  

• Beatrix Potter has awesome handwriting and recipes.

 The Talkies:

• Alice in Wonderland gets CW'd and McG'd...strong potential for big explosions, cleavage, not much else.

• Oh, hello terrible romance novel pretending to be a teen novel that I could not finish (which is saying something) that is now getting optioned for another CW contract.  Just give me my Selection already, punks!

• I'm reserving judgment until the whole series is done, but I may be kind of excited in an "Oh Captain, my captain" way that Raven Boys may one day be a movie

• Beautiful Creatures Trailer I'm not sure how I feel, guys!  I think I like it and the leads; I think I'm also nervous they took some Tim Burtonesque creative liberties in Harper Lee's backyard and it may go a little off the tracks.  I think I should also not watch things pre-coffee.  
•  No link, but are you as excited that The Perks of Being a Wallflower is nigh?  Yayyyy! Yayyyy! Yayyyy! 

Jealousy:

•  Not only does Australia always get Christmas first, now you Aussies can brag about reading Quitana first. Color me jealous.