Set up in good time and a bookish meme...

I am completely set up and back in the hotel to shower, have dinner and get ready for the first night. We are open from 5:30pm to 9:30pm this evening. I doubt I’ll blog when I get back, but one never knows. Until then, I offer:

So one who was, prior to this, one of my more favorite humans on earth just “tagged” me (figuratively speaking), with a bookish meme that has been kicking about for a few years. It is rather simple and arguably interesting. Take a look at what you are currently reading, page 123, find the fifth full sentence then transcribe the following three sentences. I am, as you know, “vacationing” in FL (yeah, I know, I’m doing a fair….but it is not really “work”, is it )...thus, the reading I took with me is…er...on the light and fun side:

1: Moore, Christopher, Island of the Sequined Love Nun (Avon, 1997):
“Why did you put us in tree?”
“I didn’t. It was an old island guy. I think he’s going to eat us.” [4, I know, but it was the middle of a quotation]

2: Montalbano, William, Basilica (Jove, 2000):
“They didn’t happen to say by any chance from what direction they heard it. Miami? Further south maybe?”
The Pope grinned. “Nice to get out. Air the mind, stretch the mental legs. Relax.” [I follow directions poorly.]

3: Millington, Mil. Things my girlfriend and I have argued about. (Flame, 2002):
There was never even a brief moment of indecision, climbing into the ‘reduced to clear’ bins, putting anything he passed that was remotely hat-like on his head and beaming right across his face. I’d have to rush after him and drag him back; there’s little Peter can be taught about controlling the balance of power.” [Admittedly, I read this myself already...but I am currently reading it out loud at night to my wife for reasons that are too funny to go into. Read the book, change the names, it is often far too close. N.B. Mil “started” with a website of the same name...take a look.]

4: Salen, Katie, The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning (MIT Press, 2008).
In one, players can learn about aspects of the world that particular games model, such as consumption in Animal Crossing or urban planning in Sim City. This is a kink of subject-centered literacy focused on examples of human practice. In the other, players can learn about procedurality itself, an inscriptive practice that will become more important only as computers continue to expand their role in society. [Always good to have something that makes you appreciate your escapist reading all the more.]

Sarah, in tagging me with this, noted that she hoped it would distract me from my re-dabbling with AD&D (only, of course, for the “family time” with the boys and Suz). This, mind you, from a woman currently reading, Cat Talk: What Your Cat is Trying to Tell You [Hint: Pick one: 1) Feed me. 2) Pet me. 3) Leave me alone. 4) Pardon me, I seem to have a wee bit of tinsel hanging out of my ass, would you mind pulling it out….slowly.]

I am now inflicting this upon Kent (of Ken Sanders fame) and Don (of Rabelais Books). Tag, you’re it. [N.B. Kent does not blog, to my knowledge...He is welcome to post here...now and in the future.]