I'm not going to do the one word meme that's been going around. Because to be honest I'm afraid of the one word people would use to describe me.
But I found this other meme and it looks fun, if a little similar to one I've done before. But I can't think of anything else to write about today.
Closest Blue Book Meme
1. Grab the nearest book with a blue cover.
2. Open the book to page 86.
3. Find the first full paragraph.
4. Post the text in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find, just the closest blue book.
This book was sitting flat on my desk within about four inches of my right hand so it was easy to find.
"She really knows how to write from instinct & innocence. Few women can do this. Joan Kerouac... a new writer on this old horizon. I see me & her cutting around the world in tweeds, yass...Mierschom {sic} pipes with youknowwhat in them, he he." ---Jack Kerouac
from page 87 (page 86 just has a photo) of Women of the Beat Generation
Also, this is a huge list of book titles mixed with band names.
My favorites:
Charlie Daniels and the Chocolate Factory
Horton Hears a Hoobastank
Of Mice and Men at Work
Bare Naked Lunch Ladies
The Agony and the XTC
The Scarlet Pimpernelly Furtado
Life, The Universe and Everything But the Girl
A Tale of Two Bay City Rollers
Green Day and Ham
One Fish, Two Fish, Hootie and the Blowfish
Tesla of the d'Ubervilles
Motley Crüsoe
Doctor ZhivaGoGo's
A Kraftwerk Orange
Midnight Oil in the Garden of Good and Evil
Oliver Twisted Sister
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I'm at work, and the closest book that is blue is "The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation." The quote is boring, of course - it's from a book about legal citation formats. But I thought the title was funny, in light of your question.
"For cases with multiple dispositions, however, the parenthetical identifier is given only when a case is cited as the primary citation. Once given, the parenthetical identifier may be used when the case is cited again. Thus, the following examples are correct:"
Posted by: jocelyn at June 20, 2006 10:33 AM
Oh my god Tesla of the D'Urbervilles has made me fall down laughing.
Posted by: Your Sister at June 21, 2006 7:42 PM
Those book/band titles totally cracked me up. I'm partial to the Dr. ZhivaGoGo's.
Posted by: cari at June 22, 2006 1:43 AM
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