Mar 13, 2008

Silly meme, but I’ll do it anyway since they can be fun. (via Erica and Ed)

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

The book that was sitting on my desk here at home was “Cannery Row”, by John Steinbeck (and a gift from my friend Chris)

The blood spurted from Mack’s lips and ran down his chin. He tried to lick his lips. “Put up your hands, fight you son of a bitch,” Doc cried, and he hit him again and heard the crunch of breaking teeth.

Sweet. Add your own if you’d like.

Minnesota’s tallest red pine: Old, dying, majestic. It still stands, but it has lost much of its aesthetic charm and no longer towers above 120 feet. It no longer claims national-champion status. The winds that took or savagely altered so many Minnesota trees last summer reached around other impressive but not quite so tall red pines to shear the champion’s crown, leaving a jagged and nearly barren top.

Minnesota’s foreign-born population: then and now. “There is nothing new about tension. If your family came to this country a hundred years ago or more, some of the people already here probably objected quite strongly to them being here. But now I think we can all agree that it is probably a good thing that you and your family are a part of this society. If we know anything, we know that keeping people apart doesn’t seem to work.”