MeMe x Twelve

Why are some MeMes fun? I saw this on one of the blogs I lurk.
1. susan, 2. Strawberry-Balsamic Chocolates, 3. The Horse Who Lives Near the High School, 4. light spoke to me, 5. Mariachi!, 6. llibreria - bookstore - Amsterdam, 7. Tokyo International Quilt Festival January 2006, 8. chocolate lovers' ultimate delight, 9. simultaneousness…♫ little egrets - egretta garzetta - from bali ♫♫♫, 10. Travel Broadens The Mind., 11. binary easter egg, 12. Loop de Loop


How it works:
+ Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
+ Select an image from the first page.
+ Copy and paste the image's URL into fd's mosaic maker.

The Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name

What you realize:
+ There ought to be a license for unsupervised play in Photoshop.
+ Sunsets. Big. Why?
+ One is attracted to a consistent color palette.
+ "Bono" Flickr search pulls up a Lego Boy Band. (See photo 5.) Why?

Rabbit, Run

May’s read at the bookgroup was Rabbit, Run, by John Updike.

I am a simple human. I could not get past Rabbit’s juvenile run from responsibility and consequence of Rabbit to enjoy the novel. I know we’re supposed to accept Rabbit as authentic in his impulsive reactions to his instinct. But aren’t we to expect more? Society’s glue is our responsibilities to ourselves and one another – society’s glue is that we respect.

Updike’s writing is gorgeous – hurried, emotional, confused, densely allegorical without undue weight. The scene of Janice unable to care for her newborn startles – the reader stumbles with Janice in her drunken haze. His depiction of a dead American town and how men and women interact with one another unnerves as these themes feel timeless.

I’m sure bookgroup will continue to read the Rabbit series – will Rabbit grow up in one of those novels?