Cocktails and Records

Thanks to ishouldbeworking, I have been tagged for a meme that requires me to open the book I’m reading (I think) at page 123, skip the first five sentences, and then share the next three.

This is nice. It assumes that I:

1. Read books
2. Read books with more than 123 pages in them.

Sadly this is rarely the case and I’ve yet to read my first proper book this year. So instead, I offer page 23 of the most recent book I have actually read which is… [embarrassed, but still faintly nostalgic cough]… Flat Stanley and my grateful thanks to Valentine Suicide for reminding me of its existence in this post.

Actually, it’ll have to be page 22 because there is a picture of Stanley getting out of an envelope on page 23.

The next day Mr and Mrs Lambchop slid Stanley into his envelope, along with the egg-salad sandwich and the cigarette case full of milk, and mailed him from the box on the corner. The envelope had to be folded to fit through the slot, but Stanley was a limber boy and inside the box he straightened up again. Mrs Lambchop was nervous because Stanley had never been away from home alone before.

For once in my life I’m going to embrace the spirit of these things, and pass this on to my two favourite serial commenters Planet Mondo and Ill Man (in the hope that they come up with some seriously obscure music facts or works of literary genius) and also my old friend Alison because I think she might like this one.

Tags: dirty nostalgia, memes bloody memes

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