Misty got me... I like this one, it's literary.The rules are:
1. Find the nearest book.
2. Name the book & the author.
3. Turn to page 123.
4. Go to the fifth sentence on the page. Copy out the next three sentences and post to your blog.
5. Tag three more folks.
Since I have a bookshelf near my computer and all books there are equally close-ish, I picked the only book I can see that isn't
a) a cookbook or
b) an IT Geek Manual (do you really want to hear something from the latest tome on Java? How about Python? Yeah, me neither...)
The book I have selected is: The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste: A Celebration of American Pop Culture at its most Joyfully Outrageous, by Jane Stern and Michael Stern (this is one of my most favourite books...).
Page 123, the 5th through 7th sentences are from an entry on the Fontainebleau Hotel:
It was a building that did more than make guests comfortable. It entertained them in nearly the same manner as Disneyland, which opened the following year, by creating exotic tableaux and farfetched illusions wherever you looked. People who lunched on the patio had underwater views of swimmers in the pool; for dessert they ate a dish called " La Rosee Poetiques Gourmandises Le Plaisir d'Empire" (based Alaska), carried through the room by white-gloved waiters in a flambe parade.
This concludes today's lecture on Historically Bad Taste in Hotels (and neo-Baroque architecture. Please join us next week when we discuss Cheese in a Can and Presley (Elvis).
I tag Bon, Trigreyhound, and Mishele.
And Chris because he's a kitsch specialist and understands tableaux.
5 comments:
Arrrrrrrrg! I've been Miami's Fountainebleau Hotel. It's quite the place.
Stay tuned...
I want that book.
The Madonna Inn in lovely SLO, California sounds like the Fountainebleau...
That quote reminds me that my Dad used to tell 'Jewish ladies at the Fountainbleau' jokes. Probably totally unPC by today's standards and not all that funny but back in the day he had people laughing until they cried.
rock on...I've got my meme up. Not quite as cool as yours, but I guess ya are whatcha read and well...
Chris, that's exactly what I thought of when you told me about the Madonna. Epically Kitsch.
This is so my favourite book in the universe. I'm glad I have been reminded of it.
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