Meme Tag ... Wanna Play?

Alice "tagged" me with a book “meme” that’s been traveling around the blogosphere – for those of you new to the word, it means a kind of “pass-along-blog think game” you process before passing it on to the next set of bloggers. I invite those of you without blogs to “jump in” here with me! Go ahead … add yourself to the game by answering the questions in a “comments” post of your own. Just click on the link at the bottom of this writing. I’d love to hear from some of those new to (Pro)Claiming Age or from those of you who haven’t written for a while. Here we go:

You’re stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be? Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins … feeling my wild self here.

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character? Yossarian, Catch 22 … and this is where Alice’s interest in my “theoretical paradigm” might kick in. Move this into another mood, however, and I’d have to say Tom Bombadil, The Fellowship of the Ring … though in this case “crush” might not be the right word.

The last book you bought is? H.G.Frankfurt, On Bullshit (Harvard Press), planned for a first, fast read during days of after-semester recuperation before beginning summer studies in earnest.

What are you currently reading? Writing New Media, and I make no apologies – this is a great read even if it is one of those theory/pedagogy/classroom texts assigned as course reading books … and Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra

Five books you would take to a deserted island:
· The Bible: Old and New Testaments … an old and best friend
· The Complete Shakespeare, Ed. Orgel, Braunmuller
· The Critique of Judgment, Kant
· Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel
· The Basic Writings of Nietzsche, Gay, Kaufman
· The Essential Foucault, Foucault, Rabinow
· On Grammatolgy, Derrida
· A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze

Ok, ok…. I know eight is not five, but I’m willing to negotiate re: leaving some other part of life behind. I’m planning for a long stay!

Who are you going to pass this stick to and why? Brad because he’s just getting started with blogging and this is a good excuse for a first entry; Jen for the same reason; Kat, a new musical friend who’s bound to answer with a song; and, Tommi who is collecting good ideas for entries on her soon to be operational blog.