Reading is Fun...
RIF (Reading Is Fundamental), the children’s literacy organization ran PSAs during the cartoons I watched growing up. Their commercials always ended with a bunch of overly gleeful kids shouting “Reading is Fundamental!”. The kids in the neighborhood loved to make fun of the ad. They changed “fundamental” to “fun for the mental”. Terrible, I know.
There was a boy a few houses down from me named David. Not Dave, never Dave, always David. He was an awkward kid, which made him the kid that everyone picked on regularly.
The older kids used to come up with these new “Clubs” every few days. If you wanted to join the new Club, you’d have to be initiated. The funny thing was that all of the kids were grandfathered in from the previous Club, except David. In order to get into one of the Clubs, David once had to go up to every house on the block and ring the doorbell. He then had to tell whoever answered the door the neighbor kids’ version of RIF’s slogan with the same enthusiasm as the kids in the ad.
Speaking of reading, I haven’t really read anything since September. For Christmas, my step sister Julie and her husband, Adam bought me a Barnes and Noble gift card. I stopped by the bookstore after work last night. They had all of the 2005 “Best American” series marked 50% off. I picked up the Best American Nonrequired Reading collection.
Posted by chuck at January 20, 2006 11:12 AM
