I was tagged by Joe-to-Hell to complete a blog quiz/activity...and just in time to get me away from a rather grotesque theme that was beginning to develop here.

Here are the questions:

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Locate the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences on your blog and in so doing...
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged me.

"Restauants will follow suit. As of yet, the famous 'restaurant renaissance' has not found its way north of City Hall. Maybe Steven Starr, great American restauranteur and owner of a dozen plush places in town, will expand his empire to NoBro. And then I can take Tom Ferrick Jr. there for a nice dinner."

This is from a book for Philadelphians - and more specifically, ex-pats like me and the author - called Walking Broad by Bruce Buschel.

Its an interesting, albeit somewhat depressing, tale that documents the author walking the length of a long Philadelphia street that crosses many different types of neighborhoods, and thus he encounters widely varying residents, economies, and aesthetics during his journey. The street is Broad Street - and the "NoBro" reference is North Broad - a section of town with some decent but many depressed areas adjacent to it.

I won't tag anyone but if you'd like to engage in this activity for some quasi-literary blog fodder, please be my guest!