Josh, seriously, what the heck are you thinking? Next year was going to be a solid year. You and Greg coming back as juniors. A rough, experience building year would be behind you. You still have things to learn. Remember how much Sheldon Williams improved his junior and senior years. It was an amazing transformation. But, alas, you've decided to leap into the NBA Draft. I hope you don't hire an agent so you can come back to school. I have to say I'm a bit disappointed.
Okay, onward to other odds and ends.
The Secret. I'm sure if you watch Oprah you know all about this book. Our CEO noted in his blog a couple of weeks ago that he was going to read the book to see what all the fuss was about. I flipped through the thing and here's my re-cap---don't want to read several self help books? Please enjoy bits and bobs from the authors of such books. Better yet, just read The Power Of Positive Thinking or investigate the concept of the laws of attraction and you've got it.
The bookselling populace that responded to his blog spit out a crazy ass amount of hatred for this book. It was some of the best snark I've ever read. Employees nationwide shared their seething disgust over this lame ass text. Oh, and the dvd is a crock of crap as well. I saw a clip on Best Week Ever and apparently if you constantly think about a bike, carry a picture of a bike around with you at all times and peer at said picture under the covers late at night, one day a moderately creepy elderly man will appear at your door with a bike. Using that logic if I carry a picture of Trent Reznor with me, etc. he should be at my house in no time. Hopefully without the old dude.
One commentor pointed out that the author shares the theory that if you don't want to be fat you should not be around or LOOK AT fat people. I think perhaps that's taking the laws of attraction thing a bit too far kids.
If I remember the Newsweek article correctly, the "author" is a woman who lost her job as a tv marketing executive. She was wandering around a library one day and found some old book that she, essentially, took her ideas from, combined them with the ideas already mentioned and wrapped it up in a Da Vinci Code-esque package.
Many booksellers voiced their concerns about carrying the book and what it did to our image as providers of fine literature. These people have obviously not worked for the company long. We don't really care what the book is like. We have the Paris Hilton autobiography for goodness sakes. If it sells, we will pretty much carry it. Sure it's a sad commentary on society that millions of Oprah's drones will come out for this book, but I atleast they are reading I suppose.
Also on the work front, I'm sure you remember my damaged/defective saga as I have mentioned it before. Our fearless leader FINALLY came back and scanned out the 6-ish boxes of product. The reason--there was a conference call regarding our upcoming inventory and managers were reminded that we aren't allowed to do d/d's the week before the inventory and I'm guessing his memory was jogged. Of course, I'm sure since our inventory isn't until May that we will have another 6 or so weeks worth of boxes stacking up again.
Finally, a quick bitch about 24. So this past Monday's episode featured the return of three characters I'd thought had gone for good. I had no problem with the re-appearance of the pres's sister. But, I can't stand Jack's sister-in-law. Her husband is dead only a few hours and already she's trying to make time with Jack. Granted, her marriage was a scam, but I don't really care for the actress and there doesn't seem to be much chemistry between her and Kiefer so the gooey eyed shit is just annoying.
What really irked me though, was when Jack mentioned that he'd been seeing someone before he went to the Chinese prison (watch the show if you're confused) and he needed to find out what was up with her before he went forward with his life. Annoying chick says, "Oh, do you mean Audrey Raines?"
HOLD THE FRAK ON PEOPLE!! From what we've been told this season, Jack has not spoken to his father or brother for around 9 or so years. His brother's marriage was full of communication problems so even though his brother may have known about Audrey (and he probably did since he was behind all of last season's troubles) I somehow doubt he told his wife. Hearing her just blurt out Audrey's name from nowhere really ticked me off. Granted, we do find out Audrey is supposedly dead (yeah! didn't like the actress or the character very much) so that's a good thing.
I can't remember if it was Jinn or Matt who asked me who I'd have hook up with Jack, but I couldn't come up with anyone really. And do you want to know why? 'Cuz he's mine dammitt. HA HA!!!
WATCH IT:
Mirrormask--scriptwriter Neil Gaiman and director David McKean team up again for this fantasy tale about becoming a teenager, essentially. It's really compelling visually and there is some good humor in it as well. And, it's PG so it's perfect for the family to watch.
LISTEN TO IT:
LCD Soundsystem--"North American Scum" off their new album Sound Of Silver. I just picked this up yesterday and started listening to it while I was running errands. Initially, it reminded me of early Bowie meets Talking Heads meets glam rock.
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