I don't really have much to say about Houston pastor Joel Osteen's reported $13
million book deal, except that I enjoyed this particular excerpt:
Two other people briefed on Osteen's deal - who also spoke on condition of anonymity because their companies do not allow the disclosure of financial arrangements - said his wife, Victoria, who appears with him at the "inspirational nights of encouragement and worship" that he conducts at arenas across the country, was also planning to publish a book, possibly with Simon & Schuster's children's division.
I can see it now: Davey and Goliath Get Thrown from Flight 1602 to
Denver and Wreak Holy Vengeance Upon Continental Airlines.
I just hope that when W decides to ghost write his memoirs, he has James Frey do it.
My father had been president.
Me president?
Politikal opertieves close to the family worked swiftly.
After being a half-owner of a baseball team,
I waz governor of my home staet.
President?
Sudenly, I was on Air Force One, blud coating the frunt of my shirrt.
I hadn't bean shaht.
It was that damn campaign contributor on that stop in Houston.
My drug deler.
-- My awful attempt at trying to parody the beginning of "A Million Little Pices"
Oh Thank God, Rory! For a moment I thought you'd had a stroke! :)
I thought the first Bush Library volume was that goat book he was reading on 9/11.