Why am I up at 9am on Sunday Morning?
Last night, after my quasi-ritualistic trip to Sizzler, I had several opportunities to go do “things.” “Things,” of course, means going and getting drunk.
Instead, I decided that I was going to work on my romcom. Sizzler’s endless salad bar had inspired me to finish my romcom of endless entertainment. But, after writing two more brilliant pages, I got distracted and started reading You Can Negotiate Anything, one of the most amazing books I have come across in a while.
Besides just being a fairly interesting read, it is dated, making it even more entertaining in the same way that Gordon Gecko’s cell phone and the “cutting edge” computers make many scenes from Wall Street laughable today. Furthermore, I have started imagining what it must have been like at the time that this book was on the best seller list for 9 months, how annoying everyone would have been, having read this book, and imagining themselves to be the most amazing negotiators because of it. Moreover, I have also been drawing correlations between this book and Fight Club. I strongly believe that Fight Club is based almost directly on this book, so much so that I have been contemplating writing an annotated and supplemented version of You Can Negotiate Anything, using still frame and quotes from the Fight Club movie.
Negotiate that bitches!
