Today's Chris Rose column in the Times Picayune featured everyone's favorite columnist talking about a possible Oprah appearance. It seems that the big O wanted Rose to appear on her program as an example of local depression and surviving the effects of Katrina. She refused to allow him to pimp his book (though that makes no sense to me since the reason people will know about him is the columns contained in the book) and wanted to force him to sign away his rights to write about the experience. Needless to say he refused and we got a very entertaining feature on his experience (and what could be seen as an extended ad, if most of us didn't already own the book). Unfortunately for Rose, he wrote the column before the show was finalized and he doesn't realize that Oprah's website not only mentions the book, it links to it as an official 'Books seen on Oprah' book. I wonder if the column went to O's people before publication? Enjoy the sales Rose, careful about the apology in next week's installment.

What's going on here? Why am I posting so much? Today, in honor of Katrina I am attempting another 24 hour 24 post blogathon.