What's interesting about believing The Secret is that it takes something that seems defensible and easy to be believed a couple of clicks to a place that seems, from the outside, somewhat crazy.

I suspect that has something to do with the shift from "seems like a good idea" to "ideological center of the universe." Because then suddenly that idea can't EVER be wrong lest the whole underlying premise be found wrong. And if the idea isn't wrong, then the problem must lie within the person instead.

Aimee, I don't know if you ever watch Ace of Cakes on Food Network, but in their next new episode (which I don't know the exact date of, unfortunately), it looks like they make a cake for Daniel Radcliffe, who looks exceedingly young in the commercial.

I have nothing to say about The Secret other than it's clearly not working very well, because my life is pretty happy and good right now, and I'm about as negative a person as you can get. Also, tiny seething ball of rage. I must be doing it wrong.

To which I call bullshit because I think about being rich and thin ALL THE TIME.

Yeah. I've been vividly and consistently imaging George Clooney in my life for years now. So far? Nada.

Any slight negative thought and it just screws up the Secret.

Not a single negative one. In my, um, affirmations I'm always saying yes. Sometimes I'm yelling it. Repeatedly and to the point of breathlessness. Yes George! Yes! Yes! Yes! Oh GOD Yes!

What's interesting about believing The Secret is that it takes something that seems defensible and easy to be believed a couple of clicks to a place that seems, from the outside, somewhat crazy.

Right. Its not like everybody in Darfur is just whiny or all those folks shipped off to Auschwitz wouldn't have if they'd just said "I want to live free of Nazis" instead of "Don't let the Nazis slaughter me and everyone I know." Yeah yeah, Godwin's Law.

And its not like all the delightfully successful people are fonts of positivity. Paris Hilton has made a rather lucrative career on nothing... though arguably "that's hot" IS a positive statement.

And...I'm off to a sexual harassment prevention class. Lucky me.

Must be that time of the year - I had to do that last week

Waste of time. You know, some things can't be learned. You either have the talent or you don't.

The universe is nothing but a toddler!

That explains why there is shit in the toy microwave.

I need to set my TiFaux for Ace of Cakes. I still haven't watched Persuasion yet. But it did record. I hate this TiFaux more than I hated Time Warner's TiFaux.

The Universe is nothing but a toddler!

a cranky angry toddler.

Zoinky doinks. I love those cakes!

What I love about Ace of Cakes is that, for all that Duff Goldman is a real showman and loves the camera, most of the show is spent with the other people at the bakery, especially the low-key Geoff (I love the quiet-yet-snarky type!) and the completely awesome (said with Dufflike enunciation) Mary Alice. In the commercial for the new ep, which is very Harry-Potteresque, you see her tell Duff, "Hey, Dumbledork, turn the lights back on!", which cracks me up every time I see it.

I try so hard to be tolerant, but then other people are intolerant, and then I am intolerant of them.

I refuse to tolerate intolerance.

I am off work now! t /testing The Secret

Nope. Still here.

Nope, DJ. The universe heard "work now" from you.