Self Educated Idiot » Blog http://blog.selfeducatedidiot.com Book reviews and personal observations of an idiot five-time college dropout. Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:53:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Boomsday Related Vandalism? http://blog.selfeducatedidiot.com/257/boomsday-related-vandalism/ http://blog.selfeducatedidiot.com/257/boomsday-related-vandalism/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:57:24 +0000 meMEmeME http://blog.selfeducatedidiot.com/?p=257 Six figure dollar damage to a golf course. Golf carts burned and greens damaged and tee times cancelled.

I saw this in the news and instantly thought of Boomsday by Christopher Buckley. If you’ve read the 2007 novel, by the author of Thank You for Smoking, you might have thought the same thing.

I grabbed the book via B&Ns bargain section just a few weeks ago so it the book is fresh in my mind. I let it sit in my “To Read” pile for a while but now that I’ve started I don’t want to put it down. It is good stuffs.

If you haven’t seen the 2005 movie adaptation of Thank You for Smoking, you should. Here is the trailer for starts:

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