Another Brilliant Idea

Along the same vein as that PostSecret blog, Sasha Cagen has released a book based on her To-Do List blog, a website that posts the actual, honest-to-God to-do lists of ordinary people like you and me.

That is brilliant. Once again, someone is getting rich by letting other people do work for her. And people apparently find these to-do lists fascinating, presumably because it gives candid insight into the minds of the authors of these lists. Indeed, perhaps history would have been different if we could have just glimpsed at the to-do lists of notable figures throughout the years.

Hitler's To-Do List:

1. Go to the grocery and buy a dozen eggs.
2. Placate the west.
3. Pay the power bill.
4. Place a flaming bag of poo on the doorstep of Jew neighbor.
5. Write nasty letter to art school.
6. Invade Poland.

Ah, had we only known!

John Hinckley Jr's To-Do List

1. Write letter to Jody Foster.
2. Make list of Ways to Impress Jody Foster.
3. Buy gun.
4. Paste photo of me on picture of Jody Foster.
5. Book a room at the Hilton Hotel.
6. Shoot leader of the free world.
7. Pick up Jody when she falls for me.