March 19, 2008
Living Oprah Lives Best Life For One Year

Have you read Living Oprah, the greatest thing in the world, ever? Penned by a 35-year-old writer, performer, and artist living in Chicago--who doesn't give her name--for one year she will be living her life according to Oprah's edicts. Because Oprah Winfrey, as we all know by now, is Christ reborn.
Over the past few years--after becoming one of the most powerful person in the world, arguably--has achieved an inner peace and sparkling clarity that most of us can only find inside a prescription pill bottle. How long and for how much does one get in on this happiness? Living Oprah finds out. Here's just a sample of one of the tasks LO must accomplish on the road to oneness:
Ordered my 'crisp, white shirt" from Old Navy for $16.99. We were told we all needed to have one. I'm sure I'd LOVE to wear Oprah's favorite version of the shirt from Brooks Brothers, but at $89.50, it's just not going to happen. Of course, if she'd told us we needed that specific shirt, I would have purchased it, but luckily, an option was given and I'll have enough money to buy the groceries to make tonight's dinner.
This is how you get a book deal, folks. Ingenious.
(An aside: did anyone catch the episode recently where Marie Osmond gave Oprah a slave-like black baby doll? Which was part of Osmond's horrible QVC doll collection? If not, you missed one of the greatest moments in TV history.)


To put an SF spin on this story, maybe this Chicago artist may have gotten the idea from SF-based writer Beth Lisick's book, "Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone."
This project may be even more dangerous than "Super-size Me."
For the record Brock, this is the finest moment in TV history:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BSf0cB3Odo8
[edited by SFist editor]
Sorry polkaroo2, this is how we learn that SFist can't handle links without quotation marks. Think of it as "Internal Server Error"'s sidekick, the little dickens.
i stand corrected, polkaroo2. i think about that episode of Intervention at least once a day. brilliant.
How many more high concept books like this until the trend wears out? "The year of living boringly?"