For my birthday, Caitlin bought me with great book called “Hot Chicks with Douchebags” by Jay Louis.  The book explores what the author calls the “hottie/scrotey” phenomenon running rampant through our culture.  Not only are their fewer “hotties” for us quality guys, and there are also more, and more obnoxious, shirtless, musclebound crotchbaggers with oily foreheads, spikey hair and “tribal tatts with no tribe” running around make douchefaces and douche hand gestures in the otherwise sweet and innocent pictures of hot coeds.  Jay Louis is attemping to stop this by his book, which categorizes all of different types of ‘bags out there, gives a step by step guide to see if you’re slowly becoming one (if you’re a guy) and the tell-tale signs you’re dating one (if you’re a girl) and how us regular males can go about destroying this epidemic.

Needless to say, the book is fantastic.  Very few times have I laughed this hard at a book.  I have also been moved to tears, as Mr. Louis describes the same pain I too have felt a the douche-phenom that has affected my life and the hotties of my past.  (On a side note, lucky for me I was able to successfully do combat to any douches who attempted to pick up my wife while we were dating, and yes, there were a few that I did true combat with.  Though the combat of the douche is more of intimidation; deep, agressive stares, the battle of the head tilt, as well as using PDA in my favor.)  I’m currently half-way through the douche types in the book, and Louis is dead on.  I definitely encourage a purchase, especially if you’re currently struggling in the hottie-arena in your love life.

On a more serious note, I’ve also started reading “The Writer’s Time: Making the Time to Write” by Kenneth Atchity.  So far he has great insight on the process of writing for the “Writer” and those who think they are a “writer.” Writer’s with a capital W must constantly write regardless of anxiety, inspiration, and the loathed “writer’s block.” The introduction in this book is just fantastic, I can’t wait to get more into the meat of the book.

I ordered a few more books from Amazon for my birthday, and Doc J gave me a few of his that I’m pretty excited to read.  They’re all on my Readernaut page if you’d like to check them out.