Bailouts, muffins, plumbing...I don't know...

I have to share a thematically appropriate nugget of a Times article about writers and their plight, which should be in Sunday's Book Review. While I can't decide if any of it's uplifting or motivational, it's a little bit brilliant, and I particularly enjoyed this:

A bailed-out writer would no doubt for many months continue to begin conversations with phrases like “I just had a great idea for a n—.” A custodian would intervene here and offer to end the sentence more constructively with something like “—new kind of delicious muffin?”

And you know, especially in light of this article from last weekend, maybe Greenberg's plan is the way to go. Because yes, yes: Joe the Plumber, of lore, has a book deal. Oh, and the book is just about out already. I'm in publishing. I know what that means about the book. But that's not even the point. I mean, really: where to start? What is the point?