WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!

from cnn.com:

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- For spring break, some college students set out for sun-drenched beaches or cheap European cities. Skyler Bartels headed for the local Wal-Mart.

Bartels, 20, an aspiring writer and Drake University sophomore, thought he'd spend a week in a Wal-Mart as a test of endurance, using it as the premise for a magazine article. His college adviser liked the idea.

"I just intuitively thought, 'This is brilliant!"' said Carol Spaulding-Kruse, an associate professor of English. "I wasn't quite sure why, but it just sounded like a really good idea."

For 41 hours, Bartels wandered the aisles of a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Windsor Heights that's open 24 hours a day. He checked out shoppers, read magazines, watched movies on the DVD display and played video games.

He bought meals at the in-store Subway sandwich shop, but was able to catch only brief naps in a restroom stall or on lawn chairs in the garden department.

Tiring to the point of hallucinating, Bartels said he decided to go home before he was thrown out.

He considered the project a failure.

Then, The Des Moines Register, which had been contacted by Spaulding-Kruse, called to ask him about the experience. Once the story ran, TV networks began calling.

He also talked with a book agent, has been contacted by New Line Cinema about a movie concept and did a radio interview with National Public Radio.

Bartels told The Associated Press he has decided the stunt wasn't such a failure after all.

"I'm incredibly happy with the press coverage," he said. "It would be kind of silly not to accept it with open arms."


WHAT THE FUCK!!! Some hippie wannabe writer comes up with a stupid idea, follows through with said stupid idea, and he gets a book deal and a movie deal!!!! He didn't do anything worthy of all this. If he went in there with the express purpose of writing a piece of journalism on America's rampant consumerism or maybe an anti-Walmart piece or even just to chronicle his story, then at least I could give him some credit, but he didn't do anything. He wanted to write a magazine article about a "test of endurance"? Go run a fucking marathon then. He just walked around and played video games. He didn't interview anybody. He didn't take notes. There is not one iota of journalistic purpose or literary merit to his actions, all he did was try to get a quirky news story written about him and in our stupid culture, he knew he would get his fifteen minutes out of it and it turned into a possible career THAT I WANT!!!!! Now this no-talent ass-clown is being asked by New Line cinema to come up with a movie concept?! I have movie concepts and show ideas and book ideas coming out of my ass on a daily basis which I guarantee have a lot more substance than this jackass!! Am I bitter? You bet your ass I am. This guy could be a genius or a fraud, but I'm putting my money on the lattter.



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