Efficacious Reading

I walked to Barnes & Noble today to look around. I wandered through the history section, and looked at some Shelby Foote books. You probably know that guy from Ken Burns’s The Civil War series. I liked him as the Civil War expert. I leafed through some of his books, thinking I’d like to read one (even though I knew I would never do so).

In the morning, I looked at the front page on my complimentary USA Today and saw that he died around the same time that I was looking at his books.

I hope it didn’t have anything to do with me.

The Tigger voice guy and the Piglet voice guy died this week, but I doubt my viewing of Pooh’s Huffalump Movie caused it. I’d hate to have that kind of power.