I love Star Wars toys. Notice the present tense there. Sure I loved them when I was a kid, but I still think they are great, and anytime we go to a flea market type store and I find some, it takes Tricia thirty minutes to talk me out of buying them all. That being said, I think my favorite toys growing up were G.I. Joes. I mean, their elbows moved, and Star Wars figures didn’t. And my favorite of the G.I. Joes? Snake Eyes of course. Even though Beachhead apparently grew up in Auburn!?

So tell me, what was your favorite toy growing up? I’ll pick one of you at random, and if I can find your toy for less than $10 on eBay, I’ll get it for you. If not, I’ll send you a book or something. Yo Joe!

Groundhog Day is one of my favorite films of all-time. I just love it, and will stop and watch it anytime I flip past it on TV. Last year I was reading about the movie on wikipedia and came across this quote that blew my mind, and gives the movie a much darker feel to me.

Stephen Tobolowsky said that Ramis (Harold Ramis, the Director) told him that he felt that the entire progress of Groundhog Day covered 10,000 years. “I always thought that there were nine days represented [in the film], and Danny Rubin, the writer, said that he felt something like 23 days were represented in the movie, [but they lasted] over 10,000 years.”

10,000 years!  Anyway, while we are on the subject, if you had to pick a day in your life to live over, and over, and over again, which one would it be? Wedding day? Or maybe a day from the honeymoon? An Iron Bowl? How about a day you visited a major city, where you’d have a hard time running out of things to do. What day are you picking?

First lets give away a book from last week’s top-10 books of 2011 post. The winner, as chosen randomly by some number generator I found online is……….(Drumroll)………….Jeff Johnson. Congrats Jeff, you win one of the 10 books off my top ten list.

Do the magazines you subscribe to say something about you? Or do they just say you can’t say no whenever the Books-a-Million associate offers you 8 free issues with your purchase. We subscribe to Entertainment Weekly, because Tricia use to get it in college, and enjoyed it, so I bought a subscription for her last birthday. And we also subscribe to The Economist, because I had to subscribe to a magazine to earn some frequent flyer miles back in October, and I figured we needed something smart to cancel out Entertainment Weekly. But enough about us, what magazines do you subscribe to?

It’s a new year, and you know what that means, resolutions! I’ll show you mine if you show me yours.

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Does your pastor love God? Let’s hope so. Does your pastor also love football? If so, I’d like to give him a copy of my book, God and Football.  I’ve got around 40 copies to give away, so just post your pastor’s name, church, and the church address in the comments section below, and I’ll get a copy in the mail.

We’ve got winners!

First, the two tickets to the Alabama – Kent State game go to………..drum roll…………..

Erick Tidwell!

And the two tickets to see Auburn take on Utah State go to………..drum roll…………….

Walt Till!

Congrats guys, and thanks to everyone for playing.

Now, for today’s giveaway I’ve got a copy of Gene Chizik’s new book, All In, and I’ve also go a copy of my friend Tommy Ford’s latest book, Bear Bryant on Leadership.  To enter, just comment below, and say which book you’d like to win, if you’ll take either book, just say so. Good luck!

Last week I was asked to speak to the New York City Auburn Alumni Club. Tricia was able to make the trip with me, and we turned it into a mini-vacation. Here are some of the pics.

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You write a book, and one of two things happens.  1.)  It releases to middling reviews, yet sales skyrocket, and the book becomes a New York Times Best-Seller.  For the better part of six months your book is the talk of the literary world, but after a year comes the backlash.  Five years out your book is widely regarded as crap, and within ten years your name is synonymous with things everyone buys, but no one actually likes.  You die, a moderately wealthy laughingstock.  Or 2.)  Your book releases to no reviews.  After three years only 350 copies have sold, and the publisher gives you the remaining 4,650 of the initial print run.  These sit in your garage for the next sixty years.  At your death most of your friends do not even know you wrote a book.  But in the years following your death, your book is part of a literary revival.  Critics begin to call it the defining work of your generation, and soon it is being read in classrooms around the world.  Within twenty years of your death, your book is the 10th best-selling book of all-time, just ahead of The Da Vinci Code, and right behind the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.  But obviously, you never know any of this.  Are you taking 1 or 2?