Soul Pancake

People love to follow the next great fad.

For instance Rainn Wilson, famous for his role as Dwight in the American version of the show "The Office," wrote a book called "Soul Pancake." Of course, Rainn Wilson is not a writer. He is an actor, but because he is popular, or at least his character is popular, people like to believe that he must have something important to say.

More interesting than the book, however, is the Web site with the same name, also headed by Wilson. This site is, as it is says in the slogan, "a place to speak your mind, unload your questions, and figure out what it means to be human."

This is a very risky thing of Wilson to do, especially since he is most known for his performance in a show that is in no way intellectually stimulating. However, it is an interesting idea. I mean its not like anyone else has ever thought of a site where people can write something that people all over the world can see.

Yeah, thats never been done before...

So then I searched for something that this site had to distinguish itself from all the other sites out there. After searching a little while there was nothing new to be found. So in the end, most likely at first there will be a decent amount of people joining either because of their loyalty to Wilson or just because it's something with a new name, but after a few months those people will lose interest. However, people do very curious things and it is always possible for people to add this to the long list of sites that make them feel like their ever important opinion is heard by as many people as possible.

Ben Stevenson