What to write

For some reason I get all paralyzed when I read things like this:

Write about a book or film that has provided you with a new way of thinking. Describe how this work has influenced the way you see yourself, others or society.

Guidelines as broad as this inspire a serious case of option paralysis. It's like going to Shopsin's (PDF) and looking at all the combinations of yummy goodness, hundreds and hundreds of possibilities, and just as you've scanned them all and think you've finally narrowed it down to half a dozen things, you flip the menu over and find...LUNCH!

In this case the films would probably be breakfast, and the books, lunch. I can't explain why. For some reason I associate watching movies with moles in the hole and fluffernutter french toast and raspberry mac-n-cheese pancakes with a side of andouille sausage. Books are much more bacon burger deluxe, more reuben on rye, more Waldorf salad.