Oprah is way too powerful.

For two days, three blocks of Chicagoland's famous Magnificent Mile are being roped off for the season premiere of Oprah Winfrey's talk show. (Link here)

My question is: how the hell does one person have enough sway to fence off one of the busiest streets in America for so long? I'm okay with Christopher Nolan taking over Wacker Drive for filming the epic car chase scene in The Dark Knight, but do the streets of the Magnificent Mile really need to be blocked for just one episode of one show for one woman? That's thousands of dollars' worth of traffic re-routing, security, and minutes lost to commuters, yo.

I iz in ur streetz, blockin off ur GAP storez.

Who am I kidding. If I had half the clout she did I'd be deliberately jamming traffic in a different city every morning too.