Afterlife “phony” and “crumby" for J.D. Salinger
Published 9:34 pm Thursday, January 28, 2010
Leave him alone: Writer and legendary recluse J.D. Salinger has died. He was 91.
Afterlife sources report that the sour-tempered Salinger declared his new plane of existence to be “phony” and “crumby,” and cursed at a shimmering shaft of golden light when it asked about a sequel to “The Catcher in the Rye.”
Flying off the shelves: Microsoft’s earnings jumped 60 percent in the most recent quarter. Strong sales of Windows 7, the critically acclaimed latest version of Microsoft’s flagship product, were responsible for the increase.
Also a factor was the decision of a 37-year-old Bismarck, N.D., man to buy a Zune MP3 player, boosting sales of that device by 100 percent.
Cognitive dissonance: Mel Gibson stars as a police detective who tries to find out who murdered his daughter in “Edge of Darkness.”
The investigation uncovers all manner of mysterious skullduggery, but Gibson is really thrown for a loop when he determines that the Jews had nothing to do with it.
