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"Everyone has pain. It's your job to find it."

Rhaomi — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:12:26 -0800

Start a home business, get rich quick, win financial freedom! If you watch late-night TV, you've heard it all before. But what's the story behind these slick pitchmen and their dubious schemes? Enter The Salty Droid, your ornery metal guide to the corrupt underworld of scam-marketing scum. This charmingly acerbic bot (owned and operated by mild-mannered Chicago dog-lover Jason Michael Jones [inter-view, long talk + transcript]) is a valiant crusader against the vile con-men who bankrupt the elderly and the desperate with beautiful lies. Exposed so far: A shadowy "Syndicate" of frauduct-pushing personality cults polluting the media with blogspam and woo-woo talking points. Boiler rooms in the Utah desert where telemarketers farm credit from easy targets with cunning, probing scripts [PDF]. Powerful politicians bought wholesale. Believers left to die in fraudulent new-age vision quests. It's a soul-crushing beat, enough to make one feel like a regular catcher-bot in the digital rye. But somebody's got to do it -- preferably someone with plasma nunchucks and titanium skin.

It is these that the vendor suggests may have been dreamed up while sitting on the toilet.

twoleftfeet — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:53:57 -0800

Author JD Salinger's toilet put on sale for $1m.

Betraying Salinger

chunking express — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:30:17 -0800

Betraying Salinger. "I scored the publishing coup of the decade: his final book. And then I blew it."

For JD - with Love and Squalor

l33tpolicywonk — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:40:32 -0800

Famously reclusive American author J.D. Salinger has died at 91. The author of The Catcher in the Rye, a novel alternatively banned and labeled the Great American Novel, Salinger was also among the last authors whose short stories were routinely published in magazines. Salinger's other published works include Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories & Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. Largely avoiding the public eye since 1962 - and caught admist a series of legal battles and relationship rumors - Salinger has served as the archetypal reclusive author, most famously in the films Field of Dreams and Finding Forrester.

In Search of Salinger

Knappster — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:17:13 -0800

"I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work." Reclusive author J. D. Salinger today celebrates his 90th birthday. He hasn't published an original work since 1965, but he continues to attract followers, and to avoid them. He told one uninvited visitor in 1978, "There's no gracious way to tell you to leave. I'm becoming embittered." But interviews with the author do exist.

"Interview with J. D. Salinger" (1953)
"J. D. Salinger Speaks About His Silence" (1974)
"What I Did Last Summer" (1981)

Salinger on the web

cmaxmagee — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:15:10 -0800

Read J.D. Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" if you're bored at work this week (or stuck in a Mexican hotel). And when you're done with that dig into the rest (with a couple of exceptions) of Salinger's published work.

Literary Labors of Love and Linkage

y2karl — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:51:23 -0800

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

Holden Caulfield in Catcher In The Rye

J.D. Salinger did not quite agree but then, if you can't hang out with his secretive self, or any other chosen literary icon, you can build her or him a fitting shrine or two or three. It's not quite Smoking Dope with Thomas Pynchon but...

luser — Tue, 20 Aug 2002 09:28:23 -0800

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where all these profits came from, and why all these acquisitions went sour, what our net income is, and why WorldCom stock prices are in the toilet, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." Holden Caulfield, caught up in the boom.

Happy birthday, Holden.

honkzilla — Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:32:29 -0800

Happy birthday, Holden. Catcher in the Rye turns 50 years old today.