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J.D. Salinger died on Wednesday at age 91. Been a while since we’d heard from him.
Been a while also since I’d thought much about Salinger. Like most, I encountered The Catcher in the Rye as a young person, and like some I went on to read Nine Stories and everything else I could find. As a teen I suppose I identified somewhat with Holden Caulfield’s frustration. And puzzled over Seymour’s suicide in “A Perfect Day for Bananafish.”
But like I say, haven’t thought much about Salinger since, other than occasionally to wonder what he’s been up to, and whether he ever wrote anything again since 1965 when the last story of his to appear in print — the lengthy “Hapworth 16, 1924” — was published in The New Yorker. Perhaps now that he’s gone, we may find out more about what he’s exactly been up to these last 45 years. (Or not.)
Many have speculated about why Salinger — once a genuine literary celebrity, famous not just in academic circles but well beyond — stopped publishing and so thoroughly withdrew from the public eye. One oft-repeated story, appearing in The New York Times article from yesterday about Salinger’s death, concerns him having been interviewed by some high school students for what he thought was going to be an innocuous piece in the local paper. The interview wound up on the editorial page (not on the high school news page), and Salinger apparently was so upset he soon began refusing interview requests.
He also built a six-and-a-half foot fence around his property.
Publishing is a tricky business. One never knows exactly how others are going to receive your words and ideas. As in poker, there’s always an element of risk that must be weighed against whatever reward may come from putting yourself “out there.”
Just so happens that on Wednesday — the day I wrote about driving a lot — I was in the car listening to a National Public Radio segment that had to do with blogging and the way one potentially loses control of one’s message when putting one’s words and ideas on these here intertubes.
The story was about the Pope who is apparently considering whether or not to start some sort of blog. A few experts were asked for their thoughts, and there was some funny, irreverent humor in there with people giving the Pope advice about the need to blog every day, to use hot links (not footnotes), and so forth.
One such expert, David Weinberger (a technology pundit and blogger), came on to address this issue of what happens when one publishes online. “Putting a message out on the internet is exactly the same thing as losing total control of your message,” said Weinberger. “People take it up, they republish it, they make fun of it, they contextualize it, [and] the simple message becomes incredibly complex.”
As if to confirm what Weinberger was saying, there was another story about Apple announcing its new iPad in which the reporters noted that there probably weren’t any women involved in the naming of the new tablet computer. Without being specific, they were alluding to the instantaneous reaction on the internet to the name “iPad” which saw some associate it with a woman’s product. (Some may have noticed that “iTampon” became a “trending topic” on Twitter within an hour of Apple’s announcement.) I suppose you could call that another example of having (somewhat) lost control of the message, with the speed of the ’net significantly accelerating that process.
I’ve been well aware for a long time how keeping a blog — or writing and publishing, generally speaking — necessarily involves “losing total control” of one’s message. But really, who wants “total control”? If, that is, these are indeed “messages” we are delivering, with a hope that those messages might be heard and perhaps responded to in some fashion, and not just “broadcasts” (or sermons?) for which we neither expect or desire feedback.
No, publishing means being willing to share the “control” over one’s messages. Otherwise we’re just talking to ourselves. Like playing solitaire — no risk of losing, but not much to gain, either.
In a rare interview from 1974, Salinger told a reporter of how content he was not to be publishing. “It’s peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.”
I can respect that, but that’s about all I have to say about it. Not much one can say in response to someone who prefers sitting out to playing.
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Take the advice of many travel sites and head to Las Vegas for some of the lowest rates of the year. There are currently 43 Las Vegas hotels offering room rates of less than $40 for stay dates from this Sunday until Christmas Eve. These include some of the more popular Las Vegas resorts such as Bally’s, Excalibur and Harrah’s.
The 2009 rates are considerably cheaper than the 2008 rates with more Las Vegas hotels offering rates under $40 than last year. A total of 27 are offering rates under $30 including: Arizona Charlie’s Boulder, Boulder Station, Circus Circus, El Cortez, Ellis Island Super 8, Fiesta Henderson, Fitzgeralds, Four Queens, Imperial Palace, Lucky Club Ramada, Plaza, Riviera, Sahara, Sam’s Town, Santa Fe Station, Stratosphere, Tropicana, Tuscany, Vegas Club.
A total of seven Las Vegas casinos are offering rates under $20 until December 24th including: Texas Station (the lowest at $14.99). Fiesta Rancho, Gold Spike, Golden Gate, Hooters, Palace Station and Wild Wild West.
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PokerStars and FOX Sports are giving viewers even more reasons to watch “PokerStars.net Million Dollar Challenge”, the show producers announced that Playboy cover model, Maxim’s Sexiest Swimsuit Model in the World and “Dancing with the Stars” contestant Joanna Krupa and 2009 WSOP Main Event Champ, Joe Cada will join the cast for the next episode of the show airing on Sunday, December 13th.
Krupa will join celebrity defender UFC Champion Tito Ortiz to serve as the first line of defense against online qualifiers in their quest for $1,000,000, while the 21-year old bracelet winner from Michigan will join 2003 World Series of Poker champion Chris Moneymaker and Team Poker Stars Pro and Go Daddy Girl Vanessa Rousso as second round opponents.
If the constants find the way to come victorious on the first two rounds, then they will have the choice of taking the $100.000 or move to a final round vs. Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu for the $1,000,000 prize.
Negreanu will also serve as a coach on the first two rounds, discussing hands and offering advice on each and every hand. For every level Negreanu helps the challenger win, PokerStars.net will donate $10,000 to a charity of Negreanu’s choice.
Two episodes remain of the most watched poker program in TV history before the grand finale show on December 27th. Next Episode Airs on Fox on Sunday, December 13th, right after the NFL coverage.
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