While You Were Sleeping, Three Unpublished J.D. Salinger Stories Were Leaked

Australians Are Winning The Superbowl! (Kind Of.)

Every year, Doritos run a global ‘Crash The Superbowl‘ contest, inviting the public to submit an advertisement, with the  winner receiving $1 million in prizes and the apparent honour of watching their ad during the Superbowl.

It’s one of those weird things where a giant corporation has managed to talk the public into doing their work for them, and benefit from the virality of all the best submissions.

But somehow it works for them, and produces ads like ‘Finger Cleaner’: the second-highest rated so far, which comes from an Australian team.

The finalists will be announced midway through next week. To check out the other top-voted submissions, click here.

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Three New J.D. Salinger Short Stories Have Been Leaked

Although J.D. Salinger stopped publishing in the 1960s, he continued to write for many years before his death in 2010. There is a variety of unpublished work yet to be seen by the public, which was confirmed by biographers Shane Salerno and David Shields, who released a by-many-accounts-quite-awful companion film to their book Salinger earlier this year. In both, they maintain that the Salinger estate is under specific instructions to release unpublished works between 2015-2020, including five new Glass family stories, a novel based on Salinger’s relationship with his wife, a war-time novella, and a bunch of new stories about Vedanta and Holden Caulfield.

It’s all been quite shrouded in mystery, but one thing is (pretty much) confirmed: that three new Salinger stories were leaked overnight, uploaded to file-sharing site WhatCD after an unpublished manuscript, presumably scanned from a protected library, was illegally auctioned off on eBay.

According to Salinger scholar Kenneth Slawenski, ‘Paula’, ‘Birthday Boy’ and ‘The Ocean Full Of Bowling Balls’ “look to be true transcripts of the originals and match my own copies.” They were previously available only for supervised reading by scholars at Princeton and the University of Texas; Salinger had instructed that ‘The Ocean Full Of Bowling Balls’ would not be released for 50 years after his death — so it’s arrived 47 years early.

You can choose to look at the stories by clicking here, or choose to respectfully not do that by clicking here.

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Way To Go, Two-Legged Boxer Puppy!

“Duncan Lou Who doesn’t let his unique differences slow him down & he doesn’t know he is any different. He is now 16 weeks old, does physical therapy every day to correct the damage to his spine since birth, is regularly going to be doing hydrotherapy for life to help support his muscles and he also has a custom wheelchair to give him a second option of mobility.”

Posted by Panda Paws Rescue in Vancouver.

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The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Was Kind Of A Huge Deal

Every year, the Macy’s Parade brings 3.5 million spectators to New York City, while another 50 million watch it from home.

This year the parade involved 15 giant character balloons, and 37 lesser ones; while Macy’s doesn’t release the cost of the proceedings, some estimates say one balloon can cost $200k to create, and $100k to maintain.

That sure is a lot of money, but will you just look at these GIFs (via Gawker)