Anybody post this yet?

[Dave Monroe]

Sorry if this had been posted already.  If so, I missed it.
Unbelivably, I also missed it in last week's Onion, and we get the free
print ed. here an' ev'rythin'.  From "CNN Still Releasing News Piled Up
during Elian Gonzalez Saga," The Onion, 11 October 2000:

    Reclusive novelist Thomas Pynchon, who came out of hiding on May 17
to speak out on some sort of impending crisis, breaking more than 20
years of media silence, expressed hope that his segment will eventually
reach the airwaves.

      "Hello? It's me, Thomas Pynchon," Pynchon said. "I have J.D.
Salinger here with me, too. We're here trying to raise awareness of this
profoundly serious crisis. Is anybody listening?"

      Those interested, Lang said, can learn what Pynchon had to say
during CNN coverage of the May 17 announcement, slated to air sometime
around Christmas.

Complete text @:
http://www.theonion.com/onion3636/cnn_news_piled_up.html.  See?  We've
been telling you, Pynchon, politics.  "Those who know ..." ...