Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Memo to All Crepe-Hangers: It Still Ain’t Nobody’s Business If Jobs Is or Isn’t
Now, it’s getting flat-out macabre.
That would be the continuing swirl of attention the health of Apple icon Steve Jobs has been getting.
Rumors of his impending demise have been popping up periodically since the too-thin crisis of the Worldwide Developers Conference in June and look like they won’t stop until it actually comes true.
My grandmother used to have a perfect rejoinder for this kind of funeral-chasing behavior, which was prevalent among her gang of Italian sisters, who–whenever anyone caught a cold–predicted the worst outcome: “Don’t be a crepe-hanger.”
