Off to the dentist. Oh joy...
I couldn't believe it the first twenty times you told us, but it's starting to sink in now.
Riley ,'Lessons'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
SuziQ - Nov 09, 2011 9:45:01 am PST #5604 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
le nubian - Nov 09, 2011 9:47:20 am PST #5605 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Here is an article in the guardian about the plagiarist which names even more sources of his plagiarism!
!!
Apparently, one passage was stolen from 007 books and the plagiarism was uninterrupted for six straight pages.
JZ - Nov 09, 2011 9:55:35 am PST #5606 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Consuela, the commenters who are calling the plagarism homage and mash-up and satire have damaged my eyes.
I was just about to post something similar. There's so much wrong, and so deeply so, with those commenters' understanding of writing and music and, well, plagiarism that it's not even possible to know where to begin. Almost worse than the ignorance is the weird smugness and certainty that nobody has ever, ever figured this out before: "You literary snobs with all your talk of so-called 'plagiarism' and 'theft,' you have no idea how irrelevant and immaterial are your petty concerns. After all, what is originality? Aren't we all telling the same stories over and over, and aren't we all plagiarizing some original speaker of the language with every word we say? Bet you never thought about that, did you?"
Jesse - Nov 09, 2011 9:58:13 am PST #5607 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Argh. Someone tell me to get some fucking work done? Because my self-discipline thingamawhoozie, which never worked in the first place, now seems to have wandered off altogether.
Christ, me too. I thought being out of the office for a week would help, but nsm.
Theodosia - Nov 09, 2011 10:04:35 am PST #5608 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
My sleep-adjacent night is really taking its toll on me now... And alas, I too must go like the wind. Presumably a wind with a case of asthma.
Strix - Nov 09, 2011 10:22:29 am PST #5609 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I read that thing on the plagiarism on Publisher's Marketplace this AM, and was WTFF?
Oh! ION, who's dh'S ridic ex-wife called D at 2:05 TODAY to tell him he needs to take off work immediately for parent-teacher phone conference at 2:30? That's been scheduled for a week or two?
WOMAN! seriously! GRR. ::headdesk:: ::WHERESMACLUESTICK?!::
hippocampus - Nov 09, 2011 10:22:32 am PST #5610 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
After all, what is originality?
JZ has achieved the perfect tone for this particular commenter.
Hil R. - Nov 09, 2011 10:27:08 am PST #5611 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Rumor mill says university president Spanier is resigning or being forced out tonight.
le nubian - Nov 09, 2011 10:32:11 am PST #5612 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Hil,
GOOD.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 09, 2011 10:34:23 am PST #5613 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
What Dogs Want.
The forgot to add "an elk carcass to crawl inside", though the "house of fish" comes close.