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?"
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.
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.
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?!::
After all, what is originality?
JZ has achieved the perfect tone for this particular commenter.
Rumor mill says university president Spanier is resigning or being forced out tonight.
What Dogs Want.
The forgot to add "an elk carcass to crawl inside", though the "house of fish" comes close.
I got a job! Temporary, and I sort of neglected to inquire how much I would be paid. But it's in a library.
Of course, they want me to start Monday at 8am, so I need to arrange before and after school care stat, and my mother is arriving tonight at 7pm and not leaving until Sunday at 4pm and then we're invited to dinner Sunday night. Also, the boss of the job admonished me for talking too loud today. That's right, a shusher.
Still, a job!
Rumor mill says university president Spanier is resigning or being forced out tonight.
Good.
And, honestly, I wish Paterno were quitting immediately. Fuck "finishing the season." I don't give a good goddamn about college football or his lauded career in the face of what is tantamount to abetting sexual abuse of children. His ass should be gone today.
