Loading ...And here we thought the New York story on plastic surgery would be the most fucked up (and entertaining) music-related story we’d encounter this week. Not even close, thanks to a reader of Jody Rosen’s, who informed the Slate/Rolling Stone critic that someone named Mark Williams had copied his Jimmy Buffett piece for the former in a Texas weekly, the Montgomery County Bulletin. After contacting the paper’s editor and receiving a curiously blank reply, Rosen started nosing around some more. Dude, you stole my article [Slate]
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“Even in my worst moments of unconsciously pilfering my colleagues’ phrases I’ve never rewritten anything quite so baldly as Williams and his editor, Mike Ladyman, seem to be doing on a regular basis.”
Ladyman? Now, that’s a GREAT name for a 70’s glam band!
haha as soon as this went live I immediately regretted not naming it “The Ballad of a Ladyman.”
This blogger’s politics ain’t mine but this post from May 2007 deserves notice — Williams already had a rep, it seems.
(Which in rereading Jody’s piece he’d already found! Never mind! SO many instances found and listed that it almost became a blur!)