I love it, and you should, too.

Go tell Schmutzie how hard she rocks.

Seriously, Schmutzie, I love it, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate your doing this for me. I've told you before, but you have quite a knack for this.

That's Schmutzie, all. Schmutzie.

Schmutzie!

All sorts of crap is coming out about Madame Plagiarist, mentioned in my previous entry. It turns out, her entire website is a conglomeration of various essays, entries, and articles, blatantly cut and pasted from her favorite sites.

Yeah, I'm going to out the poor girl. At this point, I might as well. Her name is all over the web anyway by now, because she's been stealing from several blogs much, MUCH more widely-read than mine, and the creators of those websites are understandably pissed.

This morning, after receiving my original tip-off from Judy, I received the following email in my inbox:

Subject: Your blog/article has been plagiarized

Dear all,

A blog I read was plagarized, and I was upset about it. Then I thought, what about her other entries?

They are all plagarized. And at least one is yours.

So I went to Blogger's feedback page at

http://www.blogger.com/problem.g

and sent them the following letter:

"The Blogger Blog, http://inflatable-emu.blogspot.com/, seems to be plagarizing EVERY ENTRY.

For instance, her Aug 15th post, "And off you go", is copied word-for-word here:

http://tsp.drivelwarehouse.com/
archives/008363.html

Her Aug 11 post, "Is that a hickey", is word-for-word here:

http://thisfish.com/
Archives/000748.html - the original author complains about the plagiarism here: http://thisfish.com/
Archives/000767.html

Her Aug 10 entry, “Olympian test of morality”, can be found here:

http://thisfish.com/
Archives/000767.html

Her Aug 10 post “Destination … Um … Er …” is from here: http://nonsenseverse.
typepad.com/nv/2004/07/
maybe_i_should_.html

Her Aug 9 post, “Laffy Taffy and Natural Childbirth”, is found here: http://luvabeans.diaryland.com/
placenta.html*

Her Aug 7 post, “The iPod – Second Coming of the Cultural Revolution”, is from here:http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
f=/g/a/2004/07/23/notes072304.DTL&nl=fix

Her Aug 4 entry, “Advertising Industry Comes Up With Perfect Image For Male Gender”, is found at: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/06/09/
notes060904.DTL&type=morford

Aug 3 “See Bush Grovel”: http://www.gravett.org/
yobbo/index.php?p=1028

Aug 3 “Letting Nature Take its course”: http://tsp.drivelwarehouse.com/
archives/008268.html

July 31, “From Hulk to Hector to… Bond?”: http://tsp.drivelwarehouse.com/
archives/008259.html

July 26, “Fond Memories” is aword-for-word excerpt from: http://luvabeans.diaryland.com/
030819_78.html

Jul 26, “Iraqui Institute of Sport Now = Soft”: http://tsp.drivelwarehouse.com/
archives/008202.html

Jul 25, “Sloppy Slapshot” looks a lot like: http://www.gravett.org/
pc/index.php?p=3410

July 22, “Barbie’s Slow Spiral into Middle Aged Madness” is from here: http://supremehoosier.
bravejournal.com/
entry/3913

I think you get the point.

Please, PLEASE, for the love of blogging, SHUT DOWN THIS BLOG NOW. She

is doing a terrible and reprehensible thing. It is despicable, disgusting, vile & illegal. Don’t let her get away with it any more.

Please contact me about this at sharon@rubberchickenguy.com. I take

this very seriously, as I hope Blogger.com will also do.

Sincerely,

Shiz"

Perhaps if your readers sent in similar letters we could shut her down.

Best of luck to you all,

SD

PS - There seems to be info here:

http://www.gravett.org/yobbo/index.php

Oh, and this and this were originally this and this.

From me, she stole only some early stuff, which was mostly brain-vomit. She even included my typos. (Note the "uteris" mention in the "Laffy Taffy" entry.) But the other folks are genuine writers, with really big readerships. So on top of her actions being just plain crappy, they were also stupid and poorly thought out. She plagiarized quite a few recent entries from very popular websites... Dumb, dumb, dumb. If a person is going to lie all the time, he or she had better be a fucking mastermind.

Her stolen selections are completely inconsistent in style. For instance, I would never, ever, ever be able to piece together a solid political article, and there is nothing from my copied entries that indicate that I could. She had to know she'd get caught eventually, considering the fact that the other blogs she copied from have readers in the thousands. (I'm lucky if I get 100 hits a day. But I love you guys.) I wonder if it's some kind of scam, or the basis for a performance art piece. There's something highly suspicious about this crappity-crap.

I can't help but feel bad for the girl. I doubt she had any idea what she was getting herself into. People take their work quite seriously, as well they should. I've come to learn that the blogging community is very dense, and word travels faster online than by letter, newspaper, or telephone. The blogging community is also liberally sprinkled with talented writers who work hard to be true to their creations. For the most part, it's a friendly, supportive environment. Overall, this whole thing is not a big deal to me. I'm not really mad. But plagiarism, in addition to just SUCKING, is a violation of that sense of community.

And, plagiarizing a blog? That's, like, the world's most pointless and stupid form of identity theft.

I recommend you follow this link. Apparently, the plagiarist, whose name is allegedly Caroline Dwyer, has done worse than just cut-and-paste the work of strangers across the country. According to what was found out about her, she is a pathological liar who owes money to her former employers, neglects the children she is paid to watch, is working in Chicago as a nanny with an expired Student Visa, has not given her parents in Australia any idea as to her whereabouts ...

The more I find out, the more I just pity her. If any of the above is true, she is obviously unwell.

Caroline? Go sort your shit out, online and off, or it will only get worse. Some folks are already devising retaliation plans, and I think they're prepared to be total bastards.

Okay, I have to go.

* I was recently discussing the separating pelvis phenomenon, mentioned in the entry "Laffy Taffy and Natural Childbirth", with the guy I was most recently dating. I mentioned how fucked-up it seemed to me, and wondered aloud if the separation of a woman's pelvis during childbirth would make a sound. He looked at me and said, "That's enough to never make me want to have sex, ever again."

I guess he meant it, because that's the last night I saw him.

Strange, that. Especially considering how eager he was to fuck me when I was on my period. In fact, I believe his exact words were, "I don't mind if you're on your period, I just really want to fuck you right now."

Yeah.

No, but I really have to go.

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