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Wow! What a coinkidink!
What the heck happened with the blog carnival??? I am so curious now.
Ah . . . so The Secret Life of Opah was actually a pre-service pack version of Windows?
I thought perhaps the people in the music industry responsible for boy bands had moved to publishing . . .
Not to defend plagiarism, but I found myself in a very similar situation with my great unpublished novel. I had developed what I thought was a particularly witty piece of dialogue. After it had been on the shelf for a year or so I happened to be watching "L.A. Confidential" on tv and up came the same dialogue, word for word, including the character's first name. I had seen the movie once in the theater and I guess stored the whole thing away. I even noticed some variations on my plot devices.
So, off the shelf my book came and I added a couple more lines like, "You must be a big fan of 'L.A. Confidential'" and thus made my character look like a plagiarising creep, which actually fit in nicely.
Who was it said, "90% of original thought is faulty memory"?
Hey, maybe it was me.
I don't remember, Robert.
Well, if 90% of original thought is faulty memory, and 90% of everything is crap, then 81% of original thought is crap we forgot. Life could be worse.
Anne - welcome to the Hive! Spot-on with that observation. I think anyone creative has had the experience of putting down what seems brilliant at the time, only to look back and shudder. Add that it was someone else's shudder, though, and it's got to be far worse.
Sheila - that's a tale I'd prefer to take off the comments, if that's OK, since it led to some strained feelings for a while. I'll catch you later with it.
I'd like a global response on the carnival thing myself. Sounds amusing.
I hate it when I miss a big brou-haha!! If it was a bad thing and you don't want to talk about it - no need to hash it up. 
No, Sheila. Hash away!
It wasn't very fun when it happened... Although I remember that you had very nice words to say at the time, Robert.
But I like to please my public, even at my own expense, so here goes:
The Carnival.
The sheepish amendment.
Mike go cry now. (On the plus side, you get to enjoy the retro-look of the Hive circa last September.)
Are you kidding??? As I said at the time, the whole thing was pure genius and if it took a while to straighten out some loose ends, my God, who would care in the overall scheme of things?
I am still in awe, and I bow on my knees before the Master.
Bloody shame there's no current market for iambic pentameter talent. Just for teenage plagiarizers.
Robert, don't get me wrong, I'm quite pleased with the work I did. It was just very upsetting to have missed the links. It was like leading the symphony in a virtuoso performance that left out sixteen bars. Maybe I'm letting that loom too large in my mind, though.
Despite the issues surrounding it, it was great, Fly. And if your friends can't have fun at your expense, whose expense can they have fun at?
"For what do we live but to be sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn."
That's almost exactly what Jane Austen said, methinks.
I really thought those words were my own...or at least my father-in-law's!
Bingley, you internalized Jane Austen?
That's sad, man.
Not half as scary as the thought of Jane Austen internalizing Bingley.
[shudder]
Did you really have that thought, Cullen? Gads. Now I know why you went searching for David Hasselhoff news...
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