Not writing, but classical music.

Awesome!

This one has it all: The recordings of a little-known but critical darling classical pianist were actually recordings of even lesser known classical pianists. Although it's unclear whether the late Joyce Hatto was in on it, her husband finally confessed yesterday that he did steal other people's performances and put them under his wife's name. To cover his tracks, he'd either speed up or slow down the recording during the transfer process.

He was finally busted by, of all things, by the meta data displayed on iTunes.

Neil Gaiman has more details here. (Funny how writers seem to be very interested in this case.) Here's the detailed article he links to. Here's the husband's confession.

Classics Today has the whole story, too. (Scroll down to "Editorials" to get the scoop.)

All articles have links to other Web sites where dedicated audiophiles and classical music fen are building the evidence against the late Mrs. Hatto and tracking down the original artists. Here's the main page detailing the investigation at Pristine Classical.

It's...it's...the real life version of stop_plagiarism.

I'm so verklempt. *sniff*



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A discussion thread that asks: Where the F**** did "cum" come from?

I especially love finding out that the Wikkipedia entry on is not only not worksafe, it also has a video demonstrating the male ejaculation.

[I checked. The information is solid. Heee!]

No definitive answer yet about the source of "cum" in place of come as a sexual term, but so many play on words that I can't stop laughing.

Yes, I'm procrastinating. Why do you ask?

Edit: Somebody needs to (on purpose) write a hilariously bad PWP using "cum" for all "come"s.

Don't look at me to do it. I can barely write about kissing. Yes. I suck.

I had to share this one because it made me laugh out loud.

Mark Twain tells Fenimore Cooper: LOL!1!!!1!! U sux0rz.

Awesome! They don't make flames like this any more.