Even as CNN.com swallows its pride and gives idea-credit to a blog comment (more credit, it turns out, than the authoress of that comment gave her source), New York magazine steadfastly resists the idea that the MSM owes anything to the citizen'smediaarmyofbranchdavidians.
This week's Approval Matrix includes the following item (positioned on just the right side of the despicable/brilliant divide): "A Website reviews 'bardcore' porn films based on Shakespeare plots. To wit: A Midsummer Night's Cream."
A Website? A Website?! It has a name, you know. And feelings.
Of course, this doesn't even begin to address the facts that my bardcore reviews were first published in a magazine; that the idea was stolen from another magazine; that it originated with a college professor; and that this all happened four years ago. Zeitgeist is such a amorphous thing.
I've been making note of more bardcore films released since then with an eye toward writing a follow-up, but only if I can find someone willing to pay me to watch porn again. You'd be surprised how quickly it gets old when you have to take notes.
