Bonuses

[ltmurnau]

BrianDate 42.00546:

1. What a great time I had at Lucky on Tuesday! The Batnix played really well, and even played a new cover tune, the old "Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight" by the Rezillos! The burlesque was OK too, I stayed just for the first few acts.

I cadged a free drink from the bar itself, and play_to_zero very graciously bought me one too! Aaron gave me two Cheapass games, something I totally did not expect but am very grateful for (incidentally, I can't access gothvic.com from work any more, as it's now "red-screened" as a Naughty Place, so I can't find out his e-mail address - can anyone help me?) I took the last bus home so full of ego-strokes I thought I was gonna 'splode.

Thank you all, my friends, for wishing me happy birthday!

2. Yesterday I was Googling myself, as I sometimes do, and found that an article I had written about the Bonus Army of 1932 had been republished without my knowledge: The Bonus Army and the Torching of Hooverville. The magazine in question is Press for Conversion, a Canadian publication that started as a protest sheet against an annual arms show in Ottawa, and the issue (#53, March 2004) theme was "facing the corporate roots of American fascism".

However, in reproducing the text of my article, they did not reproduce the admonitory paragraph I placed at the bottom of the page from which they took it: "NOTE TO PLAGIARISTS: If you are going to just copy this text, add your name and submit it as a term paper, be aware that I have placed a small but significant error in this paper. If your teacher is any less lazy than you are, it will be found and you will be caught. However, if your motives are honest and you have read more than one document on the Bonus Army or the Hoover Government, then you will be able to catch the error and correct it."

And of course, though the editor did not substitute his name for mine, he also did not catch it, or contact me to correct the error. Har har, hardee har har.

Comments

[scuttle.livejournal.com]

Aaron doesn't have an email listed on Goth Vic, but he listed hopeful_scholar@hotmail.com on the old Yahoo! list. If that does not work, I could private message him and ask.

[play-to-zero.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had such a great time! It was nice getting to spend some talking with you, too. ^_^ Good times indeed!

Does it make you angry that someone stole your work? I'd be furious. : /

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

I would very much like to spend some time talking with you, later. I hate bars because it's impossible to have a conversation.

They didn't actually steal my work, they just reproduced it without my permission - I'm still cited as the author. The original article is on my personal website, for anyone to look at, along with four or five other articles I have written that might be useful for students to use as research. On the page listing the articles, I volunteer to help students if they have questions - more than a few have done so - and tell plagiarists to clear off.

I think they owe me a free copy of the magazine, at least, and I will ask for one. But meanwhile the error is in the article - I guess no one has ever noticed it but me. Another private joke.

[alexandra-art.livejournal.com]

That is great about the error to foil plagiarists, and happy belated birthday. ;D

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Thank you!