tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post5695798726411093097..comments2024-03-28T06:56:11.914-05:00Comments on Jackson Jambalaya: Don't be quotin' no FaulknerKingfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06184990110961727404noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-74641197766411636422013-01-02T11:10:18.689-06:002013-01-02T11:10:18.689-06:00This reminds me of the lawsuit MLK's kids file...This reminds me of the lawsuit MLK's kids filed against Howard B. Load of crap. <br /><br />And the comment you brought over here--that writer did a fantastic job, giggled through it and all of the Faulkner references. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-9699326518851332142013-01-01T09:05:01.950-06:002013-01-01T09:05:01.950-06:00*Giggle* and big eye-roll, my first of 2013! The ...*Giggle* and big eye-roll, my first of 2013! The Faulkner Lit-ah-rahhhh-ry Society should feel pretty sheepish about this idiotic suit.<br /><br />What's up next, o litigious ones? Shall God sue when the Bible is misquoted? Shakespeare takes a regular beatin' in the misquote department, as does Twain, as does just about every author famous enough to have had his or her words enter the collective consciousness of even the unlettered masses.<br /><br />I was behind two gum-snappin' trailer-park-type gals in Kroger the other day, and one was loudly complaining that her boyfriend thinks she's CHEATIN'. "It's just all a bunch of ado about nothin'," she whined. I shoulda taken her name and reported her, in case the Shakespeare Literary Society wants to sue the security-camera company for recording her...<br /><br />Thank Providence that my novel, *Annals of Ballitore*, is too obscure for anybody to pirate!mary leadbeaternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2447438783001404385.post-78603383584049720392012-12-31T12:37:46.824-06:002012-12-31T12:37:46.824-06:00"Local Butler Snow attorney and film critic t..."Local Butler Snow attorney and film critic took time from attacking Belhaven restaurants to represent Sony. "<br /><br />Funny - did she defend her employer when they brazenly violated Ridgeland's code restrictions on height of new construction?<br /><br />Seriously, does Faukner's daughter have any clue what the meaning of "fair use" is? To cite a quotation, accurately attributing the nine word snippet to the original author, as a passing quote in conversation, is not the same as wholesale printing of copyrighted novels and selling them on the black market. Sheeesh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com