02.20.10
Sharin’ the crazy
Wow, I haven’t posted here in a long time O_O
Anyway, I found this link on Twitter this morning via one of Neil Gaiman’s tweets and had to share. Click here to read the article.
It’s not great because of yet another person (people, in this case) accusing J.K. Rowling of stealing ideas, which in and of itself is kind of ridiculous, as is pointed out in the article. It’s great because of the excerpts from the poor guy’s book. Check this out:
In Willy’s laboratory, Wizard Cricket demonstrated how a mixture’ of grounded nicket paste and paleberry juice applied gently on the eyebrows of an Aussie guinea pig would bring a marked change of appearance. Willy suffered the mixture and clumsily knocked the contents of the texture into the berry juice paste and ! The guinea pig became a winking wongo – a wonderful little chap, a cousin to the Dutch Tree Squirrels.
OMG! It reads like a Monty Python sketch, y’all! Seriously, can’t you just hear Eric Idle’s voice there? LOLOL!
Anyway, I just had to share that. TOO funny. Since this poor writer died a long time ago, I like to think that he — being an author himself, albeit not as skilled as J.K. — would have better sense than his relatives and not try to follow those dollar signs. I kind of hate that his family is trying to use him for their own profit like this.