Comments on: Big Plagiarist Mark

By: Alexandra Erin

Alexandra Erin — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:31:14 +0000

Oh, he copied a blog post and forgot to link back. How nice of him to come slightly less dirty.

And look, comments are closed.

By: kateharding

kateharding — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:18:55 +0000

Hi, Emily! Glad to see you’re still around!

By: Deniselle

Deniselle — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:28:31 +0000

He’s ba-ack! And he’s sort of partially admitting to being a plagiarist:

http://bigboymark.com/?p=45

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:45:47 +0000

Hi!

I’m Emily, one of the writers of Fatty Mcblog. Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention. I’m in utter shock. Mostly because who would take the time to rip off a fat blog written by two girls and manipulate it to look like a man wrote it, but also because, well, that’s mostly the reason.

Besides the site being down, is there anything else happening to this disgusting man?

Oh, and if that guy is reading this…LOSING YOUR WEIGHT WATCHER BOOKLET IS MESSED UP AND I AM NOT A FREAK FOR FREAKING OUT.

Thank you.

By: thepoliticalcat

thepoliticalcat — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:10:15 +0000

Of course, the reason I even came here at all was to whine about how the same thing is happening to me. People are stealing my posts, and putting them on their own blogs without attribution.

By: thepoliticalcat

thepoliticalcat — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:09:00 +0000

Hey, there you are! I had you bookmarked ages ago, and then Firefox decided to eat my bookmarks and because this is the result of becoming overly dependent on technology, I had quite forgotten your name. I'm so glad to find you again. Hope your efforts to parlay blogging into a paying gig worked out? In any event, I have now bookmarked and blogrolled you. Found you through PhysioProf, thanks to a commenter named Nan.

By: Alexandra Erin

Alexandra Erin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:50:29 +0000

I’m going to second what Kate said… money isn’t a necessary motivator for art, it’s an enabler of it.

And just like we can’t look at our lives and go, “Well, I can find an hour to get to the gym every day so why can’t everybody?” or “I work two jobs and still have time to cook a healthy meal from whole foods so why can’t everybody?”, we also can’t look at the artist who has the time, space, and peace of mind to create sculptures on the side of their busy day job and go, “Why can’t everybody do that?”

Everybody’s circumstances are different. If your circumstances don’t allow you to create, you need to have the power to change them, and in this life, that so often comes down to financial power.

By: Deniselle

Deniselle — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:51:25 +0000

He said himself in a blog – which I believe he wrote himself because it was so poor – that he doesn’t call his page a “fat acceptance page”, because quote unquote, “I don’t support all of their motives”. I’m sure he means discussing the issue seriously and/or considering health, because the blog posts he wrote himself were all blabla junk food, no exercise, stupid fat jokes at my own expense because I bring laughter to the world!

I have a lot more to say about this, but I think I’ll turn it into a blog entry instead of a ten-paragraph rant here.

By: kateharding

kateharding — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:07:45 +0000

And the idea that money is a necessary motivator for artists to do art? No. Artists have this unyielding urge to make art. They should be paid well, but even if they aren’t, they’ll still make art - not the same art at the same rate, but they’ll create nonetheless. Not to beat a dead horse (WHAP!), but the urge to make art and the ability to make art are two very different things. I know plenty of gen-yoo-wine artistes who are so exhausted after taking care of the kids and working the job that pays the bills, they forget about their unyielding urges to eat, let alone make art. Yes, they do ultimately make a different kind of art at a different rate. The kind is "frustratingly incomplete," and the rate is "fucking slow." And these are talented, driven people. So it's all well and good to say that a real artist will make art under any circumstances, but those who are compensated for it have a hell of a lot more freedom to explore their potential.

By: DowntownVenus

DowntownVenus — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:46:11 +0000

“…the BIGBOYMARK name became more popular. The unprecedented internet success gave the name it’s legendary texture that it adheres today.”

Um, say whaaa? Legendary texture? That it adheres today? The only adhering legendary texture that applies to this moron is shit. And it’s going to stick for a long time, methinks.