Ich träumte von bunten Blumen, so wie sie wohl blühen im Mai

[sovay]

My flash "Lying-In" has been accepted by Scheherezade's Bequest.

Today was infinitely improved from the previous by thomasfreund, who brought over the newly released DVD of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears' Winterreise (1970), abstractly staged for the BBC and—impressively—even bleaker and more alien than their justifiably famous 1963 recording. Also, awesome. Fortunately a studio concert with a selection of folksongs (some of them, as Tom pointed out, still in manuscript form in 1964) is also included on the disc, so as not to provoke suicide, even in eighty-degree summer. In which I then mowed the lawn. That was not such an improvement.

There will be further content when I have slept enough to arrange some.

ETA: What the fuck barbeque?

Comments

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the acceptance.

The Britten and Pears DVD sounds lovely. As mowing the lawn does not.

I hope you have slept well.

ETA: What the fuck barbeque?

Good Lord, I have no idea. But that is truly bizarre. Someone has set up a blogspot blog in your name? Why?

I don't know how I could help, since tracking this individual down and calling them out is not an option, but you've got my sympathy. And if you can think of a way (mass emailed protests demanding a takedown?) you need only ask.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall the current law as applied to professional authors (YOU) is that no one can cybersquat a domain in your name. It doesn't take much to stretch this to a blog using your name without your permission.

First, check with the Author's Guild or Writers' Union for precedents. I know they exist.

Then, contact the hosting service with a polite but firm letter requesting that this blog be taken down.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I watched that 1970 Winterreise when it was first transmitted. I still remember Pears staggering about with his hair all wild.

Pears was an old boy of my school. He came back one time to perform in a performance of Britten's St. Nicholas Cantata.

[jtglover.livejournal.com]

WTFBBQ indeed. Time to have a word with Blogger, I'd say.

[sovay]

I seem to recall the current law as applied to professional authors (YOU) is that no one can cybersquat a domain in your name. It doesn't take much to stretch this to a blog using your name without your permission.

Thank you. I will let you know what happens.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Blogger's own policy forbids impersonation. The writer doesn't appear to be intentionally impersonating you, but the fact that he's registered your name as a blog and has tossed a little incomplete bibliography in there---when you own and maintain a website of your own, already, with complete information---hints at cybersquatting, not fanac.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

The sole content of the Blogger blog is your Wikipedia entry. So it's pure cybersquatting. Wikipedia links to your LJ page, so it's deliberate, not accidental.

Since it's your actual, legal name, it's arguably impersonation. However, Blogger being owned by Google, they may have a similar attitude to customer service. In which case I'd suggest checking on the precedents for cybersquatting authors' names (I *think* this was a recent court ruling that I read about in an Authors Guild newsletter) and escalating as necessary. The EFF probably has something on it also.

I notice that your LJ is your only website; if you have not bought your own-name domain, you probably should, and just put a plain-text resume page up there with recent pubs, nominations, and so on. Links to on-line work helpful but not required. Shop around, a domain registration shouldn't cost more than a couple bucks a year.

[sovay]

I have submitted a formal report to Blogger on the chance that the problem is so easily dealt with. I will research the rest. Thank you again.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I have submitted a formal report to Blogger on the chance that the problem is so easily dealt with.

I hope it is.

Good luck!