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 Yesterday, I noted that I wasn’t feeling much, if any, schadenfreude over the resignation and coming jailing of Rick Mariano. Well I’ve come to tell youse all today with a simple retort: Fuck that.
You see, this morning we’re feeling so much schadenfreude we’re speaking in the third person and we’ve copied the word “schadenfreude” so we can keep using it over and over without accidentally spelling it wrong. Schadenfreude, schadenfreude, schadenfreude. See how fun it is?
Oh, so why are we feeling this way? Two things, mainly. First is a national story, one you may have heard about. Harvard sophomore — and we’re going to have to be copying and pasting this too — Kaavya Viswanathan’s first novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life (which she got a $500,000 advance for), happened to not be entirely her work. Specifically, she seemed to have copied passages from two works, Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings, by Megan McCaffrey McCafferty.
Of course, then she came out and said she merely “internalized” the earlier novels. Oh, sure. That’s it.
After that lame-o non-apology, she can only get into more trouble now. Hence the extreme schadenfreude we’re feeling today.
The other story we’re feeling kind of happy about today is that of Devonzo Dawson, who was arrested yesterday. He was arrested for, oh, telling his daughter that she didn’t see anything right before she went to the witness stand.
And not only is that witness intimidation, that’s bold witness intimidation. And really effing stupid witness intimidation. And we happen to think it’s kind of funny he got arrested. And we’re feeling a lot of schadenfreude today.
Ahh, that felt good.
Student’s Novel Faces Plagiarism Controversy [Harvard Crimson]
After duplicated words, words of apology [Boston Globe]
Witness’ father is charged over her recanting [Inky]
Yesterday: Denoument: Rick Mariano
March 8: Stop snitchin’: The saga continues
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