They've done it again.

Entertainment Weekly has stolen from me before (click here to see how they borrowed liberally from my review of Shawn of the Dead), but this time they have outdone themselves. In the current issue of their esteemed magazine (I have been a subscriber since Color Me Badd was on the cover) Leah Greenblatt has a piece on Oscar worthy music. I was enjoying the article when towards the end I spied an interesting quote. When weighing the award potential of the songs from Walk Hard, the author states that the numbers are, "hardly more than YouTube fun."

Um, hello. As my faithful readers will recall my review of Walk Hard in which I said that a, "great 12 minute version of the film [should be made] to be devoured on YouTube." My words were published on January 3rd, which was apparently just enough time for them to be bandied about the internet and thrown onto the glossy pages of EW.
I have this to say to Leah Greenblatt: shame on you. I am sure you will chalk this up to a case of great minds thinking alike. While I will not argue with your assessment of my mental ability, I will say this is all a bit too coincidental. I also find it convenient that your, or should I say "our", article is nowhere to be found on the EW website. Do you think that just because you are big time PAID entertainment writer who writes in a REAL magazine with a readership that is larger than THIRTY that you can continue to mine my intellectual gold mine? I say nay to that. In fact, I am considering going on strike if I do not receive residual compensation for my online content which has been repeatedly pilfered for profit. I will no longer act as the entertainment zeigeist for free. Now, as far as how I can be compensated, I would gladly accept a regular column in Entertainment Weekly. In the event that there are no positions currently available I would take an EW fanny pack or any back issues with feature stories on Tim Allen in the interim.

If my demands are not heard I am sure my readers will gladly cancel their subscriptions. If they don't have subscriptions I am sure that they will purchase subscriptions and then immediatly cancel them. That is how dedicated they are.