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4:48pm: Lee Goldberg: I Didn't Do It For the Money!
Over at Reason Magazine, Cathy Young has written an article about fan fiction in which she talks about the usual things, Shakespeare, the Internet, etc... and Lee Goldberg. Namely, that he only wrote that Monk tie-in for the money:

The vehemently anti-fanfic writer Lee Goldberg, who blogs at leegoldberg.com, is the author of several authorized novels based on the TV shows Monk and  Diagnosis Murder—a contradiction he defends on the grounds that he does it only for the money.

Lee was apparently on vacation, far away from Google, which is why it took him a while to respond:

( She has no journalistic integrity! So there! )

Young posts an answer to Goldberg and still misses the point:

( You totally DID do it for the money! And you use too many italics! So there! )

Lee is not pleased and his cooler brother Tod steps in to defend him, calling everybody "fucktards" and making fun of Young's Xena fanfic:

( Yeah, well, people who write sucky fic should not be allowed to make fun of my brother! )

I'll be in the corner, curled in fetal position, muttering about adult behaviour.

10:46pm: So Britney Spears shaved her head. CNN couldn't get enough of it, and of course, neither could the folks at ONTD.

Then jrexasaurus chimes in with this news: "I spoke with my relative who works at CSMS. Apparently Britney was checked in late last night by an older male and was diagnosed with something called 'Amphetamine psychosis'."

This is all dishy and good, but y'know, there's this little law in the US that goes by the acronym HIPAA, which spells out a lot of things about disclosing medical information. As in, don't.

Various posters weigh in on the subject. There's bonus sockpuppeting accusations. And oh gods, it'll take someone with a lot more patience than I have to wade through the rest.

ETA: Alas, the HIPAA wank post has been bahleeted. Meanwhile, however, a mouse in the comments has provided a link to ONTD's full photodocumentary of the head-shaving and the 105 pages of comments, plus a C&P of jrexasaurus's possibly sublegal dish. Warning: NSFW user icon.