Dan Savage is a Rotten Plagiarist

Well, Dan Savage, whose work I worship in near-idolatrous fashion, took a nutty when somebody jokingly accused his paper of biting the cover of her book.

Thus ensuring, of course, that people like me, who had never even heard of the complainant (I think her name is Judy--she writes an advice column, apparently) got exposed to the complainant and her work.

I was wondering how I could score some free publicity by pissing off Dan Savage when I actually found that he'd made it incredibly easy!

So I'm calling you out, Savage, you thin-skinned plagiarist you, for what you wrote in last week's Savage Love column. : answering a woman who was angry about her boyfriend's desire to provide some DNA for a lesbian couple, you wrote: "and what if this lesbian couple had died in a car wreck after the child had been born? Would the child then come to live with you?"

OMG, Dan, you totally bit the plot of my award-winning novel Donorboy! I am shocked, shocked I say, that you blantantly stole my not at all contrived plot idea just for a sentence in your raunchy column without even linking to my book. And don't pretend you've never heard of me or my work--our essays appeared in the same anthology! Busted! You are a despicable, foul-mouthed plagiarist without an original idea in your head and a scrotum besides and I demand--demand, I say!--a public apology!

(or, failing that, could you write a long, link-filled blog entry about what a moron I am? Please?)