In today’s NYT online, an article by Tom Zeller called In Internet Age, Writers Face Frontier Justice begins:

WRITING last Monday at SepiaMutiny.com, a Web log dedicated to the Southeast Asian [sic] diaspora, a user called RC declared that “there is no scientific way to compare works of literature.” [Link]

Hopefully, I don’t sound like the TOI quoting the Harvard Independent (not even Harvard’s main daily) quoting the TOI I believe this is the first time that I’ve seen the Grey Lady use Sepia Mutiny in a leadoff quote, with a link and everything. I was so excited that I forgave the author his confusion between “South Asian” and “SouthEast Asian” (to be fair, my Mom has been known to do that too …)

SM is quoted again in the middle of the article, with the quote taking up the entire fifth paragraph:

“Viswanathan might have plagiarism issues with more than McCafferty’s books,” wrote Janak Ramakrishnan, another blogger [sic] at Sepia Mutiny. Mr. Ramakrishnan had noticed a similarity between pious aphorisms scribbled onto posters by a character in Ms. Viswanathan’s book (“If from drink you get your thrill, take precaution, write your will” and “All the dangerous drug abusers end up safe as total losers”) and passages from the 1990 book “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” by Salman Rushdie. A chapter titled “The Mail Coach” in Mr. Rushdie’s book depicts a series of rhyming road signs, including two that read, “If from speed you get your thrill, take precaution, make your will” and “All the dangerous overtakers end up safe at the undertaker’s.” [Link]

Again, I was so excited about the extended quote that I forgave the author his confusion between bloggers (those on the masthead) and commenters - the rest of the mutiny family writing large. As a matter of fact, I think this is the first time I’ve seen SM quoted by the MSM in a situation where all of the quotes were taken from readers, and none from the MastheadMutineers. As all of you out there in cyberia know, it takes a village to raze a topic, and so I wanted to say thank you to you all. Without your efforts the Mutiny would literally not have been quoted.