This week was not very eventful. I have been bad about staying up to date with the flogs, so that is my main failure. I am catching up with them now, and I should only have two more until I am fully caught up. The subject matter this week was interesting and engaging, and I had no problem reading the comic or the other readings. I will admit that I initially did not get that Lethem was plagiarizing other authors until I got to the end where he admitted it. Ever since our classes this week, I have been thinking a lot about music that sounds like other music. Each time I listen to a song I can’t stop thinking, “what do I know that sounds just like this?” I wouldn’t call this a fail, but I’m having a hard time completely agreeing that you can steal music. The comic really puts it into perspective that initially, music was not seen as property. I completely understand that stealing things is wrong, but who are we to own music? If nothing is original, how can anyone own anything? Kind of like how I can’t believe Radiohead sued Lana Del Ray over a melody they ALSO stole. It seems disingenuous to do something like that. Is anything ever yours and only yours?