Monday 25 June 2007 @ 2:28 pm
Here’s the story… I get a Google News Alert regarding an “Evan Almighty” review that references “Dogma” in the Clarion Ledger, a newspaper in Mississippi. I give it a quick glance and discover this factually inaccurate piece of information in the opening paragraph…
Now, while it’s a common (albeit puzzling) mistake for people to associate that song with Alanis, anybody who’s been paying attention to music over the last decade knows that it’s Joan Osborne who sings “One of Us”, not Alanis Morissette. So since I’m helping, friendly guy, and since I have a passing familiarity with both Alanis and “Dogma”, I drop the author of the review – a one Anita Modak-Truran – the following email…
Nothing more, nothing less than that. I get the follwing email in return…
Now, while I’ve written for Rolling Stone, I’m not a Rolling Stone writer, y’know? But I know a thing or two about music. Still, I give the review author the benefit of the doubt and Google “alanis one of us” to see if, by chance, Ms. Morissette ever covered the song at a concert or something. I come up with no new information, so I write back to Anita…
At this point, I’ve included the Wikipedia page on the song as a reference point. Conversation over. Then I get this email…
Now I’m starting to fill with that feeling you get sometimes while playing poker: when you bet big because you’re sure you have the nuts, and then someone goes over the top at you, suddenly making you question whether or not you do, indeed, have nuts at all. So I look through all my Alanis rips, then hit iTunes just to confirm what I’m pretty sure I know – at which time, I write…
…which is met with this response…
At this point, I’m now 100% sure of my accuracy, so I bust with…
After three emails, she must sense my unwillingness to let it all go, so she writes…
So I go with…
And with that, victory (for what it’s worth) is mine…
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