I was somewhat disturbed to find my name being taken in vain at Blogcritics today. Looking through my counter stats, I found a referral from Aaron Haspel's J.D. Salinger essay, where in turn I found the following comment:

So you've read Ian Hamilton's biography of Salinger, plagiarised a few lines and ideas and thrown it all together to make this little essay. At least Salinger was original.

This was signed by myself, or rather by someone posing as me. I've already informed Aaron of this and his response has been most gracious and understanding. Further, I'm taking this opportunity to publicly declare I did not post the above comment. I know next to nothing about Salinger, least of all the fact that someone called Ian Hamilton wrote a biography of him. Having never read a book I have never heard of, I am obviously not in any position to accuse someone of plagiarising it.

I've posted this at my own blog, and have also emailed Eric and Glenn about it, and am posting here to advise people that someone out there is playing silly buggers. I am not impressed by this episode at all and will not tolerate anyone else trying to pass themselves off as me for the purpose of creating strife.