Does blogging mean never having to say you’re sorry?

Apparently. In some corners, it means never having to do your homework, either.

A review of a

song by the L.A. duo the Bird and the Bee by Michael Graham on the website Paper Thin

Walls last year went beyond mean-spirited. Graham imagines songwriter Inara George as

some kind of Hollywood princess who solicits help from her famous daddy to further her

music career:

So what does she do? Why, pick up her Sidekick III, text her dad
(Lowell George, he of Little Feat fame) for advice, pen a
tear-in-yr-latte lament to lost loves, record it with a bunch of her
hyper-connected friends (this is Los Angeles, after all) and then sit
back and watch the magic happen. Or maybe go shopping.

Poison

prose, huh? Except that Lowell George died in 1979.

Depite the fact that several commenters pointed out the egregious gaffe, the review

has remained intact since it was posted. As for George, she reacted with characteristic

aplomb. "I didn’t know what to do," she said of her decision to take the high

road and ignore the cheap shot. "It’s kind of sad, really."

||| After a couple performances at the Sundance Film Festival, the Bird and the Bee

return to L.A. for a show at the Troubadour on

Jan. 23, the day their self-titled album is released on Blue Note.