R.I.P., Herbert Muschamp, the baffling former New York Times architecture critic.

When I die, I hope my death isn’t announced by my lawyer.

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Update: Okay, this is interesting. I wrote about Muschamp once. If you google his name, my post comes up on the first page of results.

My post includes a quote from a Muschamp piece. And Nicolai Ouroussoff’s obituary of Muschamp in the Times includes the exact same quote.

The obituary was posted on the New York Times website at 1:42 p.m. In my website stats, I have two hits from an IP address belonging to the New York Times. Both hits were from Google searches for “Herbert Muschamp,” one at 12:29 p.m. and the other at 12:58 p.m., before the obituary was posted online.

I think Ouroussoff used my blog to research the obituary!

How frickin’ cool.