As promised, here follows Kristian Laliberte’s response to the recent claims made by writer-critic Ana Finel Honigman. (In short, Ms. Honigman told The Daily Transom that Mr. Laliberte heavily borrowed language from her yet-unpublished Tank Magazine article on FameTheory, an artist collective, to craft his press release for FameGame.com, a social ranking Web site.)

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Last week, The Daily Transom posted an e-mail we received from party boi Kristian Laliberte. Meaning to promote a forthcoming Web site, called FameGame.com (à la SocialiteRank.com), he heralded its ability to assess “the tangible, actual, and measurable results of a person’s fame.” At the time, we remarked on the impressive, colorful tapestry of language Mr. Laliberte had so expertly loomed, seemingly for our pleasure.

Since then, our delight has been felled like a rotting tree. Ana Finel Honigman, a broadly-published New York and London-based critic and journalist, wrote us to say that "this Kristian Laliberte guy is clearly a monkey."

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