As you readers know, we’ve got mixed feelings about the Review-Journal’s Corey Levitan, author of the weekly "Fear and Loafing" column in which he — over and over and over again — writes the same story about doing various jobs, usually badly. (He’s even got a website dedicated to it.)

On the one hand, we’ve said it’s more interesting than the usual stuff that runs in the R-J’s sorry Living section. (Damning with faint praise to be sure, because that bar is so low it’s actually subterranean.)

But on the other hand, we’ve also said it’s become tiresome, repetitive and too much a vehicle for Levitan’s obviously outsize ego. (Then again, it’s not like he’s the only one.) But he is the only one we know of who compares himself to Hunter S. Thompson or George Costanza in that self-deprecating way that all true egoists employ to mask their rampaging self-love.

Now, it’s not like Levitan came up with the idea, although he’s been doing even before he arrived at the R-J in 2005. Other journalists have broken this well-trod ground long before Levitan started hamming it up.

But to hear Levitan tell it, he was the original person to steal the idea and those bastards at the Los Angeles Times are stealing his theft of the idea.

And check out the Times reporter’s reply on L.A. Observed, a blog about media in the city of angels.

We’re really not sure where to go with this one. It appears that Levitan is right: He was doing this long before the Times did it. Congratulations. You’re the man. But, why would a person want credit so badly he’d go on an e-mailing rampage, when the thing he wants credit for isn’t exactly fresh? It’s like demanding that people recognize you were the one who created the macarena. Sure, you were the first. But the macarena was lame even when it was in vogue.

Anyway, we have good reason to believe that Levitan is most happy when people are typing his name, regardless of what adjectives they type in front of it. So we’ll stop now, and let Levitan get back to the ultimate post-ironic "Fear and Loafing" column: His daily journalism gig at the R-J.