Trouble a Foot

In July 2019, I was making outside rounds at the ODOT building and noticed these sock lying against the curb.

TWO MONTHS LATER, in September, the socks were still there.  So I took them home.  I shook the loose grass clippings and dirt out, and washed 'em.

What do you think?

PS they lasted a couple of months of once-a-week wearings before going threadbare.  Goodbye to these free-range argyle socks, and goodbye to this year's APRIL FOOLISHNESS!

See you Monday, May 2nd, for the commencement of this year's MUSICAL MONTH OF MAY!

More Typos I Have Known

            On page 308 of Gavriel D Rosenfeld’s 2005 The World Hitler Never Made:  Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism, we have an interesting word division.

Don’t you agree that the correct division of “rightwing” should be “right” + “wing”? 

Not “rightw” + “ing.”

Macmillan’s 2013 New Critical Essays on HP Lovecraft is full of distressing mistakes.  In all but one mention, Poe’s middle name is misspelled as “Allen"—including the index! 

In fact, the very last word of the book is wrong.  The name of HPL’s mad musician Erich Zann is misspelled “Eric.”

            It’s furthermore pretty depressing to see the pathetic word division found on page 180.  I don’t think “cowritten” is supposed to be hyphenated at the “cow”!

While anybody who's read our books from Jacobs/Brown knows that errors are inevitable, we avoid most of these types of errors by the simple cheat of NOT HYPHENATING.  Sneaky, huh?

See you Thursday for the last entry in this year's APRIL FOLLISHNESS.  You'll agree that something's a foot!