Errors:
1. I was Editor-in-chief of Periphery for Drake University. My Art Director slipped a Summary of the journal into print with out telling me and the word student was spelled “sudent.” I still haven’t slept.
2. The Acme printers made and error in publication on the Essay titled “Four Foot Pizza.” Towards the end of the story there is: “On the on the box.” Should just have been “on the box.” Lesson, do everything yourself.
3. I was in New Hampton, Iowa, with my girlfriend over the weekend and the Waterloo paper had an opinion section. The column was a man discussing Facebook and the document was peppered with omitted words. I wasn’t sure how to read his article after I saw these errors, whether it happened to be the Editor of the opinion section (likely) or the writer himself, it was a nuisance in the body of work I was holding. Since I barely remember the article, it’s likely that I didn’t finish the piece because of this heedlessness.
4. Driving home from New Hampton, my girlfriend said that I could lay down. And I corrected her: “You mean lie…” She gripped the wheel tightly.
5. A friend of mine called me on the telephone to explain to me about how a girl/poet wrote him a note of the dream-dote to: Inamorato.
“To be watched from a distance...the fog of mystery shield the hopeful eyes on the other side of the glass. Mocking my imprisonment or playfully calling me away?
Dusk's mist brings an answer.
A protected glance or three give way to easy smiles and witty banter. "Permission to speak?" he asks, silencing her giddy babble.
A touch...accidental? Not after the seventeenth time. Awkward avoidance falls captive to comfort and a fit is established, intertwined and balanced.
Beauty may belong to the beholder, but behold how his eyes carry it for her. Gentlemanly, to say the least.
A hug goodbye, seemingly restrictive for the comfort called throughout the evening. With eyes searching for a hint of more, arms protect that which seems to be dangerously close to abandon.
A portal opened, but shut? I know not.”
After reading this I decided to explain to my friend that she’s a bad poet, that even Pablo Neruda would think so, that the saddest thing is a lonely train standing alone in the rain, next is a bad poet in love. He agreed and said, “she should have just said, I like figs and architecture.” I said that was exactly right.
6. Over the weekend a Philosophy student tried to quote John Paul Sartre: “The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our pride.” When the real sentence is: “The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.” I proudly walked over to him and the three people he was attempting to impress, and told them what the actual quote was. Everyone glared at me like I was the poorest man on earth.
7. I went to Zanzibar’s on Ingersoll and found a stack of charcoal drawings in a trash bin. There was a man inside the café that the workers call “Double Latté Mike.” Immediately I noticed one of the workers show a sullen countenance. I asked her, “Belle, are you unwell?” She explained that it was her day to clean the bathroom, and that Double Latté Mike “shits all over the place in there.” I said, “How do you deal with that?” She said, “I use lots of Febreezio.” I noted the proper way of spelling the word Febreze. Then I ran out of that place with the charcoal drawings.
I was looking through the Working With Words book… In the text they have a “Confusing Word” section. In there they have this: “aesthetic artistic.” I consider this wrong. The word aesthetic according to the Oxford Dictionary (which everyone should use) details the word as meaning: aesthetic |esˈθetik| (also esthetic)
adjective
concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty : the pictures give great aesthetic pleasure.
• giving or designed to give pleasure through beauty; of pleasing appearance.
noun [in sing. ]
a set of principles underlying and guiding the work of a particular artist or artistic movement : the Cubist aesthetic.
DERIVATIVES
aesthetically |-ik(ə)lē| |ɛsˈθɛdək(ə)li| |əsˈθɛdək(ə)li| adverb : [as submodifier ] an aesthetically pleasing color combination.ORIGIN late 18th cent. (in the sense [relating to perception by the senses] ): from Greek aisthētikos, from aisthēta ‘perceptible things,’ from aisthesthai ‘perceive.’ The sense [concerned with beauty] was coined in German in the mid 18th cent. and adopted into English in the early 19th cent., but its use was controversial until late in the century.
Aesthetic does not mean artistic.
8. A spokes person for the Bilingual Press announced this weekend that his health’s been well. I thought of his health being good, soon realizing that neither of those sentences should ever be used.
9. The image in this post of errors has many points of incoherence. First, the “pants butts,” Is an oddity.
10. Important is spelled wrong “im portent.”
11. The next photo: “armshelf” is not a word. Arm-shelf.
