Blue Owl Brewing
The Discreet Charm of the …
RECEIVED Wed., May 16, 2012
Dear Editor,
I was disappointed to see a commonly misspelled word (discreet) misspelled in the article “Pressing the Flesh” [Screens] from the May 11 issue. When I saw it in the same article a second time, I threw the paper down and decided to write to the editor for the first time ever. It has been corrected in the online edition, so it's like it didn't happen, right? It's almost as if I weren't reading an embarrassing and desperate Casual Encounters personals ad. But I kind of still feel like I did, because every other time I have seen that word erroneously spelled that way, it was written by someone who wanted an encounter that no one would find out about, and the mistake, for me, made the person's ad even sadder and creepier than it already was. Even though that misspelling was corrected, I was unable to resist writing to you when I was smacked in the face by this one on your front page: "LET'S DO THIS: SPIRTUALIZED at Emo's East." Spirtualized? Come on!
I was disappointed to see a commonly misspelled word (discreet) misspelled in the article “Pressing the Flesh” [Screens] from the May 11 issue. When I saw it in the same article a second time, I threw the paper down and decided to write to the editor for the first time ever. It has been corrected in the online edition, so it's like it didn't happen, right? It's almost as if I weren't reading an embarrassing and desperate Casual Encounters personals ad. But I kind of still feel like I did, because every other time I have seen that word erroneously spelled that way, it was written by someone who wanted an encounter that no one would find out about, and the mistake, for me, made the person's ad even sadder and creepier than it already was. Even though that misspelling was corrected, I was unable to resist writing to you when I was smacked in the face by this one on your front page: "LET'S DO THIS: SPIRTUALIZED at Emo's East." Spirtualized? Come on!
Katherine McNevins
