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zindalite becomes monthly magazine

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Saturday, July 19 2008, 21:18:25 (CEST)
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...either Wellfed is getting tired or bored...or there's not many more ways to bitch that you can make a magazine out of. Not only that but even after I graciously pointed out a serious typo that would have been so easy to fix, they've still got it up there...which I find very typical of "Assyrian pride". Their pride is in how much bullshit they cna keep afloat...how often they can repeat how great they are and what is owed to them as a result...but leave it up to them to earn their own pride, and they could care.

The front page of this current edition is a supposed tribute to a "great poet" who died recently...and to show us all just how great he was they quote some lines from what must be his greatest poem...except that they murder the meaning and turn it into a joke...when they're thinking they're expressing "pride"...which is EXACTLY what these proud Assyrians do; make fools of themselves while they THINK they're expressing pride(look at Minime)...to whit;

“Leaving a world too old to name
and too undying to forsake
I flew the cold, expensive sea
toward Columbus’ mistake
where life could never be the same."

- Samuel Hazo

...we all make typos...and if it's in our own writing, so what? Have a good laugh and move on. But when you're commemorating your "great" poets and quoting their "great" poems...and you make a critical error...why the hell not admit that YOU fucked up, instead of leaving the poets lines fucked up?

..it is not an "expensive" sea. It's an expAnsive sea. Unless the poet was complaining about the lack of frequent-flier miles...hardly poetic. What would it have cost to make that one small change? We're not dealing with printed material when too late is indeed "too late"...this is electronic crap and can be cleaned up very easily. Why not do it?

...is there such a thing as "too great" to spell?

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