(at least I'm in good company. Al Franken has called Rush Limbaugh a "big fat idiot" (or was it "big fat liar"??) and I have gone on record calling the 12 disciples "bumbling idiots," as some of their statements and their inability to not get Who Jesus was seems awfully dumb).
Here's the deal: two mistakes in some recent writing are staring at me with that taunting glare that says, "You are an idiot!" One is the description of Jon Foreman touring with an oboe player. What? An oboe player?! How did that get past me (once when I wrote it; and more than once when I proofed it)? I do know the difference between an oboe and a cello. Sometimes it can be tricky identifying a cello as opposed to a stand-up bass, but that's really a pretty easy one. Mistaking a woodwind from a string is absurd, though. I guess I had "oboe on the brain," which is an affliction parents get when their children play in the school band. This mistake has actually occured thrice:
once in print in the new May/June issue #131 in the "Live Report" on SXSW;
once again online in my blog report on SXSW;
and once again (I think) in an audio report I did with Doctor Tony Shore at SXSW, which we did for an upcoming HM Magazine Podcast.
That's ridiculous, but that's me.
I suck.
Another mistake involves one word, too. It's the word dancehall. I should not have left it in my P.O.D. review in the new/last CCM Magazine. I'm an idiot.
Oh well, now's the time on Sprockets we laugh.
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at April 25, 2008 11:05 AM