Are you kiddin' me?

Last night I ran across an article about mid-century furniture on one of those post-it-yourself sites that is meant to resemble a professionally-written online encyclopedia. Of course, professionally-written online encyclopedia may, in and of itself, be a contradiction in terms we can discuss at a later date.

You know the kind of site I mean. The "research optional" type that allows anybody with a computer to contribute information, which is henceforth purported to be ironclad fact. At the risk of sounding like a fussy old retired teacher (which has been a topic of some discussion lately and which I'm really not...the fussy part, I mean), I had to share a quote with you. The sentence was so bad that at first I thought it was a joke...but no.

Those who earn the credit of defining these streamlined lines are designers like Charles Eames, Euro Saarinen, Anne Jacobsen, and Miles van der Rone. (Note: Italics are mine.)

Nothing like getting three names out of four wrong to inspire confidence in the rest of the article...but then who wants to write for a site with a bunch of demanding editors? They can be such killjoys, expecting you to know something about a topic and come up with all those facts!

Only moments before, I had told someone that I'd thrown away all my red pens from my teaching days...but Miles van der Rone?   Really?   That was enough to make me want to go out and buy new ones!

It also made me realize how glad I am that I found you fellow mid-century bloggers, whose posts I read with such great pleasure every day. You are spectacularly knowledgeable and put hours of creative effort into your writing and your photography. Thanks for inspiring me.

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