A new #PortsmouthLOVE Letter hit 71 inboxes this morning! That’s more than triple the audience of the first one (which was 22), which just goes to show that spreading #PortsmouthLOVE is the cool thing to do.
Read it here.
Since this is entirely a fun project for me, done on my own time and for my own amusement, I don’t have a proofreader other than my eyes at whatever hour I end up finishing up the thing (thus far that hour has been 1am-ish Monday night or 7:30ish the next morning, both equally terrible times for the proofreading part of my brain). Hence a super fun typo in the subject line.
Here’s what I MEANT for it to say:
Erroneous Comedy, Poetic Cemeteries, and Filthy North Church.
But here’s what it said:
Erroneous Comedy, Poetic Cemeteries, and Flithy North Church.
Flithy! Teehee! What a fun word. Once Kathleen alerted me to the mixup, I decided to Google it just to see if it meant something terrible I was unaware of. [pullquote cite=”Urban Dictionary” type=”left, right”]Flithy: Refers to the beats in a Dubstep tune. A dirty, indiscriminate, array of dubstep beats which in turn force the listeners to engage in reckless drug taking and overall euphoria; The way people in Seattle say awesome, cool, nice, interesting or extraordinary.[/pullquote]Check out the definition from Urban Dictionary: Refers to the beats in a Dubstep tune. A dirty, indiscriminate, array of dubstep beats which in turn force the listeners to engage in reckless drug taking and overall euphoria; The way people in Seattle say awesome, cool, nice, interesting or extraordinary.
So basically, I was calling the North Church fly, hip, rad, sick, ill, tubular, the bomb, psychedlic… and also euphoria inducing.
I stand by that typo. Though unintentional, it does describe the North Church as an icon much better than “flithy,” however dirty and grimy and pigeon-poo-covered it used to be.
You stay flithy, Portsmouth.
