Dwell Magazine and Their Editorial Love of Puns

Thu 08/28/08

“As a longtime subscriber and admirer of Dwell, I have become increasingly annoyed by your recent habit of titling articles with not-so-very-clever puns. I think a well-placed, clever pun is a great thing. However, most of yours are simply groaners. Please, quit trying so hard to be witty and go back to writing meaningful and descriptive titles for your articles.” — Jim Wright
The occasional pun is a great thing, but it’s gotten to the point where multiple articles an issue are named something inane like “Outback Staked House”. I’m glad someone finally called them out on it, and even more glad they published the complaint in the Letters section of the Sept. ’08 issue — even if their response was an intentional pun on Wright’s name (wink, wink, nudge).

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  1. Ben

    HA! I’m so glad to hear someone ELSE complain about this. I too wrote a letter to the editor… (copy/paste)….

    “1) Can you please stop it with the cutesy ironic headlines? It’s getting laughable. “Bay Wash”?? Come on. You can’t do better than that? I counted 8 of these silly headlines in the latest issue alone. It’s really getting old….

    It really has gotten to be a bit ridiculous. Thanks for (again) calling them out. Now I need to go see if my letter made it into an issue… I’m sure it didn’t… :-)

    Thu 08/28/08 at 1:16 pm

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