Full Of Nuts

Deadline Hollywood has become a top online source of show biz information, but its editing leaves something to be desired.  For instance, a piece on limited releases this weekend starts thus:

The weekend is chalk full of new Specialty releases, though most will likely be low performers in terms of dollars at the box office.

"Chalk full"? The weekend will be full of chalk?  My guess is writer Brian Brooks liked the phrase and figured he knew there was a word "chalk" but had never heard of "chock" so the former must be correct.

It's simple--if you don't know how to spell it, look it up.  If you're too lazy, try another phrase.  Is it that hard? (Though for all I know, he wrote chock and his spell check program told him to go with chalk.)

And who knows? Maybe in ten years this will be the correct spelling.  "Straightjacket" seems to be catching on, so why shouldn't we spell words in ways that seem familiar to us?  I once had a friend who wrote "fullproof" for "foolproof" and for all I know that'll be okay soon.