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This week's NYT xword times.

Monday 4:58
Tuesday 8:14
Wednesday 10:41 (odd puzzle)
Thursday 20:54 (difficult!)
Friday 15:10 (woo)
Saturday 15:02 (surprisingly easy)
Sunday 26:07 (fun)

Meet in the Language, Literature, and History section — the left wing as you enter, straight back.

Librarian Emily is our host!

Say hi. Take an optional group photo. Read for an hour—any kind of book will do! Stay and chat, keep reading, or call it a night!

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Rewatched the latest South Park episode. It wasn't as biting as the rest of this season, but I was also distracted Wednesday night (and extremely tired). This time I picked up a few more jokes and continued to laugh at the depiction of JD Vance as Tattoo from Fantasy Island. A good watch, again.

I admit I've tried to listen to the album but haven't made it all the way through after four tries. Ugh.

Sarah McLachlan's performance of "Better Broken" on Kimmel Tuesday night was soooo much better than the album version. On Kimmel, she performed solo with just a piano. The album track is backed (bafflingly) by a weird electronic drum loop that serves the song not at all.

Could we please not discover radioactive shrimp at Walmart on nights when Colbert is dark?

_Cover Yo' Azz!_ is the new covers album from Cowboy Mouth. While it's missing the energy of Mouth's best studio releases, it's as heartfelt and uplifting as all their work. Highlight is the closer, a Hootie and the Blowfish tune I'd never heard, "City by a River."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRI7...

whew. ran back to my computer to see if i typed this from my book club account @silentbookclubhnl.bsky.social. thank goodness i didn't.

okay don't think poorly of me, but i have like $90 in flex money to burn before june 30 and i've considered manifesting the 365 days i wish to have by spending it all on condoms.

i'm joking, but also not really. :s

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Puzzle #739
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So annoying. I knew that second row but wasn't paying attention.

Wednesday (this was fun)
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Tuesday
Puzzle #737
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Monday
Puzzle #736
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Sunday. Ugh.
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Saturday. Can't win 'em all.
Puzzle #734
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Puzzle #733
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Wednesday
Archive June 11, 2025
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Thursday
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gack. i KNEW the categories and still screwed this up.
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Puzzle #730
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Sunday:
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Puzzle #728
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Monday:
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that was less than spur.

Wow. The purple was legitimately the first I got. Blue was DIFFICULT. Didn't know it until I eliminated the green.

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Puzzle #726
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Puzzle #725
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Puzzle #724
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Woo that purple category! :) OF COURSE.

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Puzzle #723
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i love it when i get the purples first.

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Puzzle #719
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i’m down 16 pounds in 30 days.

Two gray and white bunnies snuggle on green grass, surrounded by a wire fence.

Casablanca, The Breakfast Club, Sideways, Beauty and the Beast, Notting Hill, Field of Dreams, Groundhog Day, High Fidelity, Stranger than Fiction, Megane.

#10FilmsToKnowMe:

sorry to hear it. what did you do to get out of it?

I know this is just from stress and extreme sleep deprivation, but boy am I freaking moody this evening. And tense.

Submitted my entry to the #WritingBattle spring microfiction challenge. My first time competing with this organization. I wouldn't call it FUN because writing is torture, but it was about as fun as could be, I think. :) Feel like there are no stakes except the new experience.

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You know, most of the time, people say to me, "I saw this terrible writing and it reminded me of you!" So I totally appreciate it when, at moments like this, people see something smart and say it reminded me of them. :) So thank you!