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I take the newspaper puzzle #ScrabbleGrams and, after finding the day's four top scoring words, try to construct them into an amusing passage. On Sundays I construct a passage using a week's worth of #NYTSpellingBee pangrams.

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Photo of a penguin chick and the text "I was having trouble making a living as a PHOTOG (most of my pics were RUBBISH), but when I sold a cute pic of the bravest PENGUIN chick I was able to afford a BILEVEL house."

Photo of a penguin chick and the text "I was having trouble making a living as a PHOTOG (most of my pics were RUBBISH), but when I sold a cute pic of the bravest PENGUIN chick I was able to afford a BILEVEL house."

15.11.2025 13:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I was having trouble making a living as a PHOTOG (most of my pics were RUBBISH), but when I sold a cute pic of the bravest PENGUIN chick I was able to afford a BILEVEL house.

15.11.2025 13:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm so mad at my HUSBAND! He hired a drummer for our house to play a RIMSHOT every time he tells one of his dumb jokes. Money's tight and I asked him how he's planning to make the next PAYMENT. He just told another joke - what a COPOUT!

14.11.2025 13:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I wrote a manifesto arguing for a form of ANARCHY where we all live in communes and live off of BULGAR and what we can BOWHUNT. Good thing I used a PENNAME - turns out everyone hates BULGAR!

13.11.2025 12:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As a form of BRIBERY, I offered to show the magistrate a NIPPLE. He scoffed, "That won't work on me! I'm not FIFTEEN ANYMORE." But I noticed he squirmed a little.

12.11.2025 13:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I first record the sounds of nature: a gnatcatcher singing, a CATFISH wallowing in the mud at the bottom of a river, a FIGTREE growing. I then OVERDUB those with the sound of a PICKUP truck revving its engine, and I have the soundtrack for Koyaanisqatsi 2: Losing Hopi.

11.11.2025 13:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Grandpa accidentally brushes my phone off the counter, crawls down to get it, crushes it with his KNEECAP, THEREBY causing the phone's case to pancake and setting the LITHIUM-ion batteries on fire. Long pause. Grandpa says loudly, "Well, *that* wouldn't happen with our old ROTARY!"

10.11.2025 13:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I misread one set of letters in my early morning fog. Oops! Edited passage:

10.11.2025 13:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Grandpa accidentally brushes my phone off the counter, then crushes it with his cane, THEREBY causing the phone's case to PANCAKE and setting the LITHIUM-ion batteries on fire. Long pause. Grandpa says loudly, "Well, *that* wouldn't happen with our old ROTARY!"

10.11.2025 13:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The pilot was having fun with a FLOOZIE, a LIZARD, and 43 crickets in the COCKPIT of his Cessna, so the OUTCOME of the flight didn't look great.

07.11.2025 12:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Here's a LITMUS test for a potential employee at an organization: is its KINGPIN truly GHASTLY or merely BRUTISH?

06.11.2025 13:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cover of a Samurai Cats 2026 wall calendars featuring a big orange tabby in armor.

Cover of a Samurai Cats 2026 wall calendars featuring a big orange tabby in armor.

Cover of the Kama Sutra Sloths 2026 wall calendar, featuring two entwined sloths petting each otherโ€™s chins.

Cover of the Kama Sutra Sloths 2026 wall calendar, featuring two entwined sloths petting each otherโ€™s chins.

Back of the Samurai Cats 2026 wall calendars showing off thumbnails of 12 illustrated pages.

Back of the Samurai Cats 2026 wall calendars showing off thumbnails of 12 illustrated pages.

The August page of the Samurai Cats 2026 Wall Calendar, featuring a tuxedo cat in a blue robe tackling a golden retriever.

The August page of the Samurai Cats 2026 Wall Calendar, featuring a tuxedo cat in a blue robe tackling a golden retriever.

Hey itโ€™s gift-giving season, and one thing everyone needs every years is a new calendar. Buying these directly supports my art, as, frankly, if they stop commissioning these, a major chunk of income flies out the window.

B&N link: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/2026-samur...

05.11.2025 02:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"... you're fired."

05.11.2025 13:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Spanberger is just a COPYCAT - I already celebrated my election win last year with a SKYDIVE!"

"Huh, I hadn't heard about that. ANYWAY, no need to be UNCIVIL. This just shows what a great leader you are, sir!"

05.11.2025 13:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The KITSCH of your DAYWEAR is going to give me an ANGINA! Those parachute pants need a RIPCORD.

04.11.2025 13:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

At the bar:

"So there I was, in the battle DECAGON, with an angry BEEFALO. It charged and knocked off my hand..."

"I bet you any number of CORONAE that that never happened. Look, I can see both your hands right now!"

"... well it REGREW."

03.11.2025 15:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"My client didn't INCLUDE the ingredient in the baby FORMULA that starts infants TWITCHING. And he didn't MANHANDLE anyone, or if he did, he's like the BILLIONTH INDIVIDUAL to have done so."

"Listen to my lawyer PETTIFOG," said the accused approvingly. "Worth every penny of the $20 I paid him!"

02.11.2025 12:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Help! Rival toddler cliques have engaged in open WARFARE at my DAYCARE center, and a FIREBUG on one side has set my shirt ablaze. Can ANYONE save me? ANYONE?

01.11.2025 12:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

CEO: I don't think it's IMMORAL that our COMPANY hires only ADJUNCT staff, at a fraction of what they should be paid. More of a corporate FOIBLE!

31.10.2025 15:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sure, he lives in a FLEABAG and moans a lot, but I wager that if we DANDIFY him he'll be GENTEEL enough for high society. Let's start by applying IODINE to his open wounds...
- line from My Fair Zombie

30.10.2025 11:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

From a TEXTUAL perspective, "the lass was COMELY" is a near ANTONYM of "the lass was in the late stages of BUBONIC plague."

28.10.2025 12:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I CONFESS - I'm the one who started that INFERNO, the worst in Oktoberfest HISTORY. I just can't stand the OOMPAH music! ๐Ÿ“ฏ

27.10.2025 12:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
An African American witch wearing a white shift and a black dagger necklace dances around a levitating screaming skull, which is saying โ€œaarrgh.โ€

An African American witch wearing a white shift and a black dagger necklace dances around a levitating screaming skull, which is saying โ€œaarrgh.โ€

Guys please donโ€™t raise the dead. Itโ€™s not as fun as it looks. It is, however, still extremely cool.

This witchโ€™s name is Siobhan McGillicuddy.
#witchtober #artsky #spooksky

25.10.2025 18:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Homeland Security Advisor Nosferatu (inspired by @tomtomorrow.bsky.social) with a beautiful witch

26.10.2025 13:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Since the cartilage of my nose is UNFUSED, there is greater accumulation of PHLEGM THEREIN than is ROUTINE.

25.10.2025 12:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Next we have a magnificent ten KILOTON FLORAL display by some of the best FLORAL arrangers in the business. The crowd is giving it a standing OVATION. Wait, what's happening now? For some reason, the president of the FLORAL Society has driven a Ford MUSTANG right through the middle of this display!

24.10.2025 12:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A comic called halloween costume ideas for birders. In panel 1, labeled easy, there's a person labeled northern cardinal wearing a party hat, a beak, and red clothes, and a person labeled roseate spoonbill wearing pink clothes and a wooden spoon on their nose. In panel 2, labeled harder, there's a person labeled merlin sound ID wearing a big green circle with a microphone modeled after the button on the merlin sound ID app, and a person labeled hybrid green x blue jay wearing a complex costume with a mask and robe and hat modeled after a recently discovered hybrid bird. In panel 3, labeled challenging, there's a person labeled baltimore oriole nest wearing an enormous accurate woven oriole nest suspended from their arms and shoulders, and a person labeled african jacana carrying chicks with a hideous costume of long-toed bird feet hanging from their armpits. In panel 4, labeled hot, there's a person labeled high quality spotting scope who is shirtless and is wearing a spotting scope mask on their head, and a person labeled sexy owl pellet wearing an owl pellet top and bottom with a mouse skull on their head.

A comic called halloween costume ideas for birders. In panel 1, labeled easy, there's a person labeled northern cardinal wearing a party hat, a beak, and red clothes, and a person labeled roseate spoonbill wearing pink clothes and a wooden spoon on their nose. In panel 2, labeled harder, there's a person labeled merlin sound ID wearing a big green circle with a microphone modeled after the button on the merlin sound ID app, and a person labeled hybrid green x blue jay wearing a complex costume with a mask and robe and hat modeled after a recently discovered hybrid bird. In panel 3, labeled challenging, there's a person labeled baltimore oriole nest wearing an enormous accurate woven oriole nest suspended from their arms and shoulders, and a person labeled african jacana carrying chicks with a hideous costume of long-toed bird feet hanging from their armpits. In panel 4, labeled hot, there's a person labeled high quality spotting scope who is shirtless and is wearing a spotting scope mask on their head, and a person labeled sexy owl pellet wearing an owl pellet top and bottom with a mouse skull on their head.

Halloween costume ideas for birders.

23.10.2025 12:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1565    ๐Ÿ” 429    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 33
Ink drawing of a teenage blonde hovering and making her black cat levitate too.

Ink drawing of a teenage blonde hovering and making her black cat levitate too.

Gertrude Candywaggon, the technically teenage witch, destined to rid the world of all evil and, if she so chose, bring it back again.
#witchtober #portfolioday #artsky

23.10.2025 16:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As the HOSTESS of this FLEAPIT, I recommend putting ANTIFOG gel on your glasses and lots of deet on your LOWISH parts, if you're feeling OWLISH.

22.10.2025 12:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ANXIETY hangs around my neck, not like an albatross, but like a BROOCH constantly pulsing an AMPERE of fear into my system. ANXIETY is my COPILOT.

21.10.2025 10:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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