Don’t forget AI doomer plays. We like to blow up data centers, too. Just with clever dialogue.
27.02.2026 18:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Don’t forget AI doomer plays. We like to blow up data centers, too. Just with clever dialogue.
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New #wordlesentence! Homeowner Edition
“Yesterday stank and shred my nerves like a lance turns a knight’s head into guava jelly; I shivered awake in the drafty attic, and found not one single buyer for the house.”
2/26: LANCE
2/25: SHRED
2/24: BUYER
2/23: ATTIC
2/22: GUAVA
2/21: AWAKE
2/20: STANK
Last night riding the subway felt like the nadir of stinky sad filthy mass transit in the winter. Standing in a car, suddenly realized there seemed to be effluvia from both ends of the mortal coil spattered on the floor. Quickly changed cars.
27.02.2026 15:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I remember thinking your back had gone out because of too much fornication. When I asked if that was the cause, you (rightly) looked at me as if I were an idiot.
24.02.2026 20:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I've given up Catholicism for Lent.
Problem solved.
This week’s #wordlesentence: Cowboy Character Actor Edition!
“Ain’t no mogul but a mooch; he hoist his rowdy squad up here and roost in the busted barn, like moss that bloom acrost a cow skull.”
2/19: HOIST
2/18: MOGUL
2/17: SQUAD
2/16: ROOST
2/15: SKULL
2/14: BLOOM
2/13: MOOCH
Excellent review of an ugly but very urgent show. If you don't mind your blood running cold by shock jocks urging violence then being jolted by Nirvana's "Rape Me" seconds later, check it out. One is mentally translating the show to an American podcast recording in (looking at watch)...
18.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Overhearing the chatter of people in their 20s and 30s while navigating crowded, snow-hedged sidewalks in the West Village on a Saturday afternoon is not conducive to wanting to stay in the city.
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this week's #wordlesententence: PETA Avenger Edition!
“A cello-sad bleat caused rage to surge and hammer like a gavel on her vegan heart, as she beheld a bloody scene that would embed in her brain for years.”
2/12: SURGE
2/11: VEGAN
2/10: SCENE
2/9: CELLO
2/8: EMBED
2/7: BLEAT
2/6: GAVEL
A European premiere tonight! www.instagram.com/p/DUfUwKnDcA...
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This week’s #wordlesentence: Columbo Edition
“Allot me one jumbo cigar to swoop in my mouth, and chide me not if said stogie stays unlit as I weigh and puzzle out spiny mysteries.”
2/5: SWOOP
2/4: CHIDE
2/4: WEIGH
2/4: CIGAR
2/4: SPINY
1/31: ALLOT
1/30: JUMBO
“Grants may not be used to fund translation or fiction.”
It’s all translation. It’s all fiction.
laundry machines in Europe are amazing. Small load takes 2 hours and comes out feeling dirtier than when it went in!
02.02.2026 14:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Check out the exuberant, subject-to-style match of Rhoda Feng's bravura review of ERS's "tasting menu" of Ulysses. Such flowing wit, intertextual frisking between page and her POV of stage & audience. Am gobbling, digesting... (tho not as long as scholars Joyce...) www.4columns.org/feng-rhoda/u...
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This week's #wordlesentence: Aristocrat Comeuppance Edition
“The evening light was dusky as the baron, a notoriously cruel, flaky freak, was seen to strut off the edge of a high cliff.”
1/29: FLAKY
1/28: CRUEL
1/27: DUSKY
1/26: FREAK
1/25: STRUT
1/24: CLIFF
1/23: BARON
Love that you went after that twerp with fist of fury. I hope your party learns from your fighting spirit.
28.01.2026 03:12 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work.
I don’t let bullies win.
Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
New work by Ella Baron, political cartoonist at @theguardian.com
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New #wordlesentence
“In the clink the racer paced a filthy cell, careful not to sully his waxen jumpsuit festooned in logos, now and then glancing out a one-cubic-foot window: bushes of fiery red sumac.”
1/22: CLINK
1/21: CUBIC
1/20: SULLY
1/19: WAXEN
1/18: SUMAC
1/17: FIERY
1/16: RACER
“Yeah, nice little peace ya got here. Shame if something was to happen to it.”
22.01.2026 23:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0DOOOOOOOOOO IT
20.01.2026 03:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Human suffering: The inexhaustible natural resource from which one can make quite a pretty penny.
20.01.2026 01:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wouldn't be #Capricorn season without HBD to the most sinister of GOATs....
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so end of this month I'm going to Germany (first time!) to see an opera I co-wrote produced in a lovely medieval town. Hoping they will let me in, and I will want to be let out! www.theaterregensburg.de/produktionen...
18.01.2026 19:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I would review the pudding out of 'em.
18.01.2026 01:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
first NYT review by the redoubtable @helenshaw.bsky.social is up, displaying her usual x-ray vision for dramaturgical slippage and minute stage business, peppered with apt and spicy word choices: feint, gait, valence, puffery. Lucky her editor; lucky her readers. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/t...
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New #wordlesentence: Courtroom Drama Edition!
“Eight minutes until the trial I was manic to avoid; the gumbo I gulped for lunch sluiced up the chasm of my throat and I wished myself tiny as a quark.”
1/15: CHASM
1/14: AVOID
1/13: GUMBO
1/12: TRIAL
1/11: QUARK
1/10: MANIC
1/9: EIGHT
"The collapse of the unseeable into the visible is the downfall arc powering Tracy Letts’s 1996 Bug, a compact horror romance making its Broadway debut in a vivid but lopsided production at Manhattan Theatre Club." 4columns.org/cote-david/bug
16.01.2026 14:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Being a Christian conservative is truly a win-win: use your faith to justify manifold bigotries and supporting a fascist, then suffer no consequences in a nonexistent afterlife.
14.01.2026 16:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Content Warning: human emotions
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