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🏁 crossword column for @nytimes.com ✍️ humor for NYer πŸ“– writing a book about the WOTY-verse

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leaf-peep, past tense leaf-pept

03.10.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Prompt is something that’s a Non-negotiable for me is. Reply is at my funeral i want there to be a big live laugh love sign with the live crossed out.

Prompt is something that’s a Non-negotiable for me is. Reply is at my funeral i want there to be a big live laugh love sign with the live crossed out.

unhinged things i see on hinge /17 (i approve of this one)

15.09.2025 22:38 β€” πŸ‘ 100    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

omg, incredible loophole

01.10.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh my goodness! i’m honored to have made it in!!

01.10.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

just realized that β€œcopypasta” is a play on β€œcopy-paste” and I’m hearing it with a delightful Italian lilt

01.10.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

going to one of my office’s soundproof booths so that I can choke on water in silence

29.09.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Gameplay: Finding Mnemo

readable here for the week, I think?
static.nytimes.com/email-conten...

29.09.2025 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A snapshot of the Gameplay newsletter, titled β€œFinding Mnemo.”

A snapshot of the Gameplay newsletter, titled β€œFinding Mnemo.”

shocked to discover that my editor kept my unhinged headline for this newsletter about mnemonics, β€œFinding Mnemo”

29.09.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"edgelord" is such a great coinage, because it sounds as if it's about to describe something really stupid and then it does

25.09.2025 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2822    πŸ” 307    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 7

not to brag but my husband’s name is in the NATO alphabet

24.09.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

for anyone curious, it was still delicious?? turns out that even overproofing cannot defeat the power of fresh bread

24.09.2025 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ok so you basically hate it

23.09.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I have truly outdone myself. the width. the lack of height. the absent knots. no, don’t look away

23.09.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

maple syrup and nondairy milk for the egg wash, and stand by for results…the loaf has thus far expanded sideways but not upwards

23.09.2025 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

stay tuned for morning as I attempt to salvage whatever this loaf is trying to become

23.09.2025 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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haven’t posted in a minute and I am pleased to return to the mic with a severely chaotic vegan challah situation

23.09.2025 03:15 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

glanced at a legal pad of book notes from the summer that I have yet to type up and the top page just says β€œasshat compounds”

16.09.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I find it kinda funky
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I’m donkey
Are the best I ever had

11.09.2025 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 216    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
Labubu with a Labubu and Lakiki with a spiky Labubu

Labubu with a Labubu and Lakiki with a spiky Labubu

New linguistics meme dropped

10.09.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 278    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

CHRIST ON A BICYCLE: (exclaiming) me

10.09.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I lost 14 hours of my life to a camping chair at 81st and Central Park West but tickets are secured, and I will be taking a long break from this park after tonight

09.09.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

after a week of failed attempts to see shakespeare in the park
β€” including a date we got tix for but was rained out β€” I have gone full method (started the line at Central Park)

09.09.2025 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

certified bangers aren't enough. i need them notarized too

07.09.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1025    πŸ” 133    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 8

(the suggestion being that you were a blockhead, hollow wood for brains etc)

04.09.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

humbled by this book i’m reading about the lore/language of schoolchildren β€” like I’ve learned that knocking on our heads to β€œknock on wood” was originally something kids did to each other to call someone dumb

04.09.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

if you get a labubu may I offer you a laband-aid. thank you I’m sure this is late

03.09.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll have to watch. I saw him in Merchant of Venice at the Stratford festival years ago…so good

03.09.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

they’re left alone in this world and then you come along and promise to love them forever. that’s so good

03.09.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

thinking about how special it is to adopt a dog. I love our dog and wish I could adopt one million of them

03.09.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

what movie is this?

03.09.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0