Thought Thurs #NYTXW was fine but didn’t understand the theme. Then after I was done I saw that those random black boxes in the app were supposed to have clues & images of a musical staff! 🎼 Sorry Ricky Cruz got done dirty, would’ve been great with theme executed right. 7:04

Props to Wyna for getting FISH BULB and SPARKLE (and maybe even GRIME) in the top right of today’s Connections

Prayers for Tim Wakefield, and all measure of ill wishes to Curt Schilling

Puzzle take me from Reddit: if you type in “sem” into the iPhone emoji keyboard you get two semi trucks (understandable) and a croc/gator. Why is that? (The answer is kind of bizarre)

Before a Harvard community that stood in the rain to witness history, Claudine Gay is inaugurated as the university’s 30th president. She met the moment with an extraordinary speech. 1/

Wordle 834 2/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Whoa, the “random starting word” strategy really paid off today

[Scooby Doo at an interview] Interviewer: May I see your CV? Scooby: *hands CV over* Rrres you may! Interviewer: Round here we call it a CV.

RIP to one of the best

When that Wakefield knuckleball was dancing it was Astaire or the Nicholas Brothers in baseball form

Very well deserved

The part in this about SBF essentially blowing off Anna Wintour to play Storybook Brawl only solidifies my sense that SBF was terminally video gamed, in that he lived life as though any major mistake could be erased by restoring a previous saved game

Fast Saturday #NYTXW. 6:24

Never Gana Gueyeve you up

A book launch for a really fun read!

Coming up to day 4 of no home Internet no thanks to Verizon FIOS. Super frustrating. At least I guess I showed my kids how to watch stuff on a DVD player

Happy New Year!!