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ChrisL

@chrisl64.me
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Rabid reader, passable poet, casual cruciverbalist, armchair etymologist, list lover, coffee quaffer, and music maniac.

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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 07/06/2026
@2River.bsky.social It looks like issue 18.3 is missing on your site? At least the archive page links are 404. Thanks!
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 13/05/2026
I'm tired of people who created an account here, posted a few times, then abandoned it, and now crap on Bluesky for its lack of engagement. I'm so not here to listen to their attempts to justify their own (lack of) agency and self-serving "logic."
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 04/02/2026
I love #HayleyWilliams. She titled her recent album “Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party,” and now her new project is... Power Snatch. Time for a listography of favorite double- and triple-entendre band names.→ variety.com/2026/music/n... || #music
variety.com
Hayley Williams Launches New Band Power Snatch, Releases ‘EP1’
Hayley Williams has debuted her new group, Power Snatch, with the release of 'EP1.'
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 04/02/2026
Jeff Bozos selleth #books, botoxes, and then taketh books away. → www.boston25news.com/news/trendin...
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Washington Post issues widespread layoffs via Zoom, slashing Sports, Books, podcast
“The actions we are taking include a broad strategic reset with a significant staff reduction.”
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 25/01/2026
She’s right about everything…except the hope that anyone will stand up or that any change is coming except for the worse. This is beyond (literal) trigger warnings. And beyond hope. → [He was EXECUTED - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDETj4Nppsk) #pretti #cowardICE
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He was EXECUTED
Today is the tipping point.
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 25/01/2026
Have to admit, some of that #AI #nostalgia bait---“The late John Hughes revisits the sets of his iconic 80's movies” and “Welcome back to senior year 1988”---breaks my heart a little. A lot.
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 07/01/2026
Given Hyden's routine mockery of Bluesky on the already sorely-missed Indiecast, I probably shouldn't promote this to all of us rife with "blueskyness" -- but it's too good not to recommend!
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 07/01/2026
“He don’t know it’s anything he can’t know,” the old man said. “That’s his trouble. He thinks if it’s something he can’t know then somebody smarter than him can tell him about it and he can know it just the same. And if you were to go there the first thing he would do would be to test your head and
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Rachel Fabi Ph.D. @fabioethics.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Excited to be writing these new mini puzzles for @statnews.com (my favorite site for health and science policy news!)
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 02/12/2025
Current Linguistics #newsletter is a "weekly roundup of the latest language-related news, research in linguistics, interesting reads from the week, and newest books and other media dealing with #language and #linguistics." And it's excellent! → linguisticdiscovery.substack.com/s/current-li...
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Current Linguistics | Linguistic Discovery | Daniel W. Hieber, Ph.D. | Substack
A weekly roundup of the latest language-related news, research in linguistics, interesting reads from the week, and newest books and other media dealing with language and linguistics. Click to read Li...
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 02/12/2025
New #Book: Easy Crosswords for Peace by Malaika Handa! You can't go wrong with this one: for yourself, to support indie #crosswords, or as the perfect gift for a crosswording friend (or one who should be). More info and links → chrisl64.me/crosswords-w...
Cover of Malaika Handa's new book Easy Crosswords for Peace
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 01/12/2025
RIP: Tom Stoppard. My commonplace books are rife with bits of Stoppard's plays I've collected over the years, but the simple bit I keep returning to most of late is from _Jumpers_, Dottie quoting Archie, her psychiatrist: It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting #rip #tom-stoppard
Tom Stoppard, wearing a black jacket over a white dress shirt, elbow on a round table, in 1990 at the Venice Film Festival. CC-BY-SA licensed photo by Gorup de Besanez
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 26/11/2025
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Dazaifu Sangu (?) Prayer/Shrine/Good Luck (?) pencils
Naturally, a web mosey that started with a search to try to identify the exact color of a Staedtler fineliner ended (temporarily) at this Reddit post about these "Japanese Prayer...
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 16/11/2025
Downloading Hyperallergic Crosswords chrisl64.me/crosswords/downloading-…
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 20/09/2025
How is Dora Jar not more widely acclaimed (by those who appreciate indie pop at least)? So good...and apparently I literally just missed her in concert here! Blurgh. → www.dorajar.world
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Dora Jar - Official Site
Official Site
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 18/09/2025
Reagan Dunn? More like Reagan Dunce with this kind of illogic. → www.courierherald.com/opinion/king...
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King County residents deserve a county that shows up to work | Guest Column | Courier-Herald
Work-from-home has led to a lack of productivity, visibility, and accountability.
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 14/09/2025
The problem with Heather McHugh's #poetry is every time I read it, I want to copy *every* poem to my #commonplace book.
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 14/09/2025
Is there an app that will automatically add "(in my opinion)" to every declarative statement I type anywhere in public? Or my new favorite diminutive parenthetical, (imo obvs)?
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 25/07/2025
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ChatGPT or Thee?
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 25/07/2025
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Ah, OK...
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 25/07/2025
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Also add Tr**p
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 25/07/2025
Ah, OK... chrisl64.me/misc/ah-ok
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 25/07/2025
ChatGPT or Thee? chrisl64.me/funny-finds/chatgpt-or-…
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 10/06/2025
I am enswooned by @malaika-h.bsky.social's new site, featuring a heatmap-with-linked-flyout-overleaf-thingamajig of her astounding number of published #crossword puzzles (562 at the moment! But probably 575 by the time I press publish in a minute or two).
2025 (so far) section of a heatmap with colors indicating presence---and number/size---of anything published that day. More than half of the days show something published.
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 08/06/2025
I can't believe I hadn't heard that Martha SIlano passed (on May 4). RIP. A wonderful #poet gone far too early. → marthasilano.net || #rip #poetry #poem
What Are You Reading?

—question at a dinner party

Finches—their reluctance to visit her feeder. Dirt in a fuchsia-filled pot.  
Venus and Jupiter, low in the western sky: Jupiter, closer than it's been in a while.

The kitchen towel's heretofore unnoticed ochre.  
The marquee the marquee the marquee . . .

Corn chip pretzel roasted pine nut barefoot Braille on a dining room rug.  
Three-way billboard just before the slats slip into meaning.

Because I might need one, the 12 definitions of crown.  
Because I might need it, the 5th definition of congress.

Spots on my Spanish teacher's skirt.  
Leopard print skirt not once but twice in a row.

Date on a package of yeast. Umber of tracked-in leaves.  
Feel of the dough feel of the dough . . . Tools. A mud-caked trowel.

Of the many shades of dying, of the many realms.  
Crumbs on this quarter stick of butter. Crumbs of this bread . . .

—Martha Silano
—found in _The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception_ (2011)
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 04/06/2025
Fun #crossword #clue → 19A: Bass output (4) | New York Times | Saturday, May 03, 2025 | Michael Lieberman
19a: Bass output (4) = ALES | New York Times | Saturday, May 03, 2025 | Michael Lieberman
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 04/06/2025
Seen today. If you know, you know. #crosswords #cruciverbalism
me: can't wait to make an ambitious themeless grid. 
crossfire: have you considered ANAL WAX
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 02/06/2025
Squeezy...a good #word #game from the aptly named Hey, Good Game studio. → imsqueezy.com
Word game in which you must decide where letters "squeeze" into an existing word. First row. for example. is H blank U blank P -- into which an M can be squeezed to form "hump"
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 01/06/2025
This is Aes's best album and it's his ninth? Tenth? So good. → aesoprock.bandcamp.com/album/black-...
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Black Hole Superette, by Aesop Rock
18 track album
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 31/05/2025
Glad I saw this in time!
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ChrisL @chrisl64.me · 31/05/2025
Extrication (A. R. Ammons) chrisl64.me/commonplacing/extricati…
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