tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post1421515499838393144..comments2024-03-28T11:50:37.143-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Crosswords Los Angeles Tournament (4/25/09) - a recap by Andrea Carla MichaelsRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-46670783467566192412009-05-02T23:25:00.000-04:002009-05-02T23:25:00.000-04:00Great writeup, ACME. Really wish I could have bee...Great writeup, ACME. Really wish I could have been there. Had been planning to attend but personal issues prevented me from leaving San Diego. Next year for sure!Doc Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12540112168511893896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8884583838960172702009-05-02T15:52:00.000-04:002009-05-02T15:52:00.000-04:00I am a non-elite solver for sure- I got this one, ...I am a non-elite solver for sure- I got this one, but stuggled. I thought yesterday's was easier. now i feel deflatedUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06300385702200589764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-77412450946081111362009-05-02T15:44:00.000-04:002009-05-02T15:44:00.000-04:00hah!
classic --
;-)hah!<br /><br />classic --<br /><br />;-)janiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15129173620859824730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-48827621127284992702009-05-02T15:19:00.000-04:002009-05-02T15:19:00.000-04:00@janie
better ACPT redux than ACPT reflux!@janie<br />better ACPT redux than ACPT reflux!acmehttp://acmenaming.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14616735526821123802009-05-02T12:20:00.000-04:002009-05-02T12:20:00.000-04:00>Either more folks need to see this fabulous fi...>Either more folks need to see this fabulous film, or I need to stop referencing it!<br /><br />the former!! i bet yer local library has a copy you can borrow (if, like me, you aren't a netflicker...)<br /><br />great write-up. yes -- the smaller tournament events really are special.<br /><br />looking forward, too, to (grand-daddy of them all) acpt redux with <I>dinner: impossible</I>.<br /><br />;-)janiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15129173620859824730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-25845563807372073192009-05-02T12:14:00.000-04:002009-05-02T12:14:00.000-04:00p.s. Andrea, you are already featured in the promo...p.s. Andrea, you are already featured in the promo for Dinner Impossible, Wednesday night, so not all of you ended up on the cutting room floor.fikinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06324570637549775751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-78044919748995911372009-05-02T11:54:00.000-04:002009-05-02T11:54:00.000-04:00@Foodie, you MUST watch "All About Eve" - better y...@Foodie, you MUST watch "All About Eve" - better yet, buy it. It should be in everyone's DVD collection, along with "Sunset Boulevard" (the movie, with Gloria Swanson and William Holden).<br />Susan Sontag called Bette Davis' performance in AAE, "camp." <br />@andrea, I should have known the Paul Klee reference was your conceit! Very nice and btw, I never thot you had compared yourself to MM that day, especially in the context of AAE. MM played a bit part as George Sanders' ingenue in the film. <br /><br /><br /><br />(George Sanders purportedly committed suicide because he was bored with it all...true or not, I love the lore.)fikinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06324570637549775751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-40847905002111145142009-05-02T09:58:00.000-04:002009-05-02T09:58:00.000-04:00@Andrea, thanks for the explanation re "All About ...@Andrea, thanks for the explanation re "All About Eve"! You're right, I've never seen the movie, and it sounds like I really should Netflick it. But even if I had, I dunno that I would have made the connection.. <br />the kind of great smile that you have is all wrong for hiding an ambitious, cut-throat, scheming, ruthless side... :)foodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052189131129098616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-38556658010288238722009-05-02T08:56:00.000-04:002009-05-02T08:56:00.000-04:00Been to LA (in a car) and for the first time, feel...Been to LA (in a car) and for the first time, feel like I might go back. Thanks for the writeup acme.miguelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01635752811256776963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-37903064919232702602009-05-02T02:45:00.000-04:002009-05-02T02:45:00.000-04:00Thanks, all. Very sweet.
First things first, I r...Thanks, all. Very sweet.<br /><br />First things first, I really appreciate the space to post something, considering I could NEVER pull off my own blog. So thank YOU, Rex!<br /><br />@fikink<br />The Paul Klee was a shoutout to my friend Paul Clay who drove for hours just to watch and support.<br />He says he divides the world into those who ask, "Like the painter?" when he says his name...and, um, those who don't.<br />;)<br />So, yes, these illustrations were my idea, but where would I be without PuzzleGirl who attempts to make sense out of my ramblings and embeds my links?<br /><br />Or, where would ANY of us be, literally, without Rex and this blog?<br /><br /><br />Rex inspires me continually. Even tho I can REALLY annoy him, he actually still encourages/urges me to write! <br /><br />Which ironically brings me to Orange and Foodie's question...<br /><br />The "All About Eve" ref is bec Michael Colton (who used to write an early zine called "Modern Humorist"... check it out, it's still on the web) had to leave unexpectedly and I was approached at the last moment to fill in for the play-by-play with Young Tyler.<br /><br />I'm guessing you might not have seen this film. Otherwise, the ref to "All About Eve" would make a little more sense.<br /><br />OK...(where is Greene when I need him?!) <br />There is this young protegee/fan, Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) who seems sweet and is always right there ready to step in but is really an ambitious, cut-throat, scheming, ruthless chick with a big smile on her face.<br /><br />Either more folks need to see this fabulous film, or I need to stop referencing it!<br /><br />(Last time I kiddingly referred to myself as the blonde from "All About Eve" (I meant the ingenue Anne Baxter, who in retrospect may have had a darker shade of hair) was one of the first times I subbed for Rex.<br />He thought I was daring to compare myself to Marilyn Monroe who was also in the film! <br />(MM was relatively unknown then...and had a small but pivotal role in the film, and is featured in many of the stills and posters).<br /><br />If you want to know more than that, netflix the film. Netflick the film? What would be the verb?<br />I heard someone say "He FaceBooked me" yesterday...Haig lives! And impacts us still!)<br /><br />And yes, Foodie, I still sorta wish a puzzle like today's (well, maybe not today's...) were in the tournament; it would be the great leveler...Like the notorious #5 at this year's ACPT.<br /><br />That said, I stumbled on my own writeup tonight as I had finally given up on today's puzzle bec I got a total of 10 words in Joon's killer Friday:<br />I literally only filled in the whole NE corner plus the word MATADOR. That was IT!<br /><br />(Unless you count E'ER which I ironically spelled ERE. <br />And yes, I'm using ironically correctly bec I wrote a puzzle on HEIR, AIR, AIRE, ERE, AER)<br /><br />@joho<br />I WAS only kidding. No free lunch. (You know there is no such thing). <br />We had to fend for ourselves. Half of us went hungry. The other half ate the mechanical pencils.acmehttp://acmenaming.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-55624980231223593652009-05-02T00:09:00.000-04:002009-05-02T00:09:00.000-04:00What a fun writeup! Thanks!What a fun writeup! Thanks!retired_chemisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13181126754941899228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-79970024934294205722009-05-01T21:57:00.000-04:002009-05-01T21:57:00.000-04:00Hi Andrea!
The LA tournament sounds like a well-or...Hi Andrea!<br />The LA tournament sounds like a well-organized, fun affair! Compliments to the organizers, and of course to the "talent" that helped raise it to the level it obviously reached! <br />What's this about the Apartments?machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-59215451318446706742009-05-01T19:50:00.000-04:002009-05-01T19:50:00.000-04:00Thanks for the great overview. feel like I was th...Thanks for the great overview. feel like I was there :)<br /><br />Dave<br /><br /><A HREF="http://www.westsiderentals.com/southerncalifornia/apartments.cfm/LMU-Apartments/" REL="nofollow">LMU Apartments</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4108563415647304412009-05-01T19:39:00.000-04:002009-05-01T19:39:00.000-04:00Great write up, Andrea and great illustrations, Re...Great write up, Andrea and great illustrations, Rex!<br /><br />@andrea, after seeing today's puzzle, I wonder if you still would wish it to be in the tournament...<br /><br />@orange, after you asked about the relevance of "All about Eve" I realized that I had made an odd association... I saw (re Tyler) "he had to split", and I thought oh, split personality, that's the link to the Three Faces of Eve-- which of course has nothing to do with "All About Eve"...<br /><br />So, now, I don't have a clue either.foodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052189131129098616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-80702803469385315582009-05-01T19:01:00.000-04:002009-05-01T19:01:00.000-04:00I heard the Paul Klee image was Andrea's idea. I t...I heard the Paul Klee image was Andrea's idea. I thought it was ridiculously clever, too!<br /><br />I haven't a clue why there's an "All About Eve" picture, though.Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57449966065171076912009-05-01T17:40:00.000-04:002009-05-01T17:40:00.000-04:00Fantastic write-up, Andrea! You brought the tourny...Fantastic write-up, Andrea! You brought the tourny to life. <br /><br />But I have a question: did they serve lunch?johohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12708487230515532492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-32441560796053803252009-05-01T17:04:00.000-04:002009-05-01T17:04:00.000-04:00Andrea,
A great retelling of LA TOURNEY...funny, ...Andrea,<br />A great retelling of LA TOURNEY...funny, smart, clever, energetic.<br />Rex, the Paul Klee was a stroke! thanks.fikinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06324570637549775751noreply@blogger.com