tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post8418504927453777131..comments2024-03-28T20:49:13.267-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: SATURDAY, Oct. 11, 2008 - Pete Mitchell (Old-time actress Haden / Two-time NOW president Eleanor / Anne Rice's Brat Prince)Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-52569338434118933332008-11-15T20:26:00.000-05:002008-11-15T20:26:00.000-05:00yeah, how about Bonnie Raitt? Susan Tedeschi??yeah, how about Bonnie Raitt? <BR/>Susan Tedeschi??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-60218734065951254522008-10-14T13:32:00.000-04:002008-10-14T13:32:00.000-04:00awesome link to the bobbettes song mr. lee- saw st...awesome link to the bobbettes song mr. lee- saw stand by me but don't remember the song. Interestingly, joan jett doesn't play the solo in I love r&r - a groundbreaking artist to be sure, but so many talented female guitarists should have been placed in rolling stones list ahead of her.indycolthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15182907936957087507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-6516373720642836262008-10-12T15:11:00.000-04:002008-10-12T15:11:00.000-04:00Again, not to get too Scrabbly, but I loved that i...Again, not to get too Scrabbly, but I loved that it was all names that gave us JKQWYZ<BR/>(JOANJETT, ENRIQUEIGLESIAS, WAYNEGRETZKY) right over COTOPAXI<BR/><BR/>(I first tried COCOPELI which is sorta close to that flute guy we discussed, KOKOPELLI, no?)<BR/><BR/>superwell done, Pete!<BR/><BR/>Also, met an 11 yr old with 2 kitties named PELE and MIA at a bat mitzvah yesterday and I tried to explain to her about the whole PELE/HAMM thing in the puzzle the day before. She remained unimpressed...no future constructrix there I'm afraid!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-91144811573384376882008-10-12T13:25:00.000-04:002008-10-12T13:25:00.000-04:00I saw the "TT" ending on the Rolling Stone guitari...I saw the "TT" ending on the Rolling Stone guitarist clue and spent considerable time trying to jam "Bon(nie) Raitt" in there. Who woulda guessed that Raitt and Jett (two awesome female talents) had double t endings? Joni Mitchell was the other? Sorry, RS-very lame. She's an awesome writer and singer but hardly one of the greatest 100 rock guitarists of all time.kreiz1https://www.blogger.com/profile/11255781323496195240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-60219570990848867452008-10-11T23:19:00.000-04:002008-10-11T23:19:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.fikinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06324570637549775751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-996261479979803872008-10-11T22:06:00.000-04:002008-10-11T22:06:00.000-04:00@joho: re. "ausgezeichnet". (I hope I'm forgiven f...@joho: re. "ausgezeichnet". (I hope I'm forgiven for posting a fourth comment b/c it does not continue any private chatter I've been engaged in).<BR/><BR/>In Europe, the ambitious Richard Brooks Western "The Professionals" (Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode) and the much more modest "Chato's Land" are known as "Vietnam Westerns" b/c each shows in its own way, as the Europeans believe, what happesn if a country is invaded by people who do not understand it. I'm particularly fond of Chato's Land, in which Charles Bronson plays an Apache who has to flee a posse lead by Jack Palance (Chato's wife is gang-raped and brutalized along the way) and gets the best of them in the end. I saw it only in a dubbed version in Germany, and forever remember a shot where Chato (Bronson) peeks over a ridge, observing the posse, and says under his breath "ausgezeichnet!". I always wondered what he said in English (my hunch: "excellent!")Ulrichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02086202853174403008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-40016397013378123932008-10-11T21:26:00.000-04:002008-10-11T21:26:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ulrichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02086202853174403008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8764182688564009562008-10-11T21:19:00.000-04:002008-10-11T21:19:00.000-04:00Alors bienvenue à notre grande famille - Les Bruns...Alors bienvenue à notre grande famille - Les Bruns. Endiablé et folingue!Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10389790318218161090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-63787156218371676702008-10-11T20:37:00.000-04:002008-10-11T20:37:00.000-04:00@fergus and fikink, this was weird. when I started...@fergus and fikink, this was weird. when I started to type my comments, yours had not been posted yet. I got distracted by a call for a bit so there was probably a 10 min gap between when I started and when I published... So, it was weird to come back and read them now and realize that I had echoed something each of you had said. We're starting to think alike! Could be bad news... <BR/><BR/>@fergus, I'm Damascene and if you come to visit, I will cook Damascene food and serve it on a Damask tablecloth. So Damascene is more generic whereas Damask refers to material woven using a specific technique that was not invented in Damascus but was perfected there... (another Damascene material is brocade which I believe also shows up in puzzles). <BR/><BR/>@fikink, you can of course tell Mr.fikink his memory is sparsing. In neuroscience, we say that the brain is the second thing to go...foodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052189131129098616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-64489349977164328752008-10-11T20:26:00.000-04:002008-10-11T20:26:00.000-04:00@dk: You're quite welcome.By the bye, je ne suis ...@dk: You're quite welcome.<BR/><BR/>By the bye, je ne suis pas née Brown, je suis née un autre nom. That's OK.miriam bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03506593846362044050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-53303596168157827352008-10-11T20:20:00.000-04:002008-10-11T20:20:00.000-04:00While I'm often suspicious of coinages that arise ...While I'm often suspicious of coinages that arise generally, I'm all in favor of clever transitions, like sparse, that come from a play on words, rather than the degradation of terms that is the usual case in the devolution of our language.<BR/><BR/>More precision and exacting terms; fewer catch-all phrases and less lenience for outright solecisms. That's my rallying cry, if I have any revolutionary fervor left to dispense.fergushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-67302226100488015642008-10-11T19:45:00.000-04:002008-10-11T19:45:00.000-04:00@viola: "Feed on her damask cheek" Could...@viola: "Feed on her damask cheek" <BR/>Could that not mean "silky" cheek?<BR/><BR/>@joon & @pete m: I've always wanted a puzzle with the word AUSGEZEICHNET in it ... but that will never happen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-90032496017660008562008-10-11T19:22:00.000-04:002008-10-11T19:22:00.000-04:00Ok @chefbea1, read @ladel's post, this is why REx ...Ok @chefbea1, read @ladel's post, this is why REx just has to win.<BR/><BR/>My brother and sister are a font, or stoup if you wish, of questionable humor and you can thank my sis SIB for the president link.<BR/><BR/>Thank you @miriamb (nee Brown) for the catch.dkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17317008233459295376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-535108230131117582008-10-11T19:10:00.000-04:002008-10-11T19:10:00.000-04:00Thanks, Joon, I found today's harder than yesterda...Thanks, Joon, I found today's harder than yesterday's, too. <BR/>@Fergus: Rex's new verb, to sparse, gets lots of support from diamonded, garlanded and damasked!machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-88396723443596243822008-10-11T18:12:00.000-04:002008-10-11T18:12:00.000-04:00@miriamb thanx for the link@miriamb thanx for the linkchefbeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15195945085405126511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-7696346140919892412008-10-11T18:01:00.000-04:002008-10-11T18:01:00.000-04:00pete, if you're taking requests, i'd like to see t...pete, if you're taking requests, i'd like to see the aztec smoking mirror god TEZCATLIPOCA in a crossword. :P<BR/><BR/>pete actually has a third reason to be happy today: today was pete mitchell day at the boston cru. we all got together and solved a couple of his puzzles and generally had an enjoyable time for a couple of hours. fine puzzles, too, including a themed puzzle that was substantially harder than today's NYT. (by the way, i found today's NYT slightly harder than yesterday's, but maybe i'm the only one?)Joonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07825085755390339668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-85765888585530536792008-10-11T17:57:00.000-04:002008-10-11T17:57:00.000-04:00@chefbea: Excerpt of a message of dk's this p...@chefbea: Excerpt of a message of dk's this past Thursday:<BR/><BR/>Re: the election, check this out:<BR/><BR/>http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=46832&altf=Sfy1&altl=Qbslfs<BR/><BR/>1:26 PMmiriam bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03506593846362044050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10512401626463537662008-10-11T17:40:00.000-04:002008-10-11T17:40:00.000-04:00Does anyone remember the web site where we saw Rex...Does anyone remember the web site where we saw Rex running for president the other day? please let me know. Thanks.chefbeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15195945085405126511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-47192129401046226142008-10-11T17:29:00.000-04:002008-10-11T17:29:00.000-04:00For the record, you can all thank/blame Jim H, who...For the record, you can all thank/blame <A HREF="http://www.xwordblog.com/2008/01/manny-nosowsky.html" REL="nofollow">Jim H</A>, who inspired me to create this puzzle when he wrote: <I>"I spent most of the 1980s in Edmonton where I got to watch the young Wayne Gretzky (a name whose unfortunate combination of letters means he doesn't appear in the NYT database)</I>. If that's not laying down a challenge, I don't know what is. :)<BR/><BR/>Thanks to all who have offered kind words. Will Shortz was responsible for many of the clues, so I cannot take full credit/blame for those you loved/hated.<BR/><BR/>Go Sox!Pete Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00915253628212019131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-45045314437179049582008-10-11T17:03:00.000-04:002008-10-11T17:03:00.000-04:00... and while I'm obsessing on it, Damascene shows...... and while I'm obsessing on it, Damascene shows up as a suggestive adjective somewhere from long ago poetry readings. The Rubaiyat? Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell? I can't place it, and Google isn't any help.fergushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50551406927293276132008-10-11T16:27:00.000-04:002008-10-11T16:27:00.000-04:00Whereas I got DAMASK from another English poet. I ...Whereas I got DAMASK from another English poet. I was pretty sure it was Keats, but I was wrong about the Nightingale. <BR/><BR/>This is from "The Eve of St. Agnes," which is one lush and erotically charged poem. (Plus, you can see a lot of his other work dancing in and out.)<BR/><BR/>Stanza 24<BR/><BR/><BR/>A casement high and triple-arch’d there was, <BR/> All garlanded with carven imag’ries <BR/> Of fruits, and flowers, and bunches of knot-grass, 210<BR/> And diamonded with panes of quaint device, <BR/> Unnumerable of stains and splendid dyes. <BR/> As are the tiger-moth’s deep-damask’d wings; <BR/> And in the midst, ’mong thousand heraldries, <BR/> And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, 215<BR/>A shielded scutcheon blush’d with blood of queens and kings.fergushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5510380832195778802008-10-11T16:25:00.000-04:002008-10-11T16:25:00.000-04:00I worked this one on paper today while manning the...I worked this one on paper today while manning the garage sale. Once again, I am forced to recognize that I often give up too easily when google is at hand.<BR/><BR/>My first entry was WACO, and I had the middle filled in pretty quickly. Then I had to chip away at teh corners slowly. They SW came pretty quickly. NW was next, with a nudge from my non-crosswordy wife who happened to spot STOWE (I couldn't see it even with _T_W_). After some struggling, I finally saw AMRADIO in the NE and it fell soon after. Then I spent the rest of the afternoon staring at a mostly blank SE. At first I tried Godspell, which led me to Liberia where ERITREA belonged. I still can't quite believe SMEAL is correct--the M was my last square. I eventually switched to GODSPEED, and many minutes later finally spied ERITREA. The rest didn't take long, though I didn't know if I was going to have to correct that M until I actually saw the "correct" message.<BR/><BR/>But it all came eventually without a google, as I said EARLIER. So I may not be ready for competition, but I can apparently solve the tougher ones if I just have a little patience.<BR/><BR/>My fave clue was the one for JELLO. Until I found the J in JOANJETT, I was wondering what they called those snakes they swallowed alive in the Indiana Jones movie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-6858899088144247292008-10-11T16:24:00.000-04:002008-10-11T16:24:00.000-04:00Not too hard for s Saturday, but I did make a mist...Not too hard for s Saturday, but I did make a mistake -- jelly/ymn. I couldn't make any sense of ymn so knew that something might be wrong here. The more I look at the puzzle, the more I admire the construction and some of the unusual (but quite gettable) fill.Michael Chibnikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04700426644898924644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35351891843102007482008-10-11T16:20:00.000-04:002008-10-11T16:20:00.000-04:00My little lesson on top scoring hockey players yes...My little lesson on top scoring hockey players yesterday would have included WAYNE GRETZKY, but I thought why mention a name that will never be in the puzzle?<BR/><BR/>I raced through the top and middle starting at MAE WEST, then slowed to a crawl in the bottom.<BR/><BR/>I first had GOBSMACK for GODSPEED although that is no doubt wrong on many levels.Jeffreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01699404861773455504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-51563766621400893102008-10-11T16:15:00.000-04:002008-10-11T16:15:00.000-04:00Is it usually spelled SHTICK or SCHTICK? I starte...Is it usually spelled SHTICK or SCHTICK? <BR/><BR/>I started with MAE WEST too; but somehow I also knew the KUNG Pow movie. I kept looking at my partially filled in COTOPAXI thinking I had seen it not too long ago and I really should remeber it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com