Sam Corbin
@samcorbin.bsky.social
🏁 crossword column for @nytimes.com
✍️ humor for NYer
📖 writing a book about the WOTY-verse
✍️ humor for NYer
📖 writing a book about the WOTY-verse
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
i can’t stop rereading this
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
i can’t stop rereading this
something deeply humbling about finding yourself staring into the glass-walled “cupping room” of a north-brooklyn coffee shop and seeing your old classmate from acting school at NYU. realizing that that is you, unironically
November 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
something deeply humbling about finding yourself staring into the glass-walled “cupping room” of a north-brooklyn coffee shop and seeing your old classmate from acting school at NYU. realizing that that is you, unironically
dreamed I had to retake the SATs (and had not prepared, in the dream tradition) and I was taking too long on the first section, and the proctor came over and was like “don’t worry, I’ll just drop this one straight into the fire”
please interpet
please interpet
November 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
dreamed I had to retake the SATs (and had not prepared, in the dream tradition) and I was taking too long on the first section, and the proctor came over and was like “don’t worry, I’ll just drop this one straight into the fire”
please interpet
please interpet
filling @debamlen.bsky.social’s shoes at the NYT feels like an impossible task. she has done more for the crossworld than can be described in words, building a puzzle community when no one else was looking or cared, and is the reason I get to do what I do today
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
filling @debamlen.bsky.social’s shoes at the NYT feels like an impossible task. she has done more for the crossworld than can be described in words, building a puzzle community when no one else was looking or cared, and is the reason I get to do what I do today
what if we said “all joking astride” instead? like we have all had a laugh, and taken it well, and now we can be serious
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
what if we said “all joking astride” instead? like we have all had a laugh, and taken it well, and now we can be serious
my current income bracket can best be described as "freely succumbing to the indulgences of thriftbooks dot com"
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
my current income bracket can best be described as "freely succumbing to the indulgences of thriftbooks dot com"
more like aurora BORINGalis (partner didn’t wake me up)
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
more like aurora BORINGalis (partner didn’t wake me up)
mercury is still in retrograde and I have bitten into an unripe hachiya persimmon
November 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
mercury is still in retrograde and I have bitten into an unripe hachiya persimmon
hitting for the cycle by ordering takeout every day of the week
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
hitting for the cycle by ordering takeout every day of the week
every day I fantasize about just writing my list of acknowledgments for the book and working backwards from there
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
every day I fantasize about just writing my list of acknowledgments for the book and working backwards from there
I know this isn’t a real problem but I bought a persimmon at the farmer’s market that turned out to be a tomato when I bit into it, and I cannot help but ask where the justice is in this cruel world
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I know this isn’t a real problem but I bought a persimmon at the farmer’s market that turned out to be a tomato when I bit into it, and I cannot help but ask where the justice is in this cruel world
ran out of ways to procrastinate writing, so my body took initiative and slammed my finger in a door
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
ran out of ways to procrastinate writing, so my body took initiative and slammed my finger in a door
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As the prophets prophesied:
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 AM
As the prophets prophesied:
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going beastmode (curling up sleepily in my soft little den)
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
going beastmode (curling up sleepily in my soft little den)
new phrase: crashing in. that's when all of your crash-outs finally culminate in one good thing (definition 2 is when the koolaid man makes an entrance)
November 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
new phrase: crashing in. that's when all of your crash-outs finally culminate in one good thing (definition 2 is when the koolaid man makes an entrance)
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when is a wife not a wife? when she’s aloof
November 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
when is a wife not a wife? when she’s aloof
strangely moved by this
November 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
strangely moved by this
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Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.
November 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Has this World Series consistently featured the highest quality of baseball? No. Has it featured the widest array possible of beautiful, weird, specific baseball delights? Yes.
let the preliminary season for deciding what to do for my birthday begin (it’s in december)
November 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
let the preliminary season for deciding what to do for my birthday begin (it’s in december)
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Just heard someone say “falls on death’s ears,” and…
I kinda like it.
I kinda like it.
November 1, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Just heard someone say “falls on death’s ears,” and…
I kinda like it.
I kinda like it.
the joke in nyc about spending $40 every time you leave your house has nothing on las vegas. it costs $150 just to cross a building’s threshold
October 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
the joke in nyc about spending $40 every time you leave your house has nothing on las vegas. it costs $150 just to cross a building’s threshold
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Halloween reminder
October 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Halloween reminder
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oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter
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[hot chocolate “you sexy thing” voice]
October 16, 2025 at 3:56 AM
[hot chocolate “you sexy thing” voice]