Wen Z
@wenz.bsky.social
Editor, sometimes. Avocational choral singer, weekly. Wannabe other things, usually.
Fan of pets, wordplay, and diagramless crossword puzzles.
Grew up in Chicagoland; now living in NYC.
Banner pic: Pine Meadow Lake, Harriman State Park, NY. Ahhhhh.
Fan of pets, wordplay, and diagramless crossword puzzles.
Grew up in Chicagoland; now living in NYC.
Banner pic: Pine Meadow Lake, Harriman State Park, NY. Ahhhhh.
Made a small donation to @iamals.bsky.social in honor of your husband and in honor of you, his caregiver and his love.
❤️
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November 25, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Made a small donation to @iamals.bsky.social in honor of your husband and in honor of you, his caregiver and his love.
❤️
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3. If you didn't see the "Copy" option before, you should see it now.
Click on it!
4. The image below shows that yep; the puzzle was "Copied to clipboard."
Go to LesNaim's tricky little post, start a reply, and paste in the puzzle.
2/3
Click on it!
4. The image below shows that yep; the puzzle was "Copied to clipboard."
Go to LesNaim's tricky little post, start a reply, and paste in the puzzle.
2/3
November 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
3. If you didn't see the "Copy" option before, you should see it now.
Click on it!
4. The image below shows that yep; the puzzle was "Copied to clipboard."
Go to LesNaim's tricky little post, start a reply, and paste in the puzzle.
2/3
Click on it!
4. The image below shows that yep; the puzzle was "Copied to clipboard."
Go to LesNaim's tricky little post, start a reply, and paste in the puzzle.
2/3
With screenshots.
1. Post-puzzling, click on "Share your results."
I think we're good so far.
2. You'll see options for how/where to share.
This likely varies from user to user; the screenshot below doesn't even reflect what *I* usually see.
If you don't see a "Copy" button, click "More."
1/2
1. Post-puzzling, click on "Share your results."
I think we're good so far.
2. You'll see options for how/where to share.
This likely varies from user to user; the screenshot below doesn't even reflect what *I* usually see.
If you don't see a "Copy" button, click "More."
1/2
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
With screenshots.
1. Post-puzzling, click on "Share your results."
I think we're good so far.
2. You'll see options for how/where to share.
This likely varies from user to user; the screenshot below doesn't even reflect what *I* usually see.
If you don't see a "Copy" button, click "More."
1/2
1. Post-puzzling, click on "Share your results."
I think we're good so far.
2. You'll see options for how/where to share.
This likely varies from user to user; the screenshot below doesn't even reflect what *I* usually see.
If you don't see a "Copy" button, click "More."
1/2
@rahaeli.bsky.social
Howdy. Paying my cat tax; then hoping you may have time soon to consider a health-care question that could help a friend (and others??).
Pictured: dear departed Henry with Delilah.
🤎 🤍 🩶 🤍
bsky.app/profile/wenz...
Howdy. Paying my cat tax; then hoping you may have time soon to consider a health-care question that could help a friend (and others??).
Pictured: dear departed Henry with Delilah.
🤎 🤍 🩶 🤍
bsky.app/profile/wenz...
November 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
@rahaeli.bsky.social
Howdy. Paying my cat tax; then hoping you may have time soon to consider a health-care question that could help a friend (and others??).
Pictured: dear departed Henry with Delilah.
🤎 🤍 🩶 🤍
bsky.app/profile/wenz...
Howdy. Paying my cat tax; then hoping you may have time soon to consider a health-care question that could help a friend (and others??).
Pictured: dear departed Henry with Delilah.
🤎 🤍 🩶 🤍
bsky.app/profile/wenz...
This printing press lived in the basement of my childhood home. Got to create things with it a few times. 😍
November 17, 2025 at 5:25 AM
This printing press lived in the basement of my childhood home. Got to create things with it a few times. 😍
Oh, what fun.
This (poorly touched-up) photo of a giant Pacific octopus shows the other end of the spectrum.
I once visited the Seattle Aquarium and had an afternoon's love affair with Buster.
😍
This (poorly touched-up) photo of a giant Pacific octopus shows the other end of the spectrum.
I once visited the Seattle Aquarium and had an afternoon's love affair with Buster.
😍
November 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Oh, what fun.
This (poorly touched-up) photo of a giant Pacific octopus shows the other end of the spectrum.
I once visited the Seattle Aquarium and had an afternoon's love affair with Buster.
😍
This (poorly touched-up) photo of a giant Pacific octopus shows the other end of the spectrum.
I once visited the Seattle Aquarium and had an afternoon's love affair with Buster.
😍
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Great minds in my feed:
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Great minds in my feed:
@suzieqandmum.bsky.social
@theherdhouse.bsky.social
My darling little giraffe friend (shared with permission).
She sat down on the landing and ate Halloween treats while the four of us chatted. 😁
@theherdhouse.bsky.social
My darling little giraffe friend (shared with permission).
She sat down on the landing and ate Halloween treats while the four of us chatted. 😁
November 3, 2025 at 4:11 AM
@suzieqandmum.bsky.social
@theherdhouse.bsky.social
My darling little giraffe friend (shared with permission).
She sat down on the landing and ate Halloween treats while the four of us chatted. 😁
@theherdhouse.bsky.social
My darling little giraffe friend (shared with permission).
She sat down on the landing and ate Halloween treats while the four of us chatted. 😁
Adams did say that he tried some bogus cures already, if that's what you mean:
November 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Adams did say that he tried some bogus cures already, if that's what you mean:
Sounds lovely! And useful.
I happen to have handy a Black Swallowtail photo, taken a few summers ago in the backyard of my childhood home in Illinois.
I happen to have handy a Black Swallowtail photo, taken a few summers ago in the backyard of my childhood home in Illinois.
November 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Sounds lovely! And useful.
I happen to have handy a Black Swallowtail photo, taken a few summers ago in the backyard of my childhood home in Illinois.
I happen to have handy a Black Swallowtail photo, taken a few summers ago in the backyard of my childhood home in Illinois.
Here's a double blast from the past for @theherdhouse.bsky.social.
A moment from a rerun of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (during which Regis mispronounced a key name 🙄):
A moment from a rerun of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (during which Regis mispronounced a key name 🙄):
October 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Here's a double blast from the past for @theherdhouse.bsky.social.
A moment from a rerun of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (during which Regis mispronounced a key name 🙄):
A moment from a rerun of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (during which Regis mispronounced a key name 🙄):
Your own personal set of living architectural grotesques! 😁
Also, I'm reminded of this:
Also, I'm reminded of this:
October 20, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Your own personal set of living architectural grotesques! 😁
Also, I'm reminded of this:
Also, I'm reminded of this:
Huh. Mine's on a piece of cardboard from a case of cat food.
October 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Huh. Mine's on a piece of cardboard from a case of cat food.
I have another obligation today that I temporarily ducked out of. Just marched, largely by myself, for a whole nine blocks 😁; now headed back to chorus rehearsal.
#NoKings
#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I have another obligation today that I temporarily ducked out of. Just marched, largely by myself, for a whole nine blocks 😁; now headed back to chorus rehearsal.
#NoKings
#NoKings
My Abner has superb whiskers ... but none of them do a loop de loop.
October 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
My Abner has superb whiskers ... but none of them do a loop de loop.
Attic figs, continued:
"In the 5th century B.C., Xerxes boasted that he would 'go to Attica and eat the figs' — i.e., conquer Greece. Try as he might, he never got there. Things much coveted but not attained are attic figs."
And so I named Figs in honor of an unrequited love.
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"In the 5th century B.C., Xerxes boasted that he would 'go to Attica and eat the figs' — i.e., conquer Greece. Try as he might, he never got there. Things much coveted but not attained are attic figs."
And so I named Figs in honor of an unrequited love.
2/3
October 12, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Attic figs, continued:
"In the 5th century B.C., Xerxes boasted that he would 'go to Attica and eat the figs' — i.e., conquer Greece. Try as he might, he never got there. Things much coveted but not attained are attic figs."
And so I named Figs in honor of an unrequited love.
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"In the 5th century B.C., Xerxes boasted that he would 'go to Attica and eat the figs' — i.e., conquer Greece. Try as he might, he never got there. Things much coveted but not attained are attic figs."
And so I named Figs in honor of an unrequited love.
2/3
My dad's horrible wordplay gave me the name for my tabby. When I told him that I was acquiring a former bodega cat, he started free-associating: "Pickles! New Delhi! Delilah!"
"Delilah," of course, doesn't evoke "deli" when spoken—but I thought that the more discreet visual nod was funny.
"Delilah," of course, doesn't evoke "deli" when spoken—but I thought that the more discreet visual nod was funny.
October 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
My dad's horrible wordplay gave me the name for my tabby. When I told him that I was acquiring a former bodega cat, he started free-associating: "Pickles! New Delhi! Delilah!"
"Delilah," of course, doesn't evoke "deli" when spoken—but I thought that the more discreet visual nod was funny.
"Delilah," of course, doesn't evoke "deli" when spoken—but I thought that the more discreet visual nod was funny.
In fairness, the ears do kinda scream Oriental Shorthair cat.
*But* the head shape is wrong — so I think that the Frenchie/Chihuahua cheerleaders are in the right.
*But* the head shape is wrong — so I think that the Frenchie/Chihuahua cheerleaders are in the right.
October 1, 2025 at 3:34 AM
In fairness, the ears do kinda scream Oriental Shorthair cat.
*But* the head shape is wrong — so I think that the Frenchie/Chihuahua cheerleaders are in the right.
*But* the head shape is wrong — so I think that the Frenchie/Chihuahua cheerleaders are in the right.
Attn.: Suzie, c/o @suzieqandmum.bsky.social:
I just saw a TV commercial for MSC Cruises, and I am here to tell you: Don't let Mum take you on one!
I just saw a TV commercial for MSC Cruises, and I am here to tell you: Don't let Mum take you on one!
September 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Attn.: Suzie, c/o @suzieqandmum.bsky.social:
I just saw a TV commercial for MSC Cruises, and I am here to tell you: Don't let Mum take you on one!
I just saw a TV commercial for MSC Cruises, and I am here to tell you: Don't let Mum take you on one!
Also, you may have another oddball potato in The Herd.
😆 😱
(Potato pancakes?)
😆 😱
(Potato pancakes?)
September 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Also, you may have another oddball potato in The Herd.
😆 😱
(Potato pancakes?)
😆 😱
(Potato pancakes?)
@kayleerowena.com
Pretty sure I recognize the Green-Wood Cemetery mausoleum where you did the watercolor a few weeks ago. Nicely done!
I didn't meet your skunk there, but I met a friend or a relative:
Pretty sure I recognize the Green-Wood Cemetery mausoleum where you did the watercolor a few weeks ago. Nicely done!
I didn't meet your skunk there, but I met a friend or a relative:
September 16, 2025 at 2:04 AM
@kayleerowena.com
Pretty sure I recognize the Green-Wood Cemetery mausoleum where you did the watercolor a few weeks ago. Nicely done!
I didn't meet your skunk there, but I met a friend or a relative:
Pretty sure I recognize the Green-Wood Cemetery mausoleum where you did the watercolor a few weeks ago. Nicely done!
I didn't meet your skunk there, but I met a friend or a relative: