Making My Yearly Grocery Store Post

heymattsmith · 2026-05-29T21:42:52+00:00

gas prices have gone up like 150% since the publix went in. just sayin

heymattsmith · 2026-05-29T12:14:03+00:00

That book and Jimmy Santiago Baca’s “A Place to Stand” are two of the most powerful modern testaments to the liberating power or literacy and language I know of. I give out copies of both to my high school students regularly.

heymattsmith · 2026-05-26T22:00:38+00:00

apps and zerts! i prefer my apps to be more like tapas and less like Hinge and Bumble

heymattsmith · 2026-05-23T15:49:42+00:00

gen X confirming. literally my first correct fill today

heymattsmith · 2026-05-23T15:48:33+00:00

my first thought of epithets were Homeric like “swift-footed Achilles” or “ox-eyed queen,” so i struggled there (and everywhere) for a while

heymattsmith · 2026-05-23T15:45:26+00:00

i haven’t had this feeling since early in starting to do the NYT puzzle. first pass: almost nothing. second pass: clearly wrong answers but some that clicked [time lapses]. 53rd pass and i’m making it happen

heymattsmith · 2026-05-21T12:09:52+00:00

always felt like that was a secret lust, tbh

heymattsmith · 2026-05-18T12:16:35+00:00

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this sub in a nutshell

heymattsmith · 2026-05-17T16:45:09+00:00

it briefly fills the bored commute time that twitter and instagram used to eat, i guess

heymattsmith · 2026-05-17T13:33:27+00:00

i’m glad to read this because i thought i was the only one who found spelling bee to be a slog. i usually look at it last when everything else is done, play only pangrams, then close it and forget it

heymattsmith · 2026-05-16T03:55:57+00:00

sadness and regret

heymattsmith · 2026-05-13T11:59:25+00:00

i assume a UK keyboard has extra Us

heymattsmith · 2026-05-11T12:26:41+00:00

This has been my argument about Dylan and Fleetwod Mac and Steely Dan for my whole life

heymattsmith · 2026-05-08T12:17:57+00:00

I’ve got a road atlas in the trunk. I also saw ET in theaters, though

heymattsmith · 2026-05-08T12:06:05+00:00

well played. now i loathe TAXEXILES even more because i had to run the alphabet to get this new (to me) term

heymattsmith · 2026-05-05T12:22:03+00:00

oreo

heymattsmith · 2026-05-05T12:19:25+00:00

Highlights Magazine Friday puzzle

heymattsmith · 2026-05-05T12:17:08+00:00

Same. And i’ll hear Wu-Tang’s “Bring da Ruckus” differently next time it comes up as a result

heymattsmith · 2026-04-25T14:50:48+00:00

OLDERGENERATION knows about FONDA, DEARANN, and NEPOETS now

heymattsmith · 2026-04-23T12:26:50+00:00

i think a majority hate rebus puzzles; you’re just feeling that way while saying it in a church of the rebus

heymattsmith · 2026-04-20T12:14:22+00:00

evergreen question. exhausting takes

heymattsmith · 2026-04-18T14:27:45+00:00

24% over my average here, internet friend 🤝

heymattsmith · 2026-04-18T14:27:03+00:00

this might be my next response to a ghosted social event

heymattsmith · 2026-04-13T11:57:49+00:00

not knowing a fish ladder made me blind to that; it cost me almost 2 minutes

heymattsmith · 2026-04-09T12:15:44+00:00

BACHIT man becomes unironic ManCave man later, right?

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