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
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]
to everybody who skeets jokes like
me: [says something insane]
therapist: sorry our time is up
you could just say the insane thing, you’re already here
me: [says something insane]
therapist: sorry our time is up
you could just say the insane thing, you’re already here
October 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
to everybody who skeets jokes like
me: [says something insane]
therapist: sorry our time is up
you could just say the insane thing, you’re already here
me: [says something insane]
therapist: sorry our time is up
you could just say the insane thing, you’re already here
I dropped my phone into my pho. there is a punchline here I just know it
October 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I dropped my phone into my pho. there is a punchline here I just know it
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On Lt Columbo Day never let us forget the episode where Columbo explains to a fitness guru how Mrs Columbo is thick, that he likes her thick, and how he will do anything within his power to keep her thick
October 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
On Lt Columbo Day never let us forget the episode where Columbo explains to a fitness guru how Mrs Columbo is thick, that he likes her thick, and how he will do anything within his power to keep her thick
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
this book has wordplay specific to every day of the year. tell me your birthday, and I will reveal your topsy-turvy prophecy
October 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
this book has wordplay specific to every day of the year. tell me your birthday, and I will reveal your topsy-turvy prophecy
it is becoming clear that I booked myself a writer’s retreat upstate just to procrastinate in prettier rooms
October 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
it is becoming clear that I booked myself a writer’s retreat upstate just to procrastinate in prettier rooms
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it occurs to me that the word “refined” is good when applied to taste but bad when applied to sugar/food….and we “taste” food….black mirror episode
October 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
it occurs to me that the word “refined” is good when applied to taste but bad when applied to sugar/food….and we “taste” food….black mirror episode
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leaf-peep, past tense leaf-pept
October 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
leaf-peep, past tense leaf-pept
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unhinged things i see on hinge /17 (i approve of this one)
September 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
unhinged things i see on hinge /17 (i approve of this one)