Cat's Blues
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Today’s puzzle features five women (all she/her) who have adopted cats this year! To solve, either print out this PDF or use this online solving service. If you encounter any issues or have any feedback, please leave that here. Please find the answers (and last week’s puzzle’s answers) and some art I’ve been loving at the bottom of this newsletter.
Have fun, and have a wonderful Sunday!
Art I’ve Loved Lately:
“The End of Poetry” by Ada Limón. Enough of osseous and chickadee and sunflower / and snowshoes…
Possession (1981). A visually disgusting yet heart-wrenching depiction of spoiled love, a marriage gone sour, with the most bonkers tone I’ve ever seen in a horror film—absurd and almost comedic in its violence, casual in its sensuality, disregarding nearly any sense of the traditional need to explain itself. I can’t believe how quickly this snuck up on me until suddenly I was sitting up and crying at a woman screaming in an empty subway tunnel.
“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” by Gil Scott-Heron. The revolution will be no re-run, brothers / The revolution will be live
Answers to Cat’s Blues (Edit: these are the correct answers—thank you to MJ and Jacky for pointing out the typo!)
just heads up, Tortie twice in the Cat's answers. Rude to make me yearn for adopting another cat!