Many years ago, in the last days of the Maleska era, I constructed some daily NYT puzzles, along with a Sunday-size one for a Simon & Schuster book edited by Maleska. I haven't submitted any new ones in the Shortz era, but occasionally think about it.
Nowadays, I do the NYT puzzle online not very well and read and enjoy Rex Parker's blog. The idea of this blog is to spend a few extra minutes every day, most days, or maybe just some days on something I already spend/waste time on by making observations that take off from Rex's. We'll see how it goes.
Since my mother reads Rex, I believe this blog will have a reader. Hi Mom!
Another thing I feel as I think back to the Maleska past and my small part in it is a deep feeling for a man who was dying of cancer and kept on doing his job...thinking of that makes me wince at my wincing the other day at the old Dylan puzzle...ah, time, ah, memory...
Posted by: Wayne | 11/22/2012 at 12:48 PM
Thx for the heads-up to the site, Dan! I just confirmed that my old stuff is up--a quick search led me to Jim Horne's xword site--I contributed as Wayne Hall-Eastman.
Ah, memories--I very much appreciate Maleska picking my letter out of the slush pile, publishing my 21 x 21 (my favorite) in S&S, and encouraging me to construct some dailies...I winced again as I looked a moment ago at ETM's correction of an infelicitous "sawers" in the dubious original grid of my Bob Dylan puzzle to a truly infelicitous duplication of "adam" in the published grid... that one should not have been published even w/o the editing mistake that ETM made...ah well...the good and the less good and the rotten that we constructors and editors do outlives us all.
Posted by: Wayne | 11/20/2012 at 11:35 AM
Are any of your puzzles available online in the "Pre-Shortzian" site? http://www.preshortzianpuzzleproject.com/
Posted by: ===Dan | 11/20/2012 at 10:32 AM