Some time ago, some writer must have taken several Klonopins and been scanning Pinterest. Then, they found today’s theme’s “musing” in an inspirational meme about editing and in their barbiturate haze, thought it was somehow a suitable basis for a puzzle.
EDITING A DRAFT OF WRITING IS SURELY AN ART FORM? Huh? Okay? Oh! Hark! It can be edited down to EDITING IS AN ART! Wow! Meta!
I finished today in 20:00 with no problems, but it would have been faster if I had realized that the “musing” was not going to include anything fun, clever, witty, or otherwise interesting. WRITING was the last part of it I filled in because I was racking my brain for something–anything–to make this puzzle something more than a CHEESY boost for writers with INFLATED EGOs.
Anyway, it was fun to see LEANN Rimes today in the puzzle. I guess she has continued to have a career in the past 20 years, but this song from my childhood is still what plays in my head when I hear her name:
Seriously! How could a 13 year old sing that way? Check her birth certificate! I’ll spend the rest of my day off of work (Happy Qatar National Day!) checking out the rest of her catalog.
There’s not much else to comment on in today’s puzzle. PANDAs are cute. I want a TACO. WAWA is a guitar accessory, not a 7-Eleven competitor (Google tells me it’s actually spelled “Wah Wah”). It’s good to see Harry Potter referenced in the puzzle, even if it’s the tragic character of DRACO Malfoy.
Gotta run! And I mean that literally. I’ve got a lot of calories to burn before a week of this:
But …but… But… Isn’t it “writing *well*…”? That’s what stuck me because I had WILL until I read the down clue properly. Still doesn’t really make sense. And why ANAGRAM????
WAWA is definitely not the wah pedal you’re thinking of. Eat all the satsivi!!!!
And as Rex pointed out WAWA is a philly thing! I was wracking my brain to think of a 7-11 equivalent on the east coast, but when I realized it was WAWA I literally thought… oh, yeah, i’ve seen that in Philly!
Have y’all listened to LeAnn Rimes, though? Looking for comments on that!
I tried, honestly I did. I have to say though, I don’t ~love~ country music and she always seems like that generic country singer type… I knew the answer right off the bat though – I am from Bakersfield, after all.