Shortz Cutz

14. Jun, 2006 0 Comments

Wordplay
Get It, It’s A Play On Words, But It’s Not!
Trailer
Released in NYC this Friday and nationwide (is on your side) 6/23

Crossword puzzles? Who the flip wilson wastes time on dem thangs anymo when Count Suduko dominates the world’s free time? Apparently everyone, from your mother, to the milkman yer mother’s bonin, to Jonnie Stewart, to the Indigo Dykes (no fences, but thats what I’ve been calling them since elementary school), to Ken Burns, to even big Bubba himself! Yep, and they all heart the NYTimes‘ c’words above the rest. And their messiah? The NYTimes‘ c’word editor Will Shortz, who, at IU, became the world’s only degree holder in Enigmatology (and no, he doesn’t study how repoopulous Jim Carrey was in Batman Forever as the Riddler/Edward Nygma)! Shortz is also the founder of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (think an adult spelling bee), which basically is a once a year safehaven for braniac losers of our fine country to unite and out down and across each other. So of course before we can get to the tourney, we have meet the quirky playas and the people who make their day, the quirky puzzle makers. Sounds purty zzzzzzz inducing, I know, but any fan of crosswords will be kept awake. As for the illiterate haters? Stay de hell away from the theater and beat off to Halo 2 in yer parent’s basement. WORD em UP, yo!!