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Toot. Toot.
Comparison: [Ridley] Scott plays, to push Welles’s metaphor further, with the biggest train sets conceivable—giant, beautiful, gleaming...
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Nov 23, 20231 min read
Did Joe pull it soon enough?
Comparison: . . . a rip cord he can pull whenever his show veers into tricky territory, or when he wants to distance himself from some of...
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Nov 16, 20231 min read
How soon before Mom and Dad arrive?
Comparison: San Francisco had the air this week of teenagers frantically cleaning up after a house party with their parents on the way...
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Nov 10, 20231 min read
Stormy Mountain Top. Who knew?
Comparison: It come also with, uh . . . like a storm front that you’re constantly battling because you’re disappointed. You go, ‘Oh shit....
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Nov 7, 20231 min read
Cozy. Claustrophobic. Creepy?
Comparison: Shot by Philippe Le Sourd, often in deep, secretive tones, the movie is so intimate, it seems to take place inside a...
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Nov 3, 20231 min read
How FAR under the bus?
Comparison: In other words that's Jenna Ellis saying, ‘uh Rudy may I introduce you to the undercarriage of the bus?’ Ah, when lawyers...
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Oct 31, 20231 min read
Just keep moving; attach somewhere!
Comparison: They endlessly circulate the room, like bits of plastic in the ocean waiting to be snagged on something. An introvert's...
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Oct 25, 20231 min read
The Great Fun of Swings.
Comparison: ‘They just want to be pushed in the swing set of life every once in a while and say, “Wheeee, wheeee.”‘ Coach Prime's...
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Oct 23, 20231 min read
Hot Tub Time Machine.
Comparison: ‘That way, when it comes time for you to retire, you’ll have a bunch of objects you can fill a room with, and then just go...
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Oct 22, 20231 min read
Goodbye Kitty Hawk.
Comparison: If there was any aviation metaphor to be drawn from the news conference, it was that his bombing run would continue — he said...
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Oct 21, 20232 min read
Hope the green flag is out; this is entertaining.
Comparison: Instead of running out of gas, the clown car was refueled by Republicans’ weakness and fear of destroyed political careers if...
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Oct 13, 20231 min read
Oh, Dear MaMa and DaDa.
Comparison: ‘Parents care very deeply about the well-being of their children. It can be done. How does this imprinting work?’ . . . . . ....
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Oct 8, 20231 min read
Watch out for the taste of green fuzzies.
Comparison: American journalists have become golden retrievers watching a tennis-ball launcher. Every time they start to chase one ball,...
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Sep 29, 20231 min read
Calling all dripping squirtguns!
Comparison: ‘If Republicans had a smoking gun or even a dripping water pistol, they would be presenting it today.’ Rep. Jamie Raskin...
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Sep 28, 20231 min read
Bright Shiny Broken Parts, Magpie, Oh My!
Comparison: My cover story in the September issue of [The Atlantic] is the product of many months of obsessive labor—without careful...
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Sep 26, 20231 min read
Gentlepersons Start Your Engines/Critters
Comparison: ‘Trying to be a high stakes trader without an ISDA is like trying to win the Indy 500 riding a llama.’ in this comparison,...
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Sep 24, 20231 min read
Roundabout Understanding
Comparison: Cars go round and round, like a merry-go-round but without the horses, making it a prime example of traffic merriment. For...
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Sep 22, 20231 min read
Mirror, Mirror . . .
Comparison: [Leonard Hofstadter:] Why? She sick of talking to the magic mirror on the wall? Screenwriters Holland, Kaplan, and Howe...
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Sep 18, 20231 min read
Hold That Line!? HOLD THAT LINE!?
Comparison: For the [NFL] 2023 season, which begins on Thursday, any player on the receiving team will be allowed to signal for a ‘fair...
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Sep 5, 20231 min read
Diamonds are Alexander's best friend?
Comparison: [From “My Shot“] I’m a diamond in the rough, a shining piece of coal. When Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote these words for...
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Sep 5, 20231 min read
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