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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
Screen Apnea
Comparison: Ms. [Linda] Stone has since expanded the concept and renamed it ‘screen apnea,’ referring to the disruption of breathing many...
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Aug 26, 20232 min read
What to make of spherical snow
Comparison: My writing colleague, Amy Lemley and I call this, ‘packing a tighter snowball.’ Connie Glover and Amy Lemley reflect through...
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Aug 14, 20231 min read
Don't mess with historical record
Comparison: Smearing Vaseline over the lens of history is hardly a phenomenon unique to lobotomy chic; Lens vaseline can prove quite a...
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Aug 6, 20231 min read
Flatline on Aisle Omega
Comparison: Then finally, our mighty sun will fizzle itself to an Earth-sized ember—all against the silence of a stopped heartbeat. When...
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Jul 30, 20231 min read
Heavy Bridge Work
Comparison: Sometimes, when I’ve [Brian McLaren] tried to insert myself between Us and Other, I managed to get shot at by both sides....
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Jul 7, 20231 min read
Please buckle your (meow!) seatbelts
Comparison: And you’re dreading flying the way cats hate baths? The Washington Post thought it would be helpful to you and me to offer...
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Jun 28, 20231 min read
It's all in the fabric
Comparison: ‘Like being the back end of a pantomime horse’, he said. I have always thought this a perfect metaphor for the absurdity of...
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Jun 16, 20231 min read
Beware the Orange Crock
Comparison: I still dream of a day when we will wake up, realize we hired a crocodile to "drain the swamp" and stop being surprised when...
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Jun 14, 20231 min read
Spiderweb in my Pocket
Comparison: [Kate Wyler:] It [an info exchange between two avowed enemies that may prevent war] is a flimsy web of relationships. But...
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Jun 6, 20231 min read
How's your tread depth?
Comparison: But make no mistake about it, she’s Batman, and you’re not even Robin. You’re like one of the tires on the Batmobile. Jimmy...
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May 24, 20231 min read
Watch those Close Fly-bys
Comparison: Which is why I have come to think of us, not as a ‘supermom’, but as an aircraft carrier. . . . My four children, still...
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May 15, 20232 min read
Gauges are as gauges do
Comparison: But when a metric on our culture or a complex machine is functioning poorly, it’s easy to get confused. Is this work actually...
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Jan 5, 20231 min read
Stray Orange Hair
Comparison: Floundering in his attempts to wield political power while lacking a political office, Donald Trump looks increasingly like a...
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Jan 5, 20231 min read
Wet Spark Plug
Comparison: General Beringer: Goddamn it! I'd piss on a spark plug if I thought it'd do any good. Let the boy in there, Major. The...
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Jan 5, 20231 min read
Unsteady Pinwheel
Comparison: Despite Miller’s talent and feverish enthusiasm, and the gravitational pull of his stars, the movie’s colorful parts just...
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Aug 25, 20221 min read
Lumpy Carpet
Comparison: Anomalies tend to get swept under the carpet until there are so many of them that the furniture starts to fall over. Somebody...
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Jul 2, 20221 min read
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