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Dec 27, 20231 min read
Did the garbage truck come yet?
Comparison: ‘Trash takes itself out every single time.’ Taylor Swift reflects on the outcome for some of her less-than-honorable enemies....
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DLP
Dec 26, 20231 min read
Did sailing attendants have to do an oxygen mask demo?
Comparison: Imagine an airline flight of five months with one brief stop, no movies, porridge for breakfast, salt pork for dinner, and a...
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DLP
Dec 26, 20231 min read
Who's raising the flag today?
Comparison: ‘I‘ve been raised up and down the flagpole of public opinion so many times in the last 20 years,‘ . . . . ‘I've been given a...
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DLP
Dec 23, 20232 min read
Mermaid or Whale?
Comparison: Recently, in a large city in France, a poster featuring a young, thin and tan woman appeared in the window of a gym. It read:...
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Dec 21, 20231 min read
Where'd that team go?
Comparison: JERRY: This may be the most perfect jacket I have ever put on. (Elaine grabs the tag) How much is it? ELAINE: (Shocked) Oh my...
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DLP
Dec 19, 20231 min read
Be a bit easier on the clutch. OK?
Comparison: There’s no regret, no tenderness, no residue of passion grand or otherwise—just the grinding of gears as the film cuts back...
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Dec 16, 20231 min read
How unknown, exactly?
Comparison: Are you willing to sprint when the distance is unknown? Strength and conditioning coach Lewis Caralla asking athletes if they...
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DLP
Dec 11, 20231 min read
Would Michelangelo have used a robot?
Comparison: . . . how did you come here, on foot, on a horse or in a car? The car cuts time off your journey. So does a robot. An...
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DLP
Dec 9, 20231 min read
Who Wrote the Script?
Comparison: On the debate stage, both are scripted, but [Nikki] Haley is agile and sharp-tongued while [Ron] DeSantis is a bulldozer with...
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DLP
Nov 23, 20231 min read
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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DLP
Nov 16, 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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DLP
Nov 10, 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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DLP
Nov 7, 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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DLP
Nov 3, 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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DLP
Oct 31, 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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DLP
Oct 25, 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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DLP
Oct 23, 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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DLP
Oct 22, 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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DLP
Oct 21, 20232 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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DLP
Oct 13, 20231 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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