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Today's letter - why do you want war?
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger - Samantha Smith was a ten-year-old girl in 1982 when she wrote to Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov about the growing arms race between the countries. Dear Mr. Andropov, Congr… more →
A Gay Dad asks Governor Schwarzenegger for the Freedom to Marry
Adventures in Mixed Temperature Metaphors, California Budget Crisis Edition
Nathaniel Snerpus wrote 2 weeks ago: From today’s LA Times: “Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state lawmakers stood frozen in c … more →
Mixed Metaphors
cafewitteveen wrote 2 weeks ago: Dear Mixed Metaphors, You’re still effective and often funny. Love, Jeremy … more →
Cram
Clarissa Tan wrote 1 month ago: For many years, I thought something was wrong with my book shelf. It just didn’t contain thing … more →
Lonely
Clarissa Tan wrote 1 month ago: I looked at the word, and the word looked at me. “I’m scared of you,” I said to th … more →
Precious
Clarissa Tan wrote 1 month ago: Once, I thought I had written the perfect paragraph. So beautiful was it that even its very form and … more →
Aisle
Clarissa Tan wrote 2 months ago: I dream of walking down the aisle. Cereals to my left, powdered beverages to my right, I will be que … more →
Mixed Metaphors
richmonde wrote 2 months ago: Most clichés are metaphors, most metaphors are clichés. If you don’t know the literal meaning of a m … more →
Romance
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Clarissa Tan wrote 4 months ago: The other day, I met a man. We stood midway between both our homes, staring at each other, peeking o … more →
Butterfly
Clarissa Tan wrote 4 months ago: While walking home the other day, I had so many ideas for this post. They swarmed like butterflies a … more →
Tomorrow
Clarissa Tan wrote 4 months ago: Tomorrow either never comes or is already with us, depending on the publications you read. Tomorrow … more →
Wall
Clarissa Tan wrote 4 months ago: The writing’s on the wall, apparently. I wish I could read it. All my life, I have heard peopl … more →
The Same Thing Differently
steve and seánan wrote 4 months ago: One of Center’s friends has an art opening tomorrow night. It is, she told Center, her first d … more →
And the award for most incoherent metaphor goes to...
editorialcurses wrote 5 months ago: Special thanks to editor Karen Reddick (meet her via her blog and on Twitter) for bringing the B*itc … more →
Gardening
Clarissa Tan wrote 6 months ago: Words need space to grow. It is estimated that a healthy, bouncing baby word requires at least three … more →
Prose
Clarissa Tan wrote 6 months ago: Prose can take away so much. It can take away the whimsy, the lilt, the rhythm, the jazz from words. … more →
Dough
Clarissa Tan wrote 6 months ago: By all means, let us lead cookie-cutter lives. Let us take down society’s orders and trim ours … more →
Public Officials & Mixed Metaphors
blinkeredthinker wrote 6 months ago: Nearly every day I find statements from public officials with overused cliches or, as in this case, … more →
Just one more on metaphors, really
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andreaskluth wrote 9 months ago: Well, after exhausting all of you with my recent trilogy on metaphor-mixing, I thought I was done. B … more →
Metaphor metaphysics
andreaskluth wrote 9 months ago: And just to follow up with the final post in this trilogy on mixed metaphors (after this and this), … more →
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