A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall

by Andy Abramowitz

If Pavelka was Frances McDormand, IlluMind was Gal Gadot. Not that this bothered Davis. He’d worked hard to become Frances McDormand.

I have no idea who Gal Gadot is so this really makes very little sense to me.

had a pixie cut the color of grape Dimetapp

Grape what?

a veritable difecta of low-grade malaise that only sporadically spiked to the point where the big questions were begged.

?? Looks like somebody swallowed a dictionary.

“What’s the dream, the ultimate assignment, the piece that puts Molly Winger in the same breath as Lesley Stahl or Christiane Amanpour?”

“I was beginning to get a bit of a Lenny Baum vibe,”

“Me and a fuck-ton of pudding packets, ’cause those things are delicious.”

Pudding packets? No idea.

pug. And his name is Tweedy, after the Wilco guy,

Again, no idea what this oh so clever quip means.

“Welcome to the Middle East in the Middle Ages,”

India is NOT the Middle East. Now or in the MIddle Ages.