A previous tenant apparently thought it made a good doorstop.
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At its worst, Greek pizza is a barely edible doorstop.
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And I think people have grown up on doorstop fantasies, right?
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" Or: "What is the difference between a backstop and a doorstop?
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"4 3 2 43" is indeed a doorstop of forking paths.
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Much to my delight, there was another cheese wedge doorstop in the bedroom.
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The Hodor doorstop is funny, which kind of makes the pain go away.
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Several Twitter users roasted the Cybertruck's unflattering resemblance to a rubber doorstop wedge.
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Ippolito Nievo's "Confessions of an Italian" (1867) is a nine-hundred-page doorstop.
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" Cranston, 61, added some humor by joking, "And she uses it as a doorstop.
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He initially refused the statue, and then promised to use it as a doorstop.
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And finally, Ross has de Gaulle to make a doorstop of a biography recommendation.
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Chromebook users - you now have a doorstop for a computer if you weren't logged in.
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Look for a heavier model and use it as a doorstop to invite (or mock) guests.
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Speaking at a doorstop interview, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida condemned North Korea's latest missile launch.
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Why I was willing to waste my sobriety on a perfectly good doorstop without a second thought?
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And they serve as a doorstop — keeping glacial ice on the continent from drifting out to sea.
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Photo: Thomas Reed/MalwareBytesApple's latest iteration of iOS has reportedly turned the GrayKey hacking device into an expensive doorstop.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduces an all-electric "Cybertruck" featuring sophisticated technology and a striking resemblance to a doorstop.
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I had a comfortable job as a technical author writing those huge, doorstop type books for programmers and web developers.
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According to a press release from the police department, officers placed a bait package at a doorstop on McCandless Drive.
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By preventing access to its internal storage, Team Xecuter's code could turn the Switch into more or less a colorful doorstop.
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After finally investigating the rock he'd used as a doorstop for literal decades, Mazurek discovered it's actually a meteorite worth $100,000.
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But there will be plenty of drama when it comes to the rest of the state's doorstop of an election ballot.
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If you have your heart set on something like the giant doorstop of a book that Stefan loves, go to #3.
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Perhaps after he sells it and upholds his promise to donate to the university, Mazurek will consider investing in a real doorstop.
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The jaw-dropping photography is reason enough to buy this 400-page doorstop, but its 250-plus recipes more than follow through.
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Even his one completed attempt at a signature skyscraper — Manhattan's Pan Am tower, that prismatic doorstop straddling Park Avenue — is hard to love.
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The novel piles on loads of scary details about what the world would be like if your computer became nothing but a doorstop.
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But even before that, there was the adoption of this massive doorstop, encyclopedic framework for the social sciences, which is 842 pages long.
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This is also a concern with the Thwaites Glacier, which acts as a doorstop to a vast expanse of the central Antarctic ice sheet.
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Next time you prop open your door with a makeshift doorstop such as a stone, you might want to give it a closer look.
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After Central Michigan University Geology Professor Mona Sirbescu determined the doorstop was no ordinary rock, she reportedly sent two pieces over to the Smithsonian.
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Curry schlepped along a couple of doorstop-sized rocks and a binder full of Wikipedia printouts that he opened on the table between them.
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I wish I had, because one of the great things about doorstop books is that, aside from their climaxes, they have plenty of downtime.
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It's a doorstop, full of sound and fury, more nihilistic than Shakespeare's original, with all the blunt and dismal machinations of a soap opera.
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A doorstop is wedged under one of the legs, which the artwork label argues is a metaphor for stop-gap solutions to climate breakdown.
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Eventually, I decided to cast it in plaster to use as a doorstop, then capture a 3D rendering so I can make little keychains.
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Chiasson set up shop at the doorstop, and Connor McDavid's pass to the front of the net banked off Chiasson's leg and into the cage.
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I bought prepaid minutes by the month on cards sold in the checkout lines at grocery stores, to load onto that glorified doorstop with buttons.
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For weeks, Antonio Scurati's "M," a doorstop of a novel about the rise of the dictator, Benito Mussolini, has sat on Italian best-seller lists.
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If you're LeBron James, this all plays out in epic Cinemascope, and every evolution has the heaviness of one of those Robert Caro doorstop histories.
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For the past thirty years, he has used it as a doorstop and sent it off to school with his children for show-and-tell.
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His voluminous entries were printed in the magazine and published in 1887 as "The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom," a doorstop of a book.
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It was not so filled with ads that it was a doorstop, like the flagship magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair, but it was still robust.
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Reminiscent of a black doorstop, the Echo Show looks like an uninspired piece of tech that you'd find in a Brookstone store or SkyMall catalog.
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How cool would it be to have my freeze-dried or taxidermied foot standing around the house as a lamp or a doorstop or something?
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And her characters — with us for only a few pages, but as lasting in impression as those from a doorstop novel — catapult this book into greatness.
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In January 2018, the Grand Rapids native brought a large rock that he's been using as a doorstop to Central Michigan University geology professor Monaliza Sirbescu.
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The 19093-pound, 1,424-page doorstop that focused on the city's first three centuries won the Pulitzer Prize and was instantly hailed as a definitive history.
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In conjuring this absorbing life, Grames has created a satisfying doorstop of a book, rich in detail, tightly written and delightfully easy to get lost in.
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"A Column of Fire," Follett's newest novel, is a nearly-thousand-page doorstop focused on the religious wars of 16th-century England, with plenty of detours.
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The angular style has been compared to everything from a doorstop or an old Apple Mouse to a SpongeBob Squarepants character or a triangle on wheels.
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The discovery of such a world essentially on our doorstop would be momentous, raising hopes that (with advances in space technology) we could one day visit it.
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The chair is partially submerged by the rising flood waters, with a doorstop wedge symbolically representing the short-term, makeshift solutions we have for tackling climate change.
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"Golden Hill" is neither a shaggy-dog yarn, like "Tristram Shandy," nor a bloated doorstop, like Samuel Richardson's "Pamela," for readers with scads of time on their hands.
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In a particularly amazing storywe covered last year, one space rock took 80 years, two owners, and a stint as a doorstop before making it to a museum.
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The Cybertruck has been compared to everything from a doorstop or an old Apple Mouse to the SpongeBob Squarepants character Flats the Flounder, or a triangle on wheels.
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That's cheaper than most laptops on the market now, and doubles as a footrest, or doorstop, or deadly weapon if you can swing it by the handle hard enough.
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Humanitarian aid Trump is scheduled to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in Thursday, two important US allies on North Korea's doorstop.
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" A reviewer is tempted to dismiss the former by saying that it lives up to its title and the latter by replying, "Because of doorstop tomes like yours, pal!
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This two-part, novelistic doorstop of a play, a portrait of 21st-century gay men in search of their collective past, occupies more than six hours of stage time.
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Donna Tartt's Pulitzer-winning 2013 novel, a doorstop at nearly 800 pages, meanders (somewhat tediously, for my taste) through the youth and early adulthood of a boy named Theo.
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The angular style has been compared to everything from a doorstop or an old Apple Mouse to the SpongeBob Squarepants character Flats the Flounder, or a triangle on wheels.
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For a little entertainment, order a round of Mystery Wine—patrons who are able to correctly identify the vintage from the bar's doorstop menu win a bottle to take home.
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The Pulitzer winner Annie Proulx ("The Shipping News" and "Brokeback Mountain") returns this week with "Barkskins" a multicentury, globetrotting, 736-page doorstop about greed and the rampant destruction of forests.
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But the setup has strengthened, and I'm buying what I like to call "the most expensive doorstop" in the world for the first time since the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Now she has followed up that paper with a doorstop of a book, an intensively researched, engagingly written chronicle of surveillance capitalism's origins and its deleterious prospects for our society.
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Today, it's the Mueller report, the literary doorstop that earlier this year overtook War and Peace for the title of, Book the Most People in America Lie About Having Read.
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I start working on another jewelry order for a show we will be at in two weeks, but get interrupted by my dog hitting the doorstop — he wants to go out.
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The space rockScreenshot: CMUA Michigan man recently learned that this 22-pound rock he used for decades as a doorstop on his farm was in fact a meteorite worth over $100,000.
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This is Lawrence, the man who spends his days walking round London's west end peering into shops, not Lawrence the romantic idealist waiting for the world to arrive on his doorstop.
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Woven through FBI guidelines — a 600-page doorstop known as the "Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide," or DIOG — is a mandate to use the least intrusive means necessary to assess culpability.
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It's a doorstop of a space fantasy book that broke its author's brain — imagine Philip K Dick taking a decade to write a Choose Your Own Adventure — which only increased its allure.
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In the words of McDormand, they deserve a doorstop, and they also deserve a round of applause for the amazing things they're going to do to make sure #MeToo never happens again.
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Half a dozen Western naval powers are conducting the R&D needed to build these, according to Eric Wertheim, author of the US Naval Institute's reference doorstop "Combat Fleets of the World".
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Horowitz's doorstop report, which comes in at almost 500 pages, does not delve into conservative allegations related to the Department of Justice's handling of the investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia.
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This novel has all the hallmarks of a dense, intriguing and exciting doorstop fantasy novel that will be sure to entertain you while you're waiting for the next George R.R. Martin novel.
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" Then came the 9/11 Commission Report, a doorstop of nearly six hundred pages, written in what the Post called the "ultra-spare, purposely unemotional—yet quietly seething—language of American pain.
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The playwright Robert Schenkkan had distilled Mueller's doorstop into "The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts," with the actors reading verbatim the evidence for each alleged obstruction of justice.
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The book piles on loads of scary details about what the world would be like if your computer became nothing but a doorstop and every device in America was brought to a standstill.
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Ann and Jeff Vandermeer's doorstop of a science fiction anthology goes beyond just entertaining the reader: it looks to show off a representative slice of the history of science fiction from across the world.
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While on vacation in Mexico in 2008, Miranda cracked Ron Chernow's doorstop biography, ''Alexander Hamilton,'' which was nominated in 2004 for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the George Washington Book Prize.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., sat down last spring to dig through a trove of previously unreleased government records, it was business as usual for a researcher known for prodigious reporting and doorstop books.
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Unsurprisingly, Abloh's minimalist slogans are all over this limited-edition drop, which includes an XXL carrier boldly branded "SCULPTURE", a modernised "Mona Lisa" and a stool sporting a doorstop on one of its legs.
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He was particularly happy with one bang-bang play late in the first period when Rask stopped forwards Mathieu Perreault and Adam Lowry in rapid succession on his doorstop to keep the score 1-1.
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When Laszlo learns that the leader of City Council complains of a raccoon problem, he decides to solve it for her by killing all of them and leaving them in a heap on her doorstop.
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He's previously indulged an obsession with the life aquatic: an exhibition and Steidl-published doorstop of a book, titled "The Glory of Water," were devoted to the fountains that abound, not in Paris, but Rome.
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When Elon Musk introduced Tesla's Cybertruck, it sent the Internet into a frenzy of memes and social media posts, comparing the truck to everything from a doorstop to the SpongeBob Squarepants character Flats the Flounder.
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For decades, the values have been the heart of the state learning standards in social studies, a doorstop of a document that guides what teachers of history, civics, economics and geography cover in their lesson plans.
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Many people noticed that the chair Abloh designed for IKEA 's "Markerad" line was almost identical to a Paul McCobb spindle-back chair from his Planner Group series, although Abloh's had a red doorstop under one leg.
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Surely a movie so long in gestation, inspired by a doorstop-thick novel that has beguiled and baffled readers for several centuries, would turn out to be either a world-class catastrophe or a world-historical masterpiece.
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Cities such as Beira were smashed by two devastating cyclones this year and there is a festering Islamist insurgency in the north, which is right on the doorstop of blockbuster projects to develop vast natural gas reserves.
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Cities such as Beira were smashed by two devastating cyclones this year and there is a festering Islamist insurgency in the north, which is right on the doorstop of blockbuster projects to develop vast natural gas reserves.
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Hodor Doorstop, available on Etsy, $18No spoilers here, but your "Game of Thrones"-obsessed friends will probably consider this wooden block with a nonsensical word embossed upon it as one of the best gifts they get this year.
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With the heft of a 10-hour mini-series or a literary doorstop, this Oscar nominee for best documentary feature — narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, speaking words taken entirely from Baldwin's pages — is "life-altering," Mr. Scott added.
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Much of Monday's hearing was a public rehashing of talking points from both sides of the debate over the inspector general's report — a 500-page doorstop that has been a partisan Rorschach test in the days since its release.
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But the Blue Jackets left the puck on the doorstop with 21:2967 remaining during a scrum in front of the Capitals' net and Washington held on in the chippy game that included several dust-ups in front of both goalies.
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It was a high-concept fantasy series based on a series of popular but still niche doorstop-sized books, airing exclusively on a pricey premium cable network best known for gritty, realism-based shows like The Wire and The Sopranos.
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And as is always the case when a doorstop novel is heaved onto the stage, the inevitable shortcuts drain Bolaño's tale of its shimmering, mysterious layers, so that we seem to be watching a literal-minded sketch of events, not entering into them.
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There's definitely a retro-futuristic space-age feel to it, but more than anything it makes me want to be Tom Cruise before he had his teeth done, pegging it down the autobahn in a sports car shaped like a robotic doorstop.
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J.C. This easily could have been a 500-page doorstop of every hyperglam photo shoot Rihanna had ever posed for, but instead it's a kind of behind-the-scenes travelogue, a Shutterfly book of one of the most famous people in the world.
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In a speech on Wednesday, Barnier made clear that Johnson would not be granted a trade deal that mirrors the agreement between the European Union and Canada because Britain is on the bloc's doorstop and the two have a much larger trading relationship.
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IMAGINARY FRIENDBy Stephen Chbosky Twenty years after his smash hit novel, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," Stephen Chbosky returns with a 700-page doorstop, "Imaginary Friend" — an ambitious tale narrated through multiple perspectives, mashing together horror, fairy tales and the (rewritten) Bible.
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You really have to get Mr. Herz's book "African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence," a 640-page doorstop published when this show first appeared in Germany, to appreciate the breadth of modern African architecture, as well as its political significance and contemporary afterlives.
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Still, it is not yet clear that Mr. Cooper is condemned to four years of disdain in which Republicans in the General Assembly pass laws he is powerless to stop, while ensuring that his own initiatives land with the thud of a doorstop.
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But scientists have learned that both the air and the sea are conspiring against many ice shelves around the Poles, thinning them from above and below, and causing them to retreat inland, destabilizing the land-based glaciers they help keep in check, like a doorstop.
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In 217, Professor Burrows and Mike Wallace, a fellow professor at the City University of New York, won the Pulitzer Prize for history for their 21898,21898-page doorstop, which was instantly acclaimed a definitive, populist and novelistic account of the city's first three centuries.
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Just about anything that called for careful measuring or stud-hammering I had failed to get around to—which was why my office walls were bare, no pots yet dangled from the dangly-pot thing in the kitchen, and my bedside shelf was still a doorstop.
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Called "Beastie Boys Book" (though the front cover might lead you to believe that the actual title is "PIZZA"), it's a 571-page doorstop and a tombstone, a compendium of anecdotes, recipes, impish riffs and shaggy-dog stories and a heartfelt elegy to a much-missed friend.
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"Surely a movie so long in gestation, inspired by a doorstop-thick novel that has beguiled and baffled readers for several centuries, would turn out to be either a world-class catastrophe or a world-historical masterpiece," A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times.
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"I Am Not Your Negro" is a thrilling introduction to his work, a remedial course in American history, and an advanced seminar in racial politics — a concise, roughly 90-minute movie with the scope and impact of a 10-hour mini-series or a literary doorstop.
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BERLIN — The dual-volume doorstop of a meticulously historically annotated version of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" was one of Germany's best-selling works of nonfiction last year, its publisher said on Tuesday, announcing that it would bring out a sixth run at the end of the month.
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Amazon's upcoming Lord of the Rings show might be getting most of the attention around the streaming service's big-budget fantasy adaptations, but the company has just announced casting for nearly all the key characters in its other doorstop fantasy novel show: Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time.
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This wonderful doorstop of a book imagines England in 2052, a pinched, jingoistic country ruled with an iron fist by Henry IX (Harry9) in which a sprawling underclass of Indigents have traded their right to vote for jobs and social services; many are addicted to a hallucinogenic quaff called Flot.
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"It's been set up on the basis that it is a trade deal that can admit new members, or even re-admit a member like the United States, that chose to pull out," Turnbull told reporters at a "doorstop" event in Canberra the day after the new deal was announced.
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This tweet made me feel seen: To add insult to injury, this vegetal doorstop is served on a too-small plate with its accoutrements haphazardly flopped over the top, which means that in the process of cutting and then mixing everything together, some of it will inevitably wind up on the table.
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Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Washington Post—all invoked one of the greatest, most riveting novels of all time, which in no way has become mere shorthand for a ponderous doorstop of a book that no one in their right mind will ever read in its entirety, just like the Chilcot Report.
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Hundreds of writers from 35 countries contributed to this 888-page doorstop of a reference book, with entries arranged alphabetically and covering topics like regulations, techniques, history, cuisines, types of rinds, Mexican cheeses (there are some 60 varieties), Chinese cheeses and cheese museums: "The Oxford Companion to Cheese," edited by Catherine Donnelly (Oxford, $65).
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads This past Sunday was my first time attending Visual AIDS' Last Address Tribute Walk, a yearly walking tour that honors artists lost to AIDS-related causes, as well as sites of cultural and activist AIDS-related histories, with a doorstop reading and red rose deposited at their former residences.
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Other items we pass around during the course include a wearable personal alarm, a high-powered "door scope" that can replace your average peep-hole with a wide-angle camera lens, a doorstop alarm for hotel use, a decoy wallet stuffed with fake credit cards to dispose of in case of mugging, a mini-baton that doubles as a very heavy keychain, and a stun gun.
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JON CARAMANICA (Pearl; various configurations of seven LPs and seven CDs, $34.99-$129.99) A doorstop of a box that celebrates peak Garth-mania, that period in the early 1990s when Garth Brooks took the smoothed-out country music of the 1980s, pumped it up with steroids, gave it a polished gleam and took it to arenas around the nation (and later, to Central Park).
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