Not much had changed over the years: the first time I met Earnhardt, seven years ago, he was trailed by a posse of handlers, who sat in chairs, on the bed and cross-legged on the floor of my hotel room, parsing my every question before allowing him to speak.
The anecdotes -- for their part -- will need more time, because there are so many I could spend the rest of my life parsing their details.
I'm not going to waste my time parsing every single stupid statement in this piece — that's reserved for things that matter — but she does get at something that I've been wondering about recently: Why are people fainting at Obama rallies?
We're perilously close to The Good Mixer, social hub of the music scene that my interviewee parsed in his misanthropic 2009 memoir Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall.
The abrupt end of my 18-year relationship left me feeling blindsided and disoriented, and my brain parsed the event as a trauma.
It was a little eerie seeing the subjects of my interest parsed so succinctly.
I also got Nothnageled by the 53 Across/50 Down crossing, because I didn't know Robb NEN, and my brain parsed the clue for 50 Down as a "state the number" question, not a "what's the format?" question.
As for the game this evening, I've spent the past two weeks parsing my personal loyalty code.
Siri is much more adept at quickly and accurately parsing my commands.
TWO DAYS LATER, while GeneDx is parsing my DNA, I'm on the phone with Susan Domchek, an oncologist studying breast cancer genes at the University of Pennsylvania.
