The Jackie Collins of tax law textbooks

"Meet the Jackie Collins of tax law textbooks: http://ow.ly/2n6QJ"
(Aug. 9, 2010, Misty Harris, Twitter)

The James Dean of donuts

"the james dean of donuts."
(May 2, 2010, etherjag, Flickr)

The Mini-Me of sea serpents

"The blue ringed octopus is the mini-me of sea serpents."
(Feb. 3, 2010, Huffington Post)

The Chris Rock of satyrs

"Percy's pals Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario) and Grover (Brandon T. Jackson) are also tweaked to grab hipper, older teens. Think 'Xena: Warrior Princess' meets the Chris Rock of satyrs and that sums up these sidekicks and the crowd they should pull in."
(May 13, 2010, Pulp's Movie Reviews)

The Tom Petty of microwavable foods

"Looking at the photo, two things should be apparent. First, on a purely visual level, this is the Tom Petty of microwavable foods. Second - and relatedly - the meal on the box does not look like the meal in my bowl."
(March 27, 2009, Justin B., ...from the front burner)

The Mark Wahlberg of holidays

"As a kid you would get candy; unless you got toothbrushes from pretentious dentists. Or maybe you were like me and lived by creepy farmers who chased you with pitchforks because grain alcohol makes a 4'6'' Frankenstein a feasible reality. Halloween was great as a kid because candy was everything; but even as you got older you still loved it, just for a different reason. Halloween evolved... it’s like the Mark Wahlberg of Holidays. (In the sense that as a kid, you loved Marky Mark's work with the Funky Bunch, but now you really appreciate his dramatic acting abilities in films like The Departed.)"
(Nov. 1, 2007, The Truth Brush)

The Louis C.K. of poetry criticism

"News at Eleven: But [David] Lehman's particular theme this year is the state of poetry criticism, and he doesn't hold back: 'Poetry criticism at its worst today,' Lehman asserts, 'is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent,' and he goes on from there to apply an especially vigorous flogging to the critic William Logan, who is sort of the Louis C.K. of poetry criticism, and who has written, for example, that reading the work of C.K. Williams is 'like watching a dog eat its own vomit.'"
(Sept. 22, 2009, Rus Bowden, Poetry & Poets in Rags)