Word: wanders
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...decrying his sad slide, then going to Tokyo or Wales or Reno when there's money on the table. The last time we meet, at Nita's, he answers questions, poses for pictures, but he's clearly ready to do something else. What exactly, he doesn't know. Maybe wander around town, he says, and look for a game...
...SHOW ME THE MONEY: Kirkus cracks up over "Money Wanders" by Eric Dezenhall (Dunne/St. Martin's; February), giving it a starred review. "Money may wander but attention never strays in this comic debut. Dezenhall nimbly skewers the Internet, journalists, politicians, and public relations spinmeisters and their power to dupe huge numbers of people...Thoughtful, unpretentious, filled with laugh-out-loud funny scenes and delightfully realized characters. Place your bets on this winner...
Thus, I wondered, quite seriously, to what kind of community this facebook was referring. To the 174-odd people who live behind Quincy, crowd the Leverett dining hall for meals and once a week wander back to six different “residential” Houses in order to check their mail? Surely, that wasn’t the case...
Frontman Robert Nanna has a strong and plaintive, if somewhat unremarkable voice. The lyrics are mostly indistinct—which is not a huge loss to humanity—and wander mostly over onto the wrong side of the personal self-revelatory/Dadaist random incoherency divide. Nothing resembles a narrative, and characters underpin most of the songs. A fairly random sampling, from “Our Weekend Starts on Wednesday” yields: “Out of the darkness / Sings a signal to our sleep / APB for every dream / Dead within the week / Hooray...
...short cab ride southwest to Hamarikyu Garden, one of the prettiest in the city. Stroll over wisteria-covered bridges and past 300-year-old pines toward the Sumidagawa River and hop a $6 ferry to Asakusa, one of the few historic areas left in this overdeveloped metropolis. Wander through the old-time shopping arcade, picking out souvenirs like lacquered hair combs and Godzilla figurines. Follow the crowds to the site of the 7th century Sensoji temple, where you can check your odds of landing the big business deal by buying a fortune. Slip Y100 into the slot and shake...