Word: weirdness
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...time we arrived back in the U.S., the Yankees were on the verge of winning the World Series. But after seeing Kim's weird spectacles and downtrodden society, one hopes the U.S. has something pretty stiff in the bag by way of continuing deterrent. Because when it comes to control, this guy has the Yankees beat hands down...
When I go out for a drink with my friends, I always try to make them go to Scratcher. I like Scratcher. The place has weird British beers on tap. It has Christmas lights in the windows, even when it's not Christmas. I like Scratcher so much, in fact, that my friends refuse to go there with me anymore. The way I see it, I need either another group of friends or some other places to drink. That's where the new--and increasingly popular--handheld city guides come...
...www.vindigo.com and CitySync, ($19.99 at www.citysync.com) Vindigo covers most major U.S. cities; CitySync, which is produced by the people who write the Lonely Planet travel guides, doesn't include as many U.S. locations, but it does throw in cities such as London and Paris. I also brought along a weird little gizmo called Modo ($99 at www.modo.net) Modo is a city guide that runs on its own funky-looking hardware (it resembles an evil ladybug from outer space). It covers only New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco, but the beauty part of Modo is that it receives...
Once on stage, Knobler described the experience as "very surreal." "When you're up there, everything just becomes a reflex...it is quite a weird feeling," Knobler said...
...Brand New Kid (Doubleday), illustrated by Marjorie Priceman. While Couric might not want to give up her day job, the well-intentioned book (also written in rhyme) deals with the dreaded dilemma of being the new kid in school. "The other kids laughed, gee this new boy was weird./ Too different and strange to fit in they all feared." While the students at first seem almost perversely indifferent to the new boy's discomfort, an act of kindness soon shows them that just giving someone a chance is all that's needed to make a new friend...