Word: wonderlands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Negrohobia echoes Alice in Wonderland in places (one section is entitled "Down the Rabbitt's Rectum") and Dante's Inferno in others (Bubbles falls through the concentric underwater circles of the Harlem River which is populated with the floating corpses of pimps, numbers runners and crackheads). At times, the novel approaches the off-Kilter horror of those classic with its manic, madcap parade of freakish characters...
...GWAR show would turn my stomach. Mainstream Rolling stone ignored them, while the more clued in Spin thought they were hilarious, pushing mass culture's rampant images of sex and violence to an absolutely nauseating hilt. Their album was called America Must Be Destroyed, their forthcoming video Phallus in wonderland...
Revere Beach, on the other side of Boston, is nearly at the end of the T's blue line, right before the Wonderland racetrack stop. Revere tries harder to be a bona fide beach. The sand is whiter, the beach stretches further, and the ocean stretches outward...
Theme park? Think bigger. Mickey Mouse's custodians have spent $4.4 billion on an all-weather wonderland comprising a high-tech retro-cute amusement park, six ambitious new hotels (containing 5,200 rooms), 50 restaurants, a convention center, a campground, an 18-hole golf course and a cluster of nightclubs. They also got one big political hotfoot...
...come back to Wonderland a few times. Afterthe first time, I stopped noticing the dogs'names. I stopped noticing the names of theirowners, kennels, trainers sires, dams. I stoppedthinking about the cruelty of the sport. I learnedto play the numbers, the percentages. I realizedthat I wasn't betting against the track--Whichtakes it cut no matter who wins-- but againstWayne and the rest of the Wonderland masses, and Ibet accordingly...