Denis Johnson's wildly ambitious new novel, "Tree of Smoke," reads like a whacked-out, hallucinogenic variation on such whacked-out, hallucinogenic Vietnam classics as Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now," Michael Herr's "Dispatches," Robert Stone's "Dog Soldiers" and Stephen Wright's "Meditations in Green".
And, unless another whale surfaces, the price could continue fluctuate, continuing upset the bitcoin herds as their investments pop up and down like a whack-a-mole.
Rather than get into that, however, I'd like to explain how to pitch someone like me — a busy journalist and entrepreneur who treats LinkedIn like a whack-a-mole weekly chore that has become more a bad habit than necessity.
I'd much rather get a poorly transcribed voicemail message ("hey john this is kevin ray from you start sorry to bug you again on the phone minutes away") and get the gist of the conversation awaiting me than wait for a message from a warranty renewal service to pop up like a whack-a-mole.
It's almost like a whack-a-mole game, in a sense.
Strategies in those countries can seem like a whack-a-mole game in which destroying crops in one area leads to them popping up somewhere else.
And it just keeps coming back like a whack-a-mole, even thought it's been discredited so many times," Elizabeth Nash, Senior State Issues Associate at the Guttmacher Institute, told VICE.
After all, Tony Blair never really went away; he could hardly shut up throughout last year's Labour leadership campaign and beyond, constantly popping up like a whack-a-mole to obliviously announce how little understanding he actually has of politics.
Given everyone at this party looks like a whack-ass, flunky English professor or a pothead librarian with a couple cats, but hey, we're all just looking for our piece of the pie.
