Making wishes on a human body is the way that bread is made, I told the child with my tongue against his eardrum.
I've had my brief encounters with the hopefulness of luck; I've carried around rabbit's feet as a kid and made wishes on shooting stars, dropped money on lottery tickets and Las Vegas blackjack tables, every time thinking this would be the moment my luck changed.
His mother had given him his name; from her he'd also acquired the habit of crossing his fingers, knocking on wood, making wishes, and looking for portents.
But both albums are bipolar, with deep-seated misanthropy and pessimism sitting alongside pure, unironic love songs like "Coney Island Baby" from "Blood Money," on which he rasps, "All the stars make their wishes on her eyes".
You can each take fifty pennies and then begin throwing them into the well, making a wish on each one.
Make a wish ON A STAR, and before you know it, you've filled in the entire grid.
At the end of the session, it was time to make a wish on a purple amethyst crystal.
Throughout the series, he has shown an extreme interest in clowns; for instance, his favorite super hero is Captain Clowny, despite the time he didn't get a Captain Clowny action figure for his birthday after making a wish on a star that he would.
It's quite possible that they made this wish on a cursed Monkey's Paw and are now getting exactly what they asked for but with an ironic twist: an owner who apparently wants to be way, way too involved with basketball operations.
It makes me wish, on many nights, that I was doing a comedy.
