Sentence:  He starts to thank me PROFUSELY, and I tell him to can that shit. I tell him to slip me the <WSD>good word</WSD> via General Delivery, Hubbard, North Dakota. "Listen, asshole," I say, "send me a postcard from the Weird Land of Mooses." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  News, recent events, especially of a positive nature