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...imagined either. In their first two years in town, says Mike, strangers waved from passing cars, and everyone seemed to know everyone else, "but we were on the outside looking in. People were outwardly friendly, but that was like a mask. 'Hello, how you doing? Come over anytime.' Slam--here comes the door." Some of their neighbors simply resent newcomers. An elderly woman across the street has two dogs that relieve themselves in the Dooleys' front yard. Politely and repeatedly, Mike asked her to control them. Finally, the woman blew up at him. "We don't like you," she hissed...
...years I have been into computers. I remember my family's firstmachine: an Apple IIe. My favorite digital pastime was playing "Dr. J. vs. Larry Bird" and breaking the backboard with a slam dunk so the little cleanup man would come out with his squeaky cart to clean it up like onWoody Woodpecker. But I digress...
...want to pay taxes to a smiling man with a name tag and a button that says WE WORK FOR YOU. You want a Grand Slam breakfast from that guy. You want to pay your taxes to a balding, bespectacled old curmudgeon, preferably overweight and incapable of making eye contact. If you're going to get milked by the government, you want to walk away feeling completely screwed...
...full, pure sound that would occur by set's end, the venue at first threatened to crumble up the concert and slam-dunk it in the trash: during a thrillingly explosive opener, "Ocean Size," the first crowd rush collapsed the plainly insufficient band cage. The crowd--a mixture of 12-year-olds impersonating 15-year-olds, 15-year-olds imitating 21-year-olds and the walking braindead successfully being themselves--moaned and groaned at the subsequent 45-minute delay as a new cage was assembled. Woe betide the band that starts a concert thus; momentum at this point would have...
...Grand Slam...