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...Zeke Brill, 28, director of game development for Heavy.com a broadband entertainment company, works from home at least two days a week. Heavy.com's dramatic Manhattan office--all white with red floors in an old Garment Center office building--houses more than 30 people, ages 25 to 30, in one long room partitioned by white, translucent Plexiglas panels suspended from the ceiling. Behind his dividers, Brill sits with two other guys on his team. The video games on their monitors attract high traffic, and the live-action features filmed on the other side of the dividers occasionally erupt with gunfire...
...radical step: they are leaving the office. With their companies' blessing, more and more of them are working at home, at least part time. Little wonder, says researcher Brill, given how hard it is to concentrate in these places, no matter how young and hip you are. His son Zeke is a good example...
When things get too weird, a small crew of angst-ridden teenagers steps in to save the day. There's Stan, the wannabe intellectual football captain; Stokely, the grungy science fiction-reading loner; Zeke, the brilliant drug-dealing second-year senior; Delilah, the self loathing head cheerleader; Marybeth, the annoyingly innocent new girl; and finally the outcast Casey, played by Elijah Wood, who's a bit too cute for his supposedly nerdy character. Relying on Stokely's knowledge of science fiction--"if you kill the queen, everything will go back to normal... in theory"--this mismatched group of teens plots...
Luckily for them, they quickly discover that Zeke's homemade drugs (consisting mostly of water-absorbing caffeine pills) can suck all the life out of these extremely hydrophilic aliens. This leads to a hilarious yet gripping scene in which the teens must take turns snorting the drug to prove they are not possessed by the aliens...
...animal daily with a fence post. One day the bear breaks the chain, pulls off White Sut's head, and leaves it in the middle of the main road. This is widely regarded as a good joke. So is a courtroom altercation (12 dead, including the judge) in which Zeke tries earnestly to kill another lowbrow Beck. "Why dammit, I thought I had Davie choked all the way dead," he says, amazed to see a man he had just spent 10 minutes strangling rise up and wander down the street. "Usually when a man's eyes roll back like that...