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...large as 100 individuals, hikes and climbs through high-altitude, wooded terrain for three days without food or sleep. They are not allowed to slow their pace except for a few naps. At the end the hungry and thirsty survivors are given a goat, a knife and a matchbox. That's their reward, and they have to cook and eat it in warlike conditions...
...brightest porch light on the block. Get over it. I frankly don't expect much from him; neither do you; and that's the best thing he has going for him. If he so much as clears a matchbox, we'll all fall back in wonder. Think how pleasantly surprised we're going to be when we discover George W. is, as he has been all his life, sort of adequate. Not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door...
...welder," he said--not just any welder but a narco welder, who refits ships to hide drugs. Marnet walked to a cargo vessel, where two large generators powered the torches he said his pals were using to solder double hulls and other secret compartments. On a matchbox, he drew the designs they were following. He then pointed to their nearby bosses, who were opening Samsonite suitcases stuffed with cash in full view of police on the dock. "The sun is very bright in Haiti," Marnet said sarcastically. "It makes it hard for the police to see these things...
Neil Young was right: rock 'n' roll can never die. The wildly talented alternative-rock band Nirvana, so self-aware and yet so self-destructive, penned rock's suicide note. Hootie-lite fluff bands like Matchbox Twenty supplied the sleeping pills. And gangsta-rap acts like Jay-Z, gloating over their genre's dominance in the marketplace, delivered the eulogy. But rock still isn't dead. In fact, in the past two years it has been rejuvenated creatively and commercially by hip-hop rock acts such as Deftones and others. And this week rock receives another jolt of new life...
Thirty years from now, is anybody going to want to buy a boxed set of Britney Spears outtakes? Three decades from today, are young musicians going to trek to the studio where Matchbox Twenty used to record so they can get that "Rob Thomas vibe"? You don't have to answer these questions now. Let's talk in September...