One day last fall, as Rock was picking the last of our tomatoes off the vines, he took hold of a big, juicy Brandywine, which had a split down its side, and it almost exploded in his hand.
"It mushroomed after the Enron scandal, and after Sarbanes-Oxley it almost exploded," he said, referring to the 2002 law that imposed sweeping changes for accounting and corporate governance on public companies after Enron and other corporate scandals.
At first it bled like crazy, then it got so swollen it almost exploded, and then it started oozing this weird yellowish toe juice.
I couldn't help but notice the same beggar...read more "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by...read more Sometimes I am almost exploding from anger.
In this way the winter passed, with the first class parties, where we played post office and slow-danced, round and round the floor with girls we knew better than our sisters, and my head almost exploded when I held Anne Lisbet's body so close to mine.
Still, as he struck a karate pose that almost exploded his corset, he launched into 'Big Boss Man' with a fire and attack I hadn't heard from him in years and didn't expect to hear again.
Shortly after this happened, the hysteria on social media and the cable networks turned into pandemonium, and many heads, mine included, almost exploded.
