"People will knock on your door, flash a wad of money and ask if you can drive this bale of marijuana up north," said Marla Henry, 38, chairwoman of Chukut Kuk district, which covers much of the border zone.
Someone near the band lit a sparkler and began shouting "C'mon, Prince Nelson!" A woman with a tribal tattoo on her right shoulder blade danced as a television above the door flashed images of memorials to the singer elsewhere in the city.
The camera zooms in on his balcony, and his address and a route to his door flash up on the screen.
The 36-year-old coach opened the door, flashed them a smile strung with shiny metal braces and introduced herself.
The attractive women who met me at the door flashed bedroom smiles and gazed into my eyes unabashedly naked flirtation in any other context here, a sign of their status as permanently "turned on" women, a sensation one practitioner described as the feeling of "falling in love with no one in particular".
Small robots — like R2-D2 in "Star Wars" — crawled through some of the doors, flashing back live video of the startled enemy's positions.
You expect to see this ESPN troop kick in clubhouse doors, flash their gold ESPN reporter shields and shout, "Drop your syringe, skell, we're the E 60 Squad!" The four features were well produced, but three had significant roots in stories that appeared elsewhere.
Again and again, he goes through the motions — yanking the heavy outer doors, stretching the safety gate, steering the car while counting the floors as doors flash by.
"They would bust the door down, flashing their guns, flashing their badges".
When one creditor comes banging on the door, Shuji flashes a wad of bills and pays him off.
