"My whole life I was Sammy The Bull's daughter.
There are beautiful animations: a fakir who counts on his fingers and, since the desired total is twenty, sprouts two extra arms before dissolving into the psychedelic, and doing the whole thing again in Spanish; a bluesy serpent who sings "I'm Sammy the snake.
Crab cakes and tempura shrimp, both resting on greens, were fine though standard issue, as was Sammy's chili with the usual shreds of beef, Cheddar cheese, onions and sour cream.
"Sammy being Sammy," Ms. Stewart said outside court, "he said, 'My God! Were they listening in on us, too?" Mr. Gravano pleaded guilty last year to charges that he ran a multimillion-dollar ring that sold Ecstasy to teenagers in Arizona, where he had moved as part of the federal witness-protection program.
I've seen some video of the game in action, but I don't know if pretending to be Sammy Hagar while Vince plays David Lee Roth is really worth that much.
Our second special Spaniel story, perhaps inspired by Stump himself, is Sammy the Cocker Spaniel who filmed our upcoming PSA with Regis Philbin.
"It's not just Sammy; it's Hopkins; it's Brown; it's Ellington; it's Boyd," Fisher had said this week, tallying off the Clemson receivers Sammy Watkins, DeAndre Hopkins and Jaron Brown; the running back Andre Ellington and Tajh Boydd, the quarterback and maestro.
With such important, unanswered questions floating around the aftermath of Sammy's death, it's no surprise that at Monday night's protest, the city's anger was palpable.
It's unfair to dismiss DJ Sammy's oeuvre as purely happy-hardcore grist.
As a companion-piece to his wartime novel, What Makes Sammy Run?, it's almost heartbreaking.
The story is a page turner; if it's not quite "What Makes Sammy Run?" or "A Face in the Crowd," that's because Maguire never quite manages to illuminate the inner Ed, or even to convince us that there was such a thing.
