Drowning Pool’s “Bodies” ripped through the smoke-machined air and BJ swaggered through the curtain in a taxi-yellow velour sweat suit. Hai, Sony, and Wayne looked on with bated breath as Hai realized, with sudden dismay, that BJ looked like an unhinged Big Bird from Sesame Street. It turned out two teenage boys a few rows up had the same thought and were now shouting into cupped hands, “Go get ’em, Big Bird! Yeah, go Big Bird.” Still, BJ held her own, growling to the entry song she had recorded in the HomeMarket office. Some girls in the front had even let go of their boyfriends’ hands and
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