"I had an uncle who lived in Palo Alto. He lived there for 14 years and when he moved out he realized he had never talked to his neighbors even once." The speaker was Jello Biafra, the former singer for punk rock stalwarts the Dead Kennedys, and he was holding forth on that almost distinctly California weirdness where "the neighborhood" is more a premise than a real thing.It should be said now that it's a weirdness I kind of like, coming from New York, where neighborhoods had been like religions.