Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


Homeland Elegies

https://amzn.to/3n46JHX 1 This is the best book of the year. But it’s not that easy to read. Readability. It’s the number one criterion for a good book. Oftentimes that which is lauded is all about style, plot is secondary, it’s like the self-congratulatory publishing industry, and the graduates of the writing factories, can only anoint […]

More Disco Demolitiion Night

I was the format designer and consultant at THE LOOP back in the Disco Demolition era. Race or Homophobia was never even remotely discussed as a component of the promotion. It was all about the Midwest 16-34 Men that the station targeted and their disdain for the disco movement. The factors that DID play into it were […]

Re-Disco Demolition Night

I am a long time reader and I commend you for your effort in keeping everyone in this industry informed and inspired. My name is Vince Lawrence. I appeared in Frank Marshall’s Bee Gees film, discussing Disco Demolition from the perspective of a Black person who was actually in the stadium on that frightful day. […]

The Bee Gees Documentary

https://spoti.fi/37hz74o 1 I tried to see every movie. There was a time when I went every night of the week. I think the most I’ve seen in a day is four, I liked slipping into an alternative universe where I was accepted, into story, back when movies were movies, if you know what I mean. […]