Bay Ridge, 1976

[purejuice]

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This was only slightly less electrifying than the original New York magazine story.
http://nymag.com/nightlife/features/45933/

Nik Cohn sort of made the whole story up.

But we really did walk down the street that way. Thanks, Bee Gees.

Comments

[sandor_baci]

Wasn't he beautiful?

And now he can't even get a handjob from a cruise-ship masseur.

Evidence that all those e-meter sessions did NOT confer the power to fulfil desires... "operating thetan" status or no.

[purejuice]

oh god, it kills me to think all that BS religion was about going straight. oh lord.

[sandor_baci]

Him and Tom Cruise... yeah, sign that check and we'll give you superpowers that include HARD DICK WITH GIRLS.

[franklanguage]

Yeah, well…they tried.

[uberconfused]

I remember seeing Saturday Night Fever when I was very young, and my mom and I used to dance to the soundtrack in our basemen (on our shag carpet) at least once a week. Imagine my surprise when I grew up and my Saturday nights were not even a little bit like that.

[franklanguage]

You mean your mom didn't dance with you anymore?

[uberconfused]

She sure didn't, though primarily I was referring to my life generally being unlike a night at the disco in Brooklyn.

[purejuice]

a disco childhood! i can't think of anything more fun.

[purejuice]

i truly think it was a grassroots phenom that would have flourished with or without mr. cohn's mendacious attentions. people like to dance.

"there was nothing wrong with funk that was improved by disco."

[franklanguage]

Tell me about it…I still feel slightly ridiculous dancing to the Bee Gees or Andrea True and a little less ridiculous dancing to P-funk.