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Chapter 2 - Paradox Personified
That vast emptiness expanded against an endless horizon. A glimmer of light from a nearby station beacon created a halo effect in the canopy, nearly blinding Isaac. He turned his Viper away and began to plot a course in the navigation system. Next to the nav system was a heads up display with a current contract he had taken on. With a month of downtime in the 7 Kappa Delphini system he had to make some form of profit. Small-time pirate bounties were also the perfect way to test his mechanical handy work. With a fixed FSD and a newly installed FSD Interdictor he was feeling confident or at least less worried.
The radio chimed on, it was Schottky Platform's relay control tower.
"Good luck and have a safe flight, Commander."
Isaac responded quickly as he was already charging up the Frame Shift Drive.
"Thank you very much."
He had a course plotted to the Stefna system - a short 8 LY jump away. Isaac shifted in his seat to get comfortable before the few slightly discomforting moments of bending space and time. Aligned with the general direction of Stefna, the computer took over seconds before the jump initiated to line up perfectly - which made up for the slightest of human imperfection. With the computer countdown complete the FSD warped Isaac and his Viper at an unmeasurable speed through a rip in space. For first timers it's disconcerting to say the least - passing through a swirling tunnel of lights and colors that more or less represented the Big Bang. Isaac yawned.
As he came out of light speed into a cruising speed of about 5Mm/s the central star of Stefna filled his canopy view. He gently veered right and rolled the ship so that the star shined against the Viper's belly. The fuel scoop activated automatically and started filling the tanks as he got within an acceptable range. Isaac flicked a customized toggle switch next to his throttle and immediately the cockpit filled with music.
A year prior he had done a job for a venerable Baron that had amassed millions of digitized music albums from Sol's Golden Era. The reward for his completed contract was a sliver of the Baron's collection - more than enough for any one person. A colleague in Yakabugai had assisted him in installing the digital music player that piggybacked off of the cockpit's radio speakers, which pleasantly played Strawberry Letter 23 by The Brothers Johnson.
Once far enough away from the star he pulled back on the throttle so that he was moving at 30km/s, a snail's pace in cruise mode. He bobbed his head to the beats of the music while checking the sensors - no contacts yet. Isaac was on the lookout for a local wanted criminal by the name of Alan Kerr. Apparently Kerr had a nasty habit of ambushing light transport ships with a modified Sidewinder MKI ship and salvaging whatever cargo was left behind. Most recently he had been seen in the Stefana system, where he would sit by the star and wait for ships to refuel before jumping again.
He played it cool, cruising slowly without changing direction and suddenly a HUD notification popped up: 1 new contact. He quickly checked the computer, which identified it as a Sidewinder MKI.
"Hello," Isaac said to himself with a smile. On the radar the Sidewinder was behind him at 6 o'clock high. Isaac kept his course, but increased his speed ever so slightly. He yawed his Viper left and suddenly brought the throttle down all the way and the trailing Sidewinder blew past. Isaac targeted the ship and scanned it immediately. The scanning system populated the holographic targeting screen with information:
Sidewinder MKI
Alan Kerr
Found you, he thought to himself. After the scan completed he activated the FSD Interdictor module and soon he was yanking Alan out of Cruising speeds. A smile grew across Isaac's face, it was working perfectly. Throttling up he matched speeds and stayed on Kerr's tail until the module completed the interdiction, which brought both of them out of cruising speeds - and more specifically with the Sidewinder tumbling. While Kerr's thrusters struggled to stop the ship from flipping end over end Isaac used his Kill Warrant Scanner, which was an uplink module for universal data on wanted pilots - the more information on all the systems they were wanted in, the higher the bounty reward.
"Who the hell do you think you are?" The comm-radio crackled, Alan was clearly distressed and possibly getting sick. Isaac clicked his tongue in annoyance - it was interrupting his music, which was just a few seconds into a track called Beaumont's Lament.
Begrudgingly he paused the music as Alan regained control of his ship and was beginning to turn it about.
"Sadly, Kerr, I'm just here to collect a bounty," Isaac said, unpausing the music track.
He let out a chuckle at Kerr's curt response and deployed the Viper's forward weapon hardpoints - two gimballed beam lasers and two fixed 6-barrel multi-cannons. Kerr immediately changed direction and increased speed and Isaac happily pursued. Back in his element and not rotting in a decaying station on the ass-end of nowhere actually made him relaxed.
The Sidewinder rolled several times and looped downward in an attempt to get under Isaac's Viper. He pushed down on his flight stick and engaged the vertical thrusters at the same time, tracked the top of the Sidewinder and fired a long continuous shot with the gimballed beam lasers. In a few mere seconds the blueish hues of Kerr's reacting shields dissipated to nothing, leaving scorch marks by his engines where the lasers punched through.
"What can I give you to let me go?" Alan begged over the comm. The targeting computer showed the Sidewinder's shields recharging. For a moment Isaac thought about the desperate question as he rolled to get right behind his bounty's speeding ship - still naked without shields.
"Not a thing, Kerr." He stated as he pulled the secondary fire trigger for the multi-cannons, which began a short spooling sequence. He aimed slightly ahead of the Sidewinder and unleashed the Multi-cannons while simultaneously firing the Beam Lasers again. The hull was chewed through in seconds. The Sidewinder pulled up, showing a big profile to shoot at and with one final burst from the cannons it tumbled out of control and burst apart.
Isaac slowed his ship to a crawl and inspected the scattered remains of Alan Kerr's ship, which would keep floating in the same directions forever until they eventually ran into something - a star, a planet, or even another ship as bits of annoying debris. A somewhat sobering tale of what happened to many pilots out in the black. A feeling of accomplishment washed over him as he began to charge the Frame Shift Drive to head back to 7 Kappa Delphini. It was time to collect his things in his cramped, rented room and head back home to Yakabugai. Isaac's business was done here.

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Friday, September 4, 2009
Todd's Sway Lounge & Todd's Other Side - Detroit, Michigan (Gay Bar)
66 comments:
Wow, Todd's was the first bar I ever went to, in 1987. Really enjoyed that place.ReplyDelete
I believe the reason they closed was the owners (Bob & Dan) had some "tax problems", plus one of them was in poor health. I can find out from my friend, Danny, who used to work there back in the 80s, and who know owns "The Rainbow Room". Great blog!!
- AnonymousSeptember 11, 2009 at 11:27 AM
I used to go to this club periodically. This is the club where Jennifer Foxx used to work as a bartender. If I'm not mistaken he did his first shows here. They had a front bar/lounge and then a main floor disco. I remember there was a sign in the lounge that said "Tipping is not a city in China". I was always amused by that! I also remember seeing Mary Wilson from the Supremes here, it was really sad, she couldnt even fill the place and at the same time Diana Ross was selling out at other venues in the city. That had to be around '82-'83.ReplyDeleteReplies
They also had a sign that read: Fish f**k in our water, therefore water is $1.Delete
They also had a sign that read: Fish f**k in our water, therefore water is $1.Delete
I remember they also had s sign on the wall that said "Fish fuck in out water, therefore it is $1.00". I loved that place. Monday's and Thursday's were Punk night I believe. Maybe Wednesdays and Saturdays were Gay night. I remember that Noir Leather had a fashion show while we were there...awesome fashions!Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2009 at 2:07 AM
Todds was a bowling alley in 1965; it might have been called "Nortown Lanes", My mother bowled there! When it opened as a gay bar in the mid 70s, only the bar side was open. We danced on a raised platform in the middle of the room next to the juke box. Soon the bar was expanded and in addition to the HUGE dance floor (where the bowling alley lanes were), one could go into the basement and socialize in several rooms. Around 1980, Thursdays became new wave or punk night, with DJs playing B52s, etc. I remember dancing around a portable TV in the middle of the dance floor. Some people danced whilst standing on their heads. Drag shows were big, with Jennifer Fox holding court. I remember a nice man named Dennis tending bar the entire time I went to Todds, By the way, down the street was the Akron Health Club (gay bath house), which used to be a hobby shop in the mid 1960s when I lived in the neighborhood. I stopped attending and left Detroit altogether in 1984. Go Nortown!ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2014 at 12:40 PM
Do you remember Keith Joins or George Daniels. They use to be a couple. If you remember one of the other let me know. I know Keith he is very much older than me and I am trying to help get him some old friends since his partner George died. I am 23. email is firstname.lastname@example.com
I went to Todd's the first time in 1978 after the disco opened. Dennis was the bartender then (he's at the Gold Coast now) and was also known as Rita Porter. Does anyone else remember Arno's boutique at Todd's?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 28, 2009 at 3:06 AM
Ken Collier was my memory! (God bless his soul). Ken and his brother Greg... the KINGS of HOUSE!!!! It was 1982 for me... Thursday and Saturday nights... Yes, '82 was when it all started! We'd get dolled up, and ride down 7 mile to get our party ON! We'd dance thru the fog machine... thru the thump of the House beats... thru the cRaZy-NesS of the light show... then gather downstair to hear some talented soul on the piano, and chit-chat over cocktails~ Pure party-time! Pure fun! My heart skips a beat and my face smiles with every memory I had there! I hate that that time of life has passed, but I welcome the memory ............Signed.. 40-somethin' mother of 3! (...and my kids think I'm lame! ROFLMAO)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2009 at 9:45 PM
You'll find Dennis working now at the Gold Coast. He's just as kind and sweet as he was 30 years ago at Todd's.ReplyDelete
- ColumboDecember 15, 2009 at 4:36 AM
Who was that soulful female pianist that played downstairs? She had a wonderful voice and they played her music on some of the local jazz stations.ReplyDelete
Saw Mary Wilson of the Supremes do a show there. Gladys Knight attended.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 22, 2010 at 11:19 PM
Good times... A different kind of "elitist" than what one experiences in NY or LA. It's really where I found my freak flag. I think about Nancy Sinatra's "These boots are made for walking", all the punks would skank around in circles in their combat boots. Long Live!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 9, 2010 at 5:14 PM
In the mid-80s, I (a future lesbian) and my straight / alternative male friends all loved this place and its cool, mixed vibe. I remember being in the packed women's bathroom with some drag queens one time. Because it was too crowded, the androgynous girls in there were telling the drag queens to get out and go to the men's room. Meanwhile, the drag queens were yelling that THEY were the real women, because they actually looked like women. Awesome!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 21, 2010 at 11:03 AM
Todd's 1985. DJ Charles English. Circle skanking to Ball Room Blitz. Dancing the "swami". Dancing with Benson. Great memories. Met my ex-husband, bartender, Ken, there. I did get kicked out a few times though.! LOL!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 28, 2010 at 11:19 AM
I loved Al, Charles and tripped on those damn bowling alley floors nmore than onceReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 1, 2010 at 4:08 PM
Todds reunion at Corktown Tavern april 3 2010 with DJ Charles English!!ReplyDelete
Were any of you were present at the Todd's reunion nights.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 11, 2010 at 10:16 AM
where are all of the old drag queens from detroit in the 80 s? like humming helen toni king kelly and the photo players?cant forget jennifer fox ?ReplyDelete
It was also known as Todd's Bowling Disco. First time I heard Machine's "There But for the Grace of God go I." East side bars were always a bit tacky but lots of fun. Does anyone remember the Blue Boy with it's piss elegant "Greek god" statues & zebra striped wall paper? Also, the Bitter Lemon? Met a blond guy there once & we went back to his gas station & wrestled in the grease pit.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2014 at 12:45 PM
Do you remember Keith Joins or George Daniels. They use to be a couple. If you remember one of the other let me know. I know Keith he is very much older than me and I am trying to help get him some old friends since his partner George died. I am 23. email is email@example.com
- AnonymousApril 18, 2010 at 7:35 PM
i have a bootleg copy of Sepultura playing at Todds in 91....it is very horrible quality, but still cool to haveReplyDelete
Aw, this was a really quality post. In theory I'd like to write like this too - taking time and real effort to make a good article... but what can I say... I procrastinate alot and never seem to get something doneReplyDelete
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 24, 2010 at 4:35 PM
Todd's was ALWAYS a gay bar! The pianist was named Mickey Braden. It didn't become huge and Legendary until Ken and Greg Collier took up residency there and worked the turntables and lights.ReplyDelete
Todd's is THE most legendary gay club Detroit has ever had.
REUNION July 31, 2010 at 10 Critics (the old Porter Street Station). Trumbull and Porter Street. 8-4am
I have not ever been there. But it is closed, which make a pity to me. As I want to try there once.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2010 at 9:04 AM
Todd's was the best Monday's and Thursdays in the early to mid 80's. Punk and tripped out new wave and bauhaus jams. The downstairs was called the Video Coffin I think. They played twisted low grade horror like "last house on the left" and I spit on your grave". People would just blaze down there, and there was this hot bartender named Marla down there making her own drink, man I forget what it was called but I drank like 90 of them. First and only time I had a gun in my face was leaving that bar once in 1986, but anyways it was the best place ever. It's now a CVS or some shit, completely gone.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 5, 2010 at 6:08 PM
Child, Todd's was a gay club. Whoever said something about it being punk/rock got the wrong bar honey.ReplyDelete
I miss it though boo.
- Crazy DanSeptember 28, 2010 at 4:09 AM
God Bless Dennis Ashby who passed away on September 18 2010ReplyDelete
you will always be remembered in many ppl's hearts
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2010 at 9:16 PM
Dan, was Dennis a bartender recently working at Gold Coast? MikeReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 29, 2010 at 4:09 PM
yes it is true our beloved Dennis has passed. He left us on Sept 18,2010. One of Todds main attractions and a stand up guy if there ever was one. Visit his memorial page on line and pay homage to good man.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 17, 2010 at 1:35 PM
Four things I remember about Todd's alternative night:ReplyDelete
1. Skinheads before they were racist but still scary
2. Sign about bar: "fish fuck in our water therefore it is $.25"
3. Scetchy scene down in the basement with weird movies and junkies
4. All kinds of people (gay, straight, punks, disco) having fun...which is rare in any city let alone Detroit.
- AnonymousNovember 30, 2010 at 5:48 PM
todds was one of the first bars i got into when i was still in high school. they had gay night and new-wavey music nights- went to both and this was in the late 80's-early 90's. i also remember seeing the mighty mighty bosstones play there, i got knocked out and dickey barrett offered to buy me a drink later on but i turned him down (XXX). i remember we always parked in the mcdonald's across the street, and there was also a little thrifty-resale kind of boutique in there too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 12, 2011 at 10:19 AM
Ah TODD's! A Mecca for the Gay and Punk youths of Detroit in the 70s,80s and early 90s.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 7, 2011 at 1:44 PM
RIP Dennis, thanks for the memories! I was a Barback working there 87 & 88. I made something ridiculous like $30 a night but just being a part of the action was payment enough for me. Monday & Thursday was a punk crowd while Wednesday & Saturday was a gay crowd. I met my first love there through beautiful Marla. I don't think any of us realized just what magic was being created until after it was all over, we were all just having a good time. Missed the reunions, maybe someday there will be another...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 8, 2011 at 9:57 PM
Started going to Todd's in '81 or '82...loved loved loved it...one of the few places in the D that ignored race,orientation, or whatever..Saw the Violent Femmes there the first time..(about 10 people in attendance) next time there.. packed. Fell on those flipping bowling lanes and planted rose patterned bruises on my knees from my then so hot panty hose...I could go on....ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 17, 2011 at 8:13 PM
Diane's comment---I use to go there all the time, I loved itReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 19, 2011 at 1:01 AM
I was a good friend of Bob calvert and his partner Dan and helped put up the disco lighting and Arno's boutique among other things they were the best thing to happen to Detroit in 1977 and dont forget Roger and Al (fluffy) Dennis, Paula Prentis,Ms Edie and the rest of the gang ,unfortunalty it was the punk rockers that killed the bar they were dirty and caused many problems with the regular gay crowd so hence Menjo's picked up as the place to go,It was truly a great loss.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2014 at 12:42 PM
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I am just seeing this insane comment. I can assure you that it was NOT the Punks who killed TODD's. AIDS Killed TODD's. Bob Calvert and his staff LOVED the New Wave/Punk Crowd. We made them more money and beyond a fight here and there were rarely an issue. We had Mondays and Thursdays and the Gay Crowd had Wednesday and Saturday. Friday Nights were open for Live Music.Delete
- AnonymousAugust 15, 2011 at 11:58 PM
IT MAY HAVE BEEN A BOWLING ALLEY AND A LOT OF OTHER THINGS, BUT IN THE EARLY 90S IT WAS STILL CALLED TODDS BUT WAS A VENUE FOR HEAVY METAL BANDS SEEN SEPUTURE THERE IN 91! LIVED RIGHT DOWN THE STREET FROM IT ON LINNHURST AND 7 MILE!ReplyDelete
When Todd's first opened on Tuesdays they had the pac man contests, high score would win a pac man beer mug, I also met my soul mate there who was married and lived in Grosse Pointe we were together till he passed in 1991 I still keep his picture on the night stand by my bed.ReplyDelete
Todd's was trendy but not pretentious or clique you went there you had big fun in the main bar or at the sing-a-longs down stairs or the huge Disco where the music was thumping.
Motown celebs performed there and film prducers from Born Free and other movies could be found at the downstairs sing-a-longs before karaoke took over, but alas Todd's is gone now and lost is that golden age of Detroit's best gay bar at it's peak,but oh the memories will live on.
- DetroitMan42August 24, 2011 at 12:09 PM
When the House movement began, Todd's was one of the first Clubs to introduce the genre to me. I was 16 in 1985. The drinking age was 21 but that did not matter. I went with a group of friends to dance the night away to House & Techno to the break of dawn.ReplyDelete
I remember that "Mary" was one of the cocktail girls in the front bar. We also used to stash our own liquor that we brought into the club. She would do shots with us & we would get as "full" (drunk as we could get)
What I loved was the free spirit. Everyone was accepted. It was only about having fun and being at a great party every night.
The last time I went I was car jacked at 7 mile & Van Dyke. At the Shell Station. I was lucky then because I left alive. They only took my car at gunpoint.
At that point the party ended for me at Todd's and then we only went to Club Taboo.
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2011 at 2:11 AM
TODD's was my very first bar with BENSON !! i became good friends with dennis he was actually the very first person to say i should do drag everybody thought i was a girl anyway lol , i started going to st. andrews & the shelter , AMIR there gave me my start there ! but i still think of DENNIS & remember if it wasn't for him i wouldn't have a 27 year career in female impersonation !!!dennis & i worked togethere alot i also hosted the booty contest at the gold coast from 92 thru 97 with dennis watching over me from behind the bar !! for those that can remember i'm sure you know who i am !!!living in fabulous SAN FRANCISCO now where punk /goth/new wave whatever has never died loving my life !!!!STILL DANCING IN THE DARK (RUBY HOLIDAY )ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2011 at 11:40 AM
Todd was the first real punk bar I attended in 1985 -88 time frame. What a discovery! It was a total escape with the amazing thumping sound system, the awesome light show, the scary neighbor hood and all the strange people. representative from the skin-head, gothic, gay and straight world all co-existed together. For a blue colar suburban boy it was quite a shock but I learned to love the vibe there. Me and my CCS college buds would be there religiously on thursday nighTs and WE would close the place down. Great memories for a 40-something guyReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2012 at 6:23 AM
When I went to todds in 78/79 it was gay with a 98% black crowd. Fun, Fun!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2012 at 1:36 PM
I used to go to Todd's back in like 1986-1990. I was usually on the arm of a girl named Amy Halloran. Amy and I were called "the twins" by some since we both sported the same platinum do's and we were always together. I met some of my best friends there and we still keep in touch. Desi, Ramona, Al, Holly, George.ReplyDelete
I remember one time, before I was 21, Marla almost kicked me out for drinking but I was just holding someone's beer. And I remember bottle Molson's were $1 US or Canadian.
Man, my friends and I STILL talk about that place like it was yesterday. Now, in our mid 40s, we talk about you, Todd's, and smile. Some of the best times ever! A place where we could get away and just be us. Pure cceptance!
I was saddened at learning of Dennis' passing....what an amazing human being!
Anyone know what happened to Marla?
Take care all!
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012 at 5:44 PM
Does a real cool guy named Dean.???He was real skinny, I think he was from canada like windsor.He was alot of fun.ReplyDelete
- Rob from WindsorSeptember 13, 2012 at 3:30 PM
Can't remember how, when or why me and a group of friends dicovered Wednesdays at Todd's but for 4? years in the late 80s, it was the weekly cross-border outing, along with concerts at St.Andrews followed by the Shelter. Saw The Pogues with Joe Strummer, a definite highlight; low stage, understanding bouncers who helped you stand up, but Wednesday was the night. Always bittersweet when 'Heroes' came on but there was always next week....ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2013 at 12:37 PM
How about all the great bands on we'd nights the gun club,gbh,the cramps I thinks the replacements may have played there. If only my kids could experience that PeaceReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 9, 2013 at 7:25 PM
I used to party at Todd's on Saturday nights, when they played house music...it was mostly a black crowd on Saturday nightsReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2013 at 12:45 AM
does anyone remember Tony, who use to own the bar? He was a puggish red head....tried to hit on me at the Blue Boy back in 1975/1976ReplyDelete
Tony, if you are out there, the answer is still NO
- AnonymousJune 25, 2013 at 11:33 PM
Wow - this was our groups fave amongst the fun/underground/new wave/alternative bars in the Detroit area. Their was The Majestic, City Club, The Shelter/St.Andrews, 3-D (Royal Oak),ReplyDelete
and a handful of other's which I mostly forget now, but Todd's was consistently the funnest/best of them all. Like Ms. Amy Halloran's friend commented above, it was a buck for a Molson or Labatt's, and the crowd was usually pretty fun, laid back and not too concerned.
Me and my pal's from Royal Oak would be there most every Monday and Thursday to listen, drink and dance to DJ Charles English and others. Crazy as it seems, I actually miss those days sometimes...
I first went to Todd's in 1979 when it was "Todd's Bowling Disco" because the disco part used to be a bowling alley. Who can forget Dennis (aka Rita) at the bar on the lounge side. Another neat feature was Arno's boutique on the disco side...where I got my first and only pair of clear plastic disco pants--which I never had the guts to wear in public.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2014 at 12:41 PM
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- AnonymousMay 12, 2015 at 9:52 PM
Well, my memories of Todd's are different from the rest of you! I went there one time only, in my early 20s, to see Spinal Tap! That's right, the "band" actually toured some clubs right after the movie came out. I still have my ticket stub: 7/13/1984. Probably would have gone more often but I lived too far away.ReplyDelete
First time I went to Todd's was August of 1982 to see Altered Images with my fake ID...I was 16...best club ever...the bands, the crowd, all the sex that went on in that place...fond memoriesReplyDelete
First time I went to Todd's was August of 1982 to see Altered Images with my fake ID...I was 16...best club ever...the bands, the crowd, all the sex that went on in that place...fond memoriesReplyDelete
We loved Todd's in the mid 80's. Loved to see the tranny Paula as the coat check girl. Jerry X worked the Video Cauldron down in the basement. We danced on that old bowling alley floor.. DJ Charles English mixing it up!! Loved it there!!ReplyDelete
Thursday punk nights were all that in the late 80's. In my mid forties and I still remember.ReplyDelete
- Jeff AkehurstJune 24, 2017 at 6:12 AM
I frequented Todds. I knew Miss Porter well. It was shocked when I heard he passed. Does anyone know what the circumstances? Please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Also someone questioned what happened to all the old drag Queens. I know several have passed away. The ones that come to mind are:
Gladass G Rivers 1980s
Boulevard Blanche 1990s
Humming Helen 1980s late
Rita Porter 2014
Vanessa LaSalle date unknown
Carrie Fisher date unknown
Remember, we lost a great deal of the generation to HIV.
Marshall, Dennis, and Roger....They were Todd's! miss themReplyDelete


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I'm launching the Murmuration blog with something I'll likely never do again: a first-person narrative. A paean to me, it could be argued. Or (worse), a "humblebrag".
But I've given this post lots of thought, not only in writing the actual content, but also in whether this ought to be my blog's introduction to the world.
I decided it should, and there are reasons beyond simple self-promotion. (OK, I must admit that there is some self-promotion involved, but when you think about it, all blogging must have some element of self-promotion; it's almost tautological.
My defense, in short: I'm going somewhere with this. The story of Moveable Feast Mobile Media (MFMM) is, I think, an excellent introduction to where I'd like this blog to go. So if you have time to read a somewhat-lengthy but I-hope-not-too-boring story of how I tried and failed to build a successful mobile media company, please read on!
My future posts will be more focused on observing, analyzing, and informing. I hope to provide useful, practical advice on data & media ecosystems, entrepreneurship, analysis, and a few other things in which I've picked up some expertise or hard-learned lessons. And there might be a post or two with opinions on society & culture, because I'm old enough to think my opinions have some merit.
The Backstory
Part I: A Brief History of Me
It was 1991 – the Fall quarter of my first year of business school. I was working on a team project for Organizational Behavior (which is Ph.D.-speak for Human Resources), and we used some classmate connections so we could study a local Fortune 500 company in detail from the inside.
We interviewed several senior managers, including the CEO, to propose some solutions-to-unasked-questions about their Organizational Behavior. The idea was that we'd treat the subject company as a consulting client.
I remember suggesting to the group that the "client" needed "a database that could keep track of employees and all the relevant information about them". Reading this now, you might say, "Yeah. So?" But consider this was 1991: around the same time that Windows 3.0 introduced support for sound cards and CD-ROMs. Besides, the client didn't actually have one.
I studied abroad the next fall. My school had a foreign exchange program with a business school in France, and I hadn't had the opportunity to study abroad as an undergrad. I returned from Paris in December 1992 with knowledge of Minitel and all sorts of dreams about technology & media.
Later that winter, while walking to class one day, I saw a crudely hand-lettered sign stapled to a telephone pole. It said something like "order your groceries on your computer!", and had a phone number to call! Of course I called it. They sent me a special number to program into my computer's modem, and a 3.5-inch floppy disk with their software, Peapod, on it. (I kept that floppy for quite a while, too. Wish I still had it!) With Peapod installed, I could get my computer to dial in to the Peapod server, get a "handshake" sound (that same screech you used to hear right before the AOL guy said "Welcome!"), and get a screenful of text directly from the local Jewel grocery store, where I could place an order for delivery.
I finished business school and went on to work for a local Fortune 500, because that's what you did back then when you came out of business school: Big Company, Consulting, or Wall Street. This Big Company was in the printing business – which is nothing at all like your local copy shop. We're talking enormous factories churning out magazines and catalogs by the 10's of millions. Getting it all into the mail: databases with millions of names & addresses, attached to label printers. And also "EDI"- Electronic Data Interchange. As it turns out, these Big Printing Companies (and there were really only three in North America at the time) were genuine early innovators in the use of data-driven customization, which shouldn't be too surprising when you think about it.
My exit from Big Printing Company was gradual: I worked on a team planning the merger/spinoff of one of our business units with an outside company. When the deal was done I was offered an executive role in "Newco", which I gladly accepted. In my new job, I was responsible for the global rollout of a huge database initiative.
After the rollout I had an exciting opportunity to "pursue a passion" as the first Product Manager at an upstart manufacturer of bicycle components. Like so many people before and since, I had always heard that one should pursue one's passions, and I had been a cyclist since buying my first Peugeot with money saved from mowing lawns. It took a little time before I discovered that what I considered a passion for cycling was more like a casual interest to most of my colleagues, who were bona fide bike-heads. I mean guys – and it was very largely male – who had been competing on two wheels since they were 11.
In retrospect, what I somewhat subconsciously focused on while there was business innovation. (The company itself was more of a Product innovator, and a damned good one at that.)
I used process mapping to reduce our time-to-market by almost 4o%. And I conceived & prototyped a database-driven tool that our OEM clients could use to "spec" their bikes, and it would help funnel them to choosing our products over our competitors'. This was 1996: Siebel Systems, a three year old company, and had just started shifting its focus from Sales Force Automation to Customer Relations Management, which was not yet really a named discipline.
I ultimately returned to the media industry, where I've been ever since. I relocated to New York City to work for an internet company – about a year before Internet 1.0 was proven irrationally exuberant. That company failed spectacularly, but I was able to conceive and implement several data-driven marketing ideas, and conceive and try to implement several others, before the implosion.
Next came a brilliantly innovative ad-tech company, where I was responsible for figuring out how to feed the data furnace with high-grade coal. (To torture the metaphor, I ended up recommending we switch from a coal-fired furnace to natural gas, which seems to have worked out OK for that company, who was just sold to Comcast.)
In the years since, I've consulted for numerous companies – mostly small, with one notable exception – and worked for a seed-funded startup in Predictive Analytics.
Part II: Genesis of an Idea
I moved to New York in 1999, having visited the city only twice before. True, I came here from another large American city, and I have lived in other megapolitan ant farms … but the size and velocity of Gotham was stunning nonetheless. It took some adjustment.
On Christmas Day, 1999, the local PBS station aired Ric Burns' superb New York: A Documentary Film in its entirety, back-to-back. I watched all 17 ½ hours, mouth agape. (Well, not literally.) It left me feeling proud to live here, and it left me feeling that we denizens are not simply inhabitants of tiny, expensive apartments; we're custodians of an American treasure.
Fast forward a couple of years. A friend who sat on the board of a venerable-but-dusty Food & Wine association called and said they needed to reinvigorate their member programing, which had become a little stale. My friend knew that I'd long been an aficionado of all things food, and asked if I had any ideas. After some thinking, I proposed a food tour of the Lower East Side, which I volunteered to research, write, and lead.
The tour was a smashing success. We ended at a brunch place about 1PM; people stayed until six. The seed was planted.
In 2007 Steve Jobs announced a whole new category of mobile phone, a device that could not only make & receive calls, and take some pictures, but could also play music, and videos, and it even knew (and could tell you) where you were. The seed germinated.
In 2009 my life changed pretty dramatically. I'll skip the details, but the gist is that I decided that I would not give myself permission to let this idea die without trying it. And I started doing the background research for what would become Moveable Feast Mobile Media.
Moveable Feast's initial idea was pretty simple: I would dust off my old walking tour of the Lower East Side – and adapt it for the iPhone. This way, my thinking went, I could run my tour without having to be physically present. This meant that people could take it how & when they wanted, without having to worry about scheduling, overbooking, underbooking (who wants to go on a sparsely attended walking tour?), inclement weather, etc. And as a bonus, I could charge people a few bucks.
The idea quickly gave way to a broader plan: why not build a company that published walking tours onto the iPhone platform?
Part III: Building Moveable Feast
I sat down for coffee with my friend and former colleague, Brad, in SoHo. Brad & I had worked together in 2007 at that early stage (and early entry) company in Machine Learning/Behavioral Analytics I mentioned earlier. Brad is a full-stack engineer, and known for his ability to master languages – and by that I do not necessarily mean French, Spanish, and Russian. When we met, I was just testing my idea with him to see what he thought, both from a "market" and a programing perspective. Brad was – and remains – one of the few talented programmers I've worked with who also has really good sense about business and marketing.
He surprised me when he said, "you know what, I have some time. Why don't I join you and we can build it?" (I'm probably paraphrasing; my memory isn't that good!) By late 2010 we had wireframe models for the initial product, and were ready to roll.
The next thing we needed to nail down was the UX/UI. For those who are not familiar with software design, this means "User Experience and User Interface", and they are often spit out as a single term – like I just did. They are very different things though: UX is about the overall ease of use of the product, while UI is more about look & feel. (For a good "disambiguation", read The Difference Between UX and UI Design- A Layman's Guide; it's a very good explanation.)
One of the "mantras" Brad and I agreed on vigorously was that in software design, the UX and UI matter a lot. When considering any feature, the rule was, "if it mucks up the UX or the UI, it stays out until we can figure out how to get it in without mucking up the UX/UI."
Anyway, this was 2010 – five years ago. Five years may not seem like much, but in the world of mobile it's a lifetime. There were a few designers out there at the time who claimed expertise in mobile UX/UI, but I think that was just a land grab; my feeling was that no one could really have gained any true market-leading expertise yet. Consumers were still getting used to these devices. (And I think we still are now.) We spoke with a few of these "experts", but they were very expensive, and again, I didn't think they had enough real expertise to justify their hourly rates.
I picked up the phone and called another former colleague, from a different part of my past. Kent was an Industrial Designer at the upstart bicycle company I mentioned before. Kent's job was to take completed designs from the mechanical engineers and make them into products that were aesthetically pleasing and ergonomically efficient. I reasoned that this was a perfect analogy for what we needed to do, and I knew Kent to be conscientious, enthusiastic, and highly talented. Kent had left the bicycle company, and now headed a boutique product design firm. I pitched Kent on the idea of his team using our product to expand their portfolio and gain a new set of skills in the process. And Kent loved the idea. We got to work building.
In April of 2011 we "pressed the big red button" – we submitted our app to the then-onerous Apple Approval Process – and crossed our fingers. At the time there was still a relative trickle of app submissions, and Apple had enough staff to be extremely picky about the criteria for app acceptance. And we thought we'd hewed closely to the requirements. But a few days later we got our disappointing news: we were turned down. Six months of work! Fortunately, though, Apple did provide the reason we were rejected: we needed to add the Google Maps branding on all of the maps we used in our product's designs. Trivial! Well, sort of. It did take some genuine effort to add that little graphic in a way that didn't muck up the UI. But we did it, and this time, Apple allowed our app into the iTunes App Store℠. We ended up losing just a few days.
We were now a company with a real product, and an app in the App Store℠. April, 2011.
Part IV: Fans!
Talented marketers know to keep an eye out for "unintended use cases" (( this is the true meaning of "the customer is always right", but that's another post)). I'm not really a talented marketer, but I am a trained one. So I knew, too.
Moveable Feast is actually a simple idea: marry storytelling tools to a map interface. The intended use case was for people to create walking tours. (And, of course, for other people to take walking tours.) We thought initially of the thousands – yes, thousands – of professional tour guides in New York City, and presumably their counterparts in essentially every urban destination on Earth. And then the amateurs: people who have guests in town, people who are hopelessly gregarious, people who are passionate historians, or educators, or adventurers.
We built in the basic four media types – text, images, audio, and video – as the "storytelling tools". We gave the walking tour guide an easy way to draw out a route, and then drag-drop any of those media items onto the points along the route. It was easy: Route ➛ Media ➛ Publish.
We did think that travel journalists would eventually be interested in this. Think about it: if you deconstruct a great walking tour, it's really an experience-based article about a place. What we didn't expect was the filmmakers and dramaturges. In hindsight it makes perfect sense to me, but we weren't even thinking about that at the time. Some examples of things we didn't really expect to see:
- The very first example came from a filmmaker & "transmedia(( I'm not a big fan of the term "transmedia", but that's what they call it)) storyteller". She created a feature-length film, shot in a way that took her audience from place to place in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where the action unfolded. She was invited to present this project at Tribeca Interactive, part of the annual Tribeca Film Festival.
- One very forward-thinking playwright designed an episodic series, where each episode took his audience to a different part of New York to follow the characters through the story. The story and characters were fictional, but the geography was real. He sold tickets, and he made arrangements with local businesses that incorporated their products & services into the storyline. For example, audiences went to the restaurant where the characters had a date, and were given a special prix fixe menu as audience members. They went to a bar, where the bartender offered a special cocktail that one of the characters drank. And all of these were included in the ticket price. Brilliant!
- A British teacher of English as a Foreign Language, living in a small town in Portugal, used Moveable as a teaching tool. He had his class of Portuguese adults create an English-language walking tour of their town. His work was nominated for an ELTon Award – the "Oscars" of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IAETFL).
I'm still astounded by the myriad possibilities these projects bring to light, especially as the technologies get better and more accessible.
Part V: Downward Spiral
I very briefly dabbled in fundraising. (In an upcoming post on the "Venture Finance" ecosystem, I intend to go into some details on this.) But the bottom line is that the financing strategy for MFMM was simple: build a product that could generate some repeating revenue – no matter how small, but repeating. Then, and only then, go try to raise some money, first from clients (as more revenue), then from "angels". It may be easy to jump to the conclusion that this strategy was about retaining all of the equity. It wasn't. It was about retaining decision-making.
Nevertheless, the strategy came apart. Brad (my CTO/partner) and I were not paying ourselves salaries, which was OK for me. Tough, but OK. Brad, though, had obligations he had to meet, and the "just until we get some traction" scenario eventually became more than he could reasonably abide. Brad left Moveable Feast in 2012.
I can dabble in code, and I can hack my way through SQL. I have even built a standalone database application that tracked reimbursable expenses for a professional services firm. But I know the difference between that and a Real Programmer. A Real Programmer can make things work, elegantly and efficiently. To become a Real Programmer takes much more than teaching yourself a programming language or two; it takes both experience and a natural gift. I am not a Real Programmer, and never will be.
Without Brad, product development stopped. And this launched a cascade. It was slow at first; I didn't really even notice it. But from the moment product development stopped, the product's obsolescence clock started ticking. Features we had fully designed went unimplemented. Revenue-generating ideas stayed in PowerPoint decks. User feedback went unaddressed. And without money, I could not replace Brad and get these things back on the rails.
Part VI: A White Knight?
By summer of 2014 I had transitioned to the somewhat schizophrenic model that I think is both under-reported by and unsustainable for entrepreneurs: I was consulting to keep paying bills, and trying to keep Moveable Feast alive by looking for the "Unicorn Client". It was in precisely this schizophrenic mindset that I met someone who looked like he could actually help. He had connections to a major company that was specifically looking to make a lot of relatively sizable investments in young companies, and he had connections to some governmental programs that seemed perfectly geared to startups in the earliest stages. Plus, he might even have some consulting work for me!
The rest of that story, but the ending, is best saved for my memoirs, should I ever need to write memoirs. The ending, though, is that after several months, international conference calls, several presentation decks written in a language other than English, ad hoc spreadsheet models, and not a little bit of cautious optimism … nothing happened. But I wasn't deflated yet! I decided to double down.
As we entered 2015 I stopped consulting to launch a crowdfunding campaign. I reasoned that we did need to update our UX/UI, and we did need to add at least one feature that had been left on the drawing board, and we did need to brush up our software a bit. But I'm very resourceful; I don't think I need $5 million to do all that. I can get it done with 1% of that! And then, finally, touch off that wildfire that I know just needs a single spark. Right?
I hired Jesse, a very talented video producer (( please contact me if you'd like to get in touch with him)) to create the all-important campaign video. He did excellent work, especially considering the budget I'd given him to work with:
The crowdfunding campaign did pretty well, considering it's a software project. It's not a celebrity-backed film, and it doesn't have a manufactured product you can pre-order with your contribution. We raised a little over $10,000; our goal was 5 times that. On the platform we chose, the rules are: you don't meet your goal, you get zero. We got zero.
Here's a quick postmortem analysis of the campaign.
Part VII: Postmortem
The picture below is of a "safety coffin". We all learned about these in high school; during the cholera epidemics of the 18th and 19th centuries, people were afraid of being mistaken for dead, and then buried alive. Safety coffins provided a string attached to an above-ground bell that the unfortunate not-departed could ring in case he "woke up" to realize his fate, and wanted to change it. (And may I say: can you imagine? Holy crap!) Incidentally, for you etymology fans, this is the origin of the phrase "saved by the bell".
I'm talking about safety coffins, and I asterisked the title of this post, because Moveable Feast Mobile Media is "maybe dead". But I still believe – with every fiber of my being – that it could be saved by the bell. Here's why:
- "Location-based media" companies have neglected the storytelling component of geography
- "Traditional" media companies are too hide-bound to be truly innovative about location. (Hide-bound, here, is a bit of a cop out, because it doesn't explain the systemic problems within traditional media companies that leads to their inability to innovate. I will cover that, though, as a separate subject.)
- The small handful of competitors that has recently emerged are not treating location-based storytelling as a data play. (( Much more on this, too, in later posts.))
- Experiences are capturing the attention of both researchers and "lifehackers", because "[i]t is the experiences that will last a lifetime, that you will look back on with joy and appreciation" (( This is why, in fact, I named the company "Moveable Feast". It has nothing to do with food. It is because Ernest Hemingway once said "if you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then for the rest of your life you take it with you, for Paris is a Moveable Feast." It was this quotation that his posthumously-published memoirs of actually living in Paris as a young man that lent the book its title.))
- We really are at the beginning of the mobile era, and with new technologies finally entering the mainstream (e.g., Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Beacons, and many others), the possibilities for reinventing Travel Media are endless.
Our business plan has much left unimplemented – and it's all aimed at a sustainable revenue model with growth potential, not simply hacking subscriber growth. I still want to build it! But all that said – over 3,500 words so far, I am at a juncture where I can share some learnings. And this is why this first-person narrative, this paean to me, is a great first post for this blog. I will use the blog to share some learnings, and I'll do my best to couch them in ways that can be helpful in practical (( prac·ti·cal (ˈpraktək(ə)l/), adjective: (1) of or concerned with the actual doing or use of something rather than with theory and ideas. "there are two obvious practical applications of the research")) ways.
Persistence isn't just a trait, it's also a resource.
I'm proud of Moveable Feast Mobile Media. I'm proud of Brad. I'm proud of Kent, and Eric, and Tune, and Jesse. I'm proud of Caitlin, and James, and Paul. We built a visionary product with no money at all, and I think that the product, even today, remains visionary, even if it needs some TLC. I think it is the future of travel media, and much more. As a CEO, I made some mistakes, and I learned from them. I still dream of being able to pick it right back up, and do it even better, with fewer mistakes.
There's a conventional notion that "failed" entrepreneurs gain valuable knowledge from their failure. I'd always nodded faintly to myself at this notion – I mean, of course they do, right? But the assumption I'd made, implicitly, was that the "learning" was in the form of decisions you'd make differently the next time around, or maybe some deeper understanding of some case study from business school all those years ago, or maybe a client situation you'd faced.
Those hashmarks do end up on your sleeve, and I have no doubt they'll prove valuable. But looking back now, in the very moment that comes immediately after (or while?) internalizing "failing" a startup, I realize that the more valuable lessons are the ones you learn about yourself.
To be an entrepreneur, you must either have a strong safety net, or be willing to be poor. You may never need the safety net, and you may never be poor, but to play the game you must start with one or the other. Either that, or you're just a fool.
Last but not least, I am currently looking for opportunities as an acting/interim COO. Interested? Please get in touch.


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The Maryland Terrapins field hockey team defeated the Liberty Flames 4-1 this Sunday, adding another definitive win to its 9-5 record.
The opening of the game proved to be a particularly busy one for the Terps. In the first 10 minutes, the Terps generated many crucial opportunities that proved vital to the game's outcome.
The action kicked off in the first minute, when sophomore defender Madison Maguire took Maryland's first shot on goal. Maguire's drive, taken five meters out from the goal, sailed easily into Liberty's net.
Junior forward Linnea Gonzales attempted two more shots on goal before a penalty stroke was called and sophomore defender Bodil Keus upped the score to 2-0.
Later in the half, Maryland appeared to lose some of its momentum. Taking advantage, Liberty took a shot on goal that was initially ruled a goal but then called off after two video reviews.
Maryland spent the rest of the first half primarily on Liberty's side of the field. However, it didn't consider the energy of Liberty, which was able to work in two shots late in the half.
"Any ball free in the circle, they shot on right away," freshman midfielder Brooke DeBerdine said. "They weren't afraid to shoot. They shot right away."
Despite growing offensive threat, senior midfielder Lein Holsboer initiated two penalty corners for Maryland, with shots from Keus, junior forward Melissa Wilken and freshman midfielder Kyler Greenwalt.
The count for the game was nine shots, two corners for Maryland, three shots and no penalty corners for Liberty.
In the second half, Liberty continued to show Maryland that it could hang with the Terps. The Flames began the second half with their first penalty corner, later followed by their first goal.
A much needed wake-up call for the Terps, Gonzales sprang into action just one minute later, receiving a pass from Holsboer to quickly supply Maryland with its third goal.
Acknowledging team's erratic stamina prior to her goal, Gonzales said, "I'd say in the middle, when the energy dropped from the referrals. But I'd say we came back from that well. We connected and brought it back up again."
However, Liberty continued to put pressure with well-executed passing and quick moves to 50-50 balls that Maryland struggled to intercept. The Flames, refusing to let up, were able to sneak in two penalty corners.
With a score of 3-0 now under their belt, the Terps had one final surge of energy. As the clock ran out, they had one last penalty corner, and a shot from Keus capped the game at 4-1.
Though the Terps had their difficulties, head coach Missy Meharg chose to focus on the positives.
"[I] couldn't be more proud of the women for (…) getting on the board and being dominant," she said. "Its an area that we've worked super hard on and it's coming to the forefront."
Maryland's season continues Friday with a home matchup against Ohio State.


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