Tuesday at Rehearsal
Private location, Hyattsville, MD

Familiar Faces
There is now a plaque for "Studio 54" above the outside door and a red 54 (painted with stencils) in front of the door at the top of the stairs. Donnell was there, but was negotiating with a promoter, so I let him be and went to the rehearsal area and talked with his son Donte. Nephew arrived after a while and eventually Dwayne, Doc, BJ, DP, Godfather, Adia, Duane Face, Mike, and Jacques arrived.

They discussed a lot, particularly about the incidents of violence on Saturday at Club U that cost them their liquor license on Monday. Donnell discussed how in DC Councilmen Jim Graham's press conference, Graham aimed to close all the GoGo venues in his ward. Most of the rehearsal was spent discussing this as well as performance strategies and what their audience aim was.

Nephew, Duane and I had a discussion. Nephew told me that Polo is his brother-in-law and their soundman, Al Winkler, was FF's soundman before they hired Googie.

At the end, Donnell, Nephew, and I had a basketball discussion where Nephew said that the Wizards don't play enough defense. He also said that the Wizards gave up more points than they scored, and they asked me to look it up. It is not true: after 51 games, they have averaged 101.7, their opponents 101.1.