Chapter Fourteen: Supa Phat Hong Kong Phooey [New Orleans, Louisiana—August 26, 2000]

268. The woman--whose chances: http://hyperreal.org/raves/spirit/caring/Overdose_grrrl.html

268.     compact discs alone earned $16.4 billion: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/08/01/opinion/01blow.ready.html

269.     Psychedelic Pimp Daddy Land: Brittany Gaston, “Celebrating Disco Donnie Presents: Psychedelic Pimp Daddy Land” (Disco Donnie Presents blog, April 1, 2014)

269.     By 2000, he was selling tickets in twenty states: Christina Diettenger, “Disco Donnie and the Days of Rave” (Gambit [New Orleans], February 3, 2004)

272.     would station two ambulances outside the theater: Jenny Eliscu, “The War on Raves” (Rolling Stone, May 24, 2001)

273.     Moby, who played Crobar on March 23: Brett Sokol, “Electronica’s Kingdom Comes” (Miami New Times, March 23, 2000)

273.     “every music supervisor in Hollywood”: Ethan Smith, “Organization Moby” (Wired, May 2002)

273-274.     “The Sky Is Broken” went to Galaxy: Dave Simpson, “Plug and play” (The Guardian, May 5, 2000)

274.     Times Square was doing major business with the Walt Disney Company: Paul Goldberger, “The New Times Square: Magic That Surprised the Magicians” (New York Times, October 15, 1996)

282.     a record 381,000 Ecstasy tablets: n-a, “More Ecstasy Drug Busts” (Sacramento Bee, June 7, 1999); via Abbo1234, [no subject] (SF-Raves post, June 7, 1999)

282.     that number vaulted to 3.5 million pills: Melissa Mertl, “Ecstasy and the Brain: Club Drug Rants and Raves” (n-a, April 4, 2000); via daniel sharp, “[mw] interesting X Article” (MW-Raves post, April 14, 2000)

282.     Between 2000 and 2001: The D.A.W.N. Report, October 2002

282.     “The more prevalent under-thirty crowd”: Mertl

282.     A June 1999 arena event in Morristown, New Jersey: Matthew Brown, “Morris ponders rave ban: 80 face drug charges; 15 taken to hospital” (Daily Record, June 1999)

282.     In September 1999, a Miami party: Geoff Boucher, “Dancing Until Dawn” (Los Angeles Times, September 30, 1999)

282-283.     In May 2000, the city council added an ordinance: Achy Obejas and Audarshia Townsend, “Raves rock on, laws or not” (Chicago Tribune, May 22, 2000)

283.     “Ecstasy look-alike substance”: Jeff Coen, “Third death tied to lookalike drug” (Chicago Tribune, June 1, 2000)

283.     body temperature of 108 degrees: Michael Y. Park, “New, More Dangerous Drug Threatens Teens” (Fox News, June 5, 2000)

283.     “There’s no such thing as a drug-free rave”: Joe Burchell, “Fairgrounds ‘rave’ is likely dead” (Arizona Daily Star, August 15, 2000)

283.     “meet the legal definition”: John Cornyn, guest editorial (North Channel Sun [Houston], May 6, 1999); via Fergus, “[mw] [az-raves] Fwd: One of the more uninformed people on the planet. this will PISS YOU OFF!!!” (MW-Raves post, May 15, 1999)

283.     “promotes an outcome that is destined”: Mike Rappaport, “Rave tragedy is not an excuse to clamp down on all-night party” (Daily Bulletin, September 2, 1999)

283.     “The promoters don’t push the drugs”: Obejas and Townsend

283.     “What you usually end up with”: Jodi Upton, “Raves thrive as teen drug havens” (Detroit News, February 28, 2000)

284.     “knowingly open, lease, rent, use, or maintain”: U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, Title 21 United States Code (USC) Controlled Substances Act

285.     “Performance of music to an audience”: Eliscu 

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