laser disc

I thought about egg rolls until Counterbalance Brewing on South Michigan Street, which has a tasty Midnight Snack black lager and a framed copy of “The Fifth Element” on laser disc hanging on the wall next to photos printed on birch wood.

In another story, a laser disc player moldering on the shelf suddenly wakes up from a decades-long siesta to find that its not-young-anymore owner, John, no longer appreciates its cutting-edge ability to play “not one, but three different films: ‘Backdraft,’ ‘Arachnophobia’ and ‘Right Now: The Music Video,’ by Van Halen.”

“They’re watching you ironically,” the sneering DVD player tells the laser disc player.

This wrenching drama about a Black teenager growing up amid gangs in a racist Los Angeles was actually put out on laser disc by Criterion in the 1990s.

Few are clamoring for the Blackberries that were such a status symbol in the early 2000s and old laser disc players may remain forever unwanted, except by the most eccentric collectors.