Monthly Archives: August 2008

IN ABSENCE OF AMNESIA by Peter Nolan Smith

August 3, 2008 – 10:50 am

New York in the summer of 1981 was everything it wasn’t in the winter of 1979. The temperature boiled the asphalt. Punk had been replaced by New Wave and somehow the city had escaped bankruptcy. Money flowed on the streets and even the East Village exhibited signs of regeneration, since abandoned tenements can only be […]

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Koh Samui Madness

August 2, 2008 – 5:02 pm

My annual visits to Koh Samui throughout the 1990s consisted of a train ride down to Surathani. There was no plane. A ferry ride over to the island. Booking a beach bungalow at Coral Cove and renting a Honda MTX 125cc motorbike to get round the island. Chaweng Beach was the prettiest stretch of sand […]

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Koh Samui Paradise Drug Bust

August 2, 2008 – 3:27 pm

Ecstasy has been a party drug for years. Most users consider it a pleasurable addition to a rave and in comparison to tobacco which kills over 10 million people per year the psycho-active drug is relatively harmless other than frying abuser’s brains and dangerously depleting a dance-mad ravver’s body fluid balance. Personally I’ve experimented with […]

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Why Shannon Greer Cannae Play Basketball

August 2, 2008 – 2:53 pm

I know Shannon Greer since he was 16. A West Village teenager with a good jump shot. He was a clean version of Jim Carroll, the junkie author of BASKETBALL DIARIES. I let him into the Milk Bar. Scottie Taylor, my boss, asked if he was under age. “Not as far as I know.”

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Fenway Smith opens his eyes

August 2, 2008 – 2:23 pm

The newest Red Sox fan in Thailand

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