Monthly Archives: January 2013

The Truth About Whores

January 6, 2013 – 6:44 pm

“Beware of whores that don’t want money. The Hell they don’t. What they mean is that they want more money.” William Burroughs. Several years ago I had occasion to visit the Elk Gallery on Crosby Street. Jocko Weyland was curating a photography exhibition of lurid bloody vistas of wild Italian youth. Punk, guns, and drugs […]

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THE REUNION OF BAD BOYS by Peter Nolan Smith

January 6, 2013 – 10:38 am

Two years ago I passed a long Thursday at the diamond exchange. Manny was worried about money and Richie Boy showed up late and shikkah or drunk. His father checked his watch. It was a little before noon. They argued the rest of the day about business and family. I stayed out of it and […]

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Warmer Than Yesterday

January 5, 2013 – 2:26 pm

Weather at the base of the Fort Greene Monument seemed warmer than yesterday even though the temperature was the same as on Friday. I biked up to the plaza honoring the dead prisoners of the Revolutionary War and basked in the wan rays of the January sun. A park ranger warned me not to bike […]

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Wintertime In Pattaya

January 5, 2013 – 11:59 am

I’ve spent the best part of the 21st Century in Thailand, especially from 2000-2008. For the most part the weather was hot, hotter, or hot and rainy during the monsoon season. There was also a brief winter and in 2007 an intense high pressure system stalled over Thailand inflicting seasonally cooler weather on the entire […]

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