Monthly Archives: April 2013

Tonight’s Light Show

April 13, 2013 – 6:17 pm

In the Spring of 1963 my father called us out of our split-level ranch house in the Blue Hills south of Boston. He excitedly pointed to the sky. My brothers, sisters, mother, and I scanned the night for UFOs and I was the first to spot the reason for us standing on the lawn in […]

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The Perfect Martini by Luis Bunuel

April 12, 2013 – 7:53 am

To provoke, or sustain, a reverie in a bar, you have to drink English gin, especially in the form of the dry martini. To be frank, given the primordial role in my life played by the dry martini, I think I really ought to give it at least a page. Like all cocktails, the martini, […]

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The Weekly Trifecta # 1

April 11, 2013 – 9:06 pm
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Warm Weather

April 11, 2013 – 8:37 pm

Warm weather bluffed the coming of Spring Cold winter rejected the season’s brief fling. Azaleas shivered under black lightning. Yellow jonquils fought off their floral fading. Today the gray clouds carried a day of foreboding. Tomorrow I pray for one thing, the sunshine. Same as everyone. I want warm. A POEM BY PETER NOLAN SMITH

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Golden Smile

April 11, 2013 – 8:05 pm

Fabo got fucked up in his motorsai accident. He’s lucky to be alive. A dentist replaced his lost smile. His teeth are all gold. In the afternoon he faces the west and his smile lights the soi of the Welcom Inn, where the the girls call him ‘yim thong’ or Gold Smile. They know their […]

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