Monthly Archives: January 2014

THE ID LOUNGE by Peter Nolan Smith From BACK AND FORTH

January 5, 2014 – 5:04 pm

The next morning AK, Pam, and I slept late. We ate breakfast in the dining room with the lodge’s owner. His wife was great cook. We heeded her advice on breakfast and ordered flapjacks and sausage. The generous serving was a hearty start to the day, especially since the owner and I had drunk away […]

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THE MEANING OF PURE by Peter Nolan Smith

January 4, 2014 – 4:21 pm

This is a video montage of my story THE MEANING OF PURE. I had gone to Benares to swim in the Ganges. A bath in the Mother of India washes away your sins. I was doing so for my baby brother who had passed from AIDS earlier in the summer of 1995. Eric Marciano made […]

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Work by Maynard G Krebs

January 2, 2014 – 10:44 am

From 1959 to 1963 THE LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS was one of America’s favorite TV shows featuring Dwayne Hickman in the lead role along with Bob Denver as his friend. Maynard G Krebs believed life was for living and he mere mention of the word ‘work’ made him quiver. He was the most famous beatnik […]

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The Sum Of 2014

January 2, 2014 – 10:29 am

The ever-lovely Ann Magnuson wished everyone a happy New Year on Facebook. “2014 is going to be a good year! It has to be, it has a 4 in it!” I hoped that she was right, since 2013 was an annus miserablis for me, however I wrote the hillbilly performance artiste that 4 is not […]

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AULD LANG SYNE Die Toten Hosen

January 1, 2014 – 12:33 am
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