Monthly Archives: May 2014

For Peter, on Dark Illusions and Giddy Phantoms by Irene Zimmerman

May 24, 2014 – 11:17 am

Dear Peter, sometimes, when I am sitting on the subway or walking past an ugly park or eating eggs while I wait to move my laundry to the dryer I wonder why it is that I only seem to write when there is conflict spheres of energy at war with each other inside me but […]

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Thai Curfew

May 22, 2014 – 12:41 pm

Since November 2013 armed skirmishes between Thailand’s two opposing political camps have resulted in at least twenty-eight deaths and hundreds of wounded Thais. Once Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was forced from office by a court order the army chief, Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, had the army stepped into the power vacuum to prevent anarchy. Radios and […]

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BET ON CRAZY – THE FOUR CS By Peter Nolan Smith [Kindle Edition]

May 22, 2014 – 11:26 am

In 1990 a friend in the New York’s Diamond District asked me to help him at his exchange. I knew nothing about diamonds other than Superman could squeeze coal to create them. Coal was a diamond after intense pressure changed its density. At first that was all I knew, but I slowly learned about the […]

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BET ON CRAZY by Peter Nolan Smith / The 4Cs – Color

May 21, 2014 – 10:58 am

The last week of January I was hurrying down the sidewalk on West 47th Street. I had been on the job since my friend Richie Boy had busted both his knees skiing at Jackson Hole. My watch read 9:35. I was late for the third time this week and it was only Wednesday. Lenny the […]

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MARTIAL LAW IN THAILAND

May 20, 2014 – 1:49 pm

Thailand’s turmoil has resulted in the declaration of martial law after opposing factions have battled in the streets and the Prime Minister was ousted by the courts. The media has reported that Bangkok seems calm and according to the BBC Army chief Gen. Prayuth Chan-Ocha said martial law would remain until “the country is safe […]

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