Monthly Archives: December 2017

Untying The Knot Of Thai Wires

December 11, 2017 – 6:02 pm

Last year Microsoft’s Bill Gates visited Thailand and upon seeing the tangles of wires hanging over the streets complained about the masses stealing electricity from the power companies. The Harvard drop-out is considered to be one of the richest men in the world and in his youth spent hours developing new phones and computers, so […]

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BACK AND FORTH by Peter Nolan Smith – CHAPTER 3 – LOOKALIKE

December 11, 2017 – 2:39 pm

The Torino crossed the flooded Mississippi and passed heavily loaded semi-trailers laboring up a steep bluff. Davenport, Iowa wasn’t a big city, but river town had been even smaller, when a trucker had dropped Jack Kerouac in 1947. The sun had set without the beat writer catching a ride and Keroacc had backtracked to Davenport […]

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A Busy Man # 45

December 9, 2017 – 1:29 pm

Donald Trump had a busy week. He insulted North Korea’s leader by calling him ‘Little Rocket Man’. # 45 also attacked the NFL players for not honoring the flag. The White House ignored the reconstruction of hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico, but Tump had the nerve to tweet, “FEMA & First Responders are doing a GREAT job […]

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BACK AND FORTH BY PETER NOLAN SMITH – CHAPTER 2 – FLATLANDS

December 9, 2017 – 11:04 am

I-90 weaved over the Berkshires and descended into the heavily forested Hudson Valley. Pam, AK, and Sean had been on the road two hours and they had no immediate plans to stop other than for gas or food. “You know Jack Kerouac started his trip south of here at the Bear Mountain Bridge. He had […]

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Big Jim Of Kerry

December 3, 2017 – 10:14 pm

Twenty years ago Big Jim Moore married a girl from Kerry. He spawned two daughters on the Emerald Isle. The other day he comes into the 169 wearing a skateboard cap. Big Jim commented on my cap. Classic Hibernian headwear. “Try it on.” The emcee of Sensei’s Skate Night did so. Irish to the marrow […]

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