Monthly Archives: December 2018

Next Year Andromeda

December 15, 2018 – 12:12 am

Andromeda is the spiral galaxy 225 million light years away from our star system. Four billion years from now the two galaxies are predicted to crash together. None of that will be there to witness that event. When I was a kid in the 1950s, Marvel Comics came out with a story NEXT YEAR ANDROMEDA. […]

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Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

December 15, 2018 – 12:09 am

Sic transit gloria mundi translates from the dead language of Latin phrase into “Thus passes the glory of the world” in English, even though no one in America speaks that language. There is very little glory left in this world, which is why we look to the stars. Next year Andromeda.

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Thappraya Road Obstacle Course

December 13, 2018 – 3:49 am

“Cars destroy. Roads kill.” Back in 1988 I got drunk with Dmitri and the rest of the East 6th Street bikers. The tyranny of DWI and DUI was in its infancy and I returned home on Park Avenue on my 1966 Triumph Trophy, which was a writing job bonus from Monty Montgomery, a Coca-Cola heir. It was […]

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Not CIA

December 7, 2018 – 10:30 pm

Phillip Brook came from Tasmania. We met in Paris during the 1980s. He was a journalist and hardcore junkie also a little queer, not that I minded, because queers were much more fun than straights in Boston, New York, or the City of Lights. We worked together for several magazines and journals. He was a […]

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41 BLANCO STREET AUSTIN by Peter Nolan Smith

December 5, 2018 – 7:37 am

In late January of 1975 I drove a blind piano-tuner in a Delta 88 from Miami Beach to the East Texas. Everyone at the Sea Breeze Hotel on Collins Avenue had warned me about Old Bill’s driving. I thought that the old coots had been kidding, but outside of La Grange the blind man ordered […]

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