Monthly Archives: October 2019

Rev 6000 RPM To The Finish

The Vortex Sculptor/Biker posted this long-forgotten moment. Peter N Smith, battling a massive hangover, on his way to a podium finish. Turn 6, Laguna Seca, Open Production Class 1978, on the Racecrafters Kawasaki borrowed from Dave Aldana. An awesome performance. He arrived late to the track, stole a set of leathers from somebody named Ron, […]

The Wall For The Entire Sackler Family

One West Virginia pharmacy in a town with a population of 392 sold nine million oxycondin pills in two years and over the same period according to https://crooksandliars.com Big Pharma flooded the hillbilly state with over 780 million pills of varying strengths. The drug companies killed almost two thousand people, as the hospitals, social service, […]

Damaged Done With The Needle In My Arm

After the Viet-Nam War wounded veterans deadened their pain by shooting heroin. It was cheap and available. A knife, a fork, a needle, and a cork was the way Rastas spelled New York, the smack capitol of the USA and the other night my friends were telling me about this opium they smoked in New […]

Fat is Beautiful for Feminists

Several summers ago Jamie Parker drove up on his motorcycle from Pattaya to Sriracha. Mutual friends back in the States had been casting aspersions against the paternity of my son. Mam had heard the same from her family. She offered to submit Fenway to a DNA test. I wasn’t having any part of it. I […]

92 in New York’s Indian Summer 2019

My last few days were spent in Hudson New York, renovating an artist studio. At first the weather ran seasonably cool and I cursed myself for not bringing a hoodie or anything else warm, however by Tuesday the temperatures crawled up into the 70s and today I walked out of the Warren Street building into […]