Monthly Archives: January 2020

MIAMI BEACH BLIND by Peter Nolan Smith

January 7, 2020 – 3:16 am

Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands In the winter of 1975 I hitchhiked west from Miami Beach along Alligator Alley. Rides weren?t easy, but finally a fruit farmer from Naples gave me a lift through the southern tip of the Everglades. Nothing, but swamp lined the four-lane highway. No snowbirds from the Northeast or Canada wanted to […]

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Loitokitok – 2019 Kili Initiative – # 20

January 6, 2020 – 6:48 pm

Back at the Kibo Slopes Lodge the Kili Initiative team relaxed after lunch. I hadn’t eaten anything. My stomach was trembling at the sight of good and decided to wander into town for some souvenirs and maybe even a Guinness. The Irish Stout was good for you. This was our last day in Loitokitok. Tomorrow […]

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SKIN COLD AS ICE by Peter Nolan Smith

January 6, 2020 – 10:04 am

When Lou Reed had died seven years ago, a friend had called to ask, if I had known the singer. I had said, “No.” El-Roy was a pussy hound and asked if I thought Nico was a good fuck. “I don’t know,” I rhad eplied and hung up thinking one thing. The Velvet Underground’s singer […]

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El Phoenix Bar – Boston

January 6, 2020 – 2:15 am

My friend Jorge posted this photo and I thought ‘pink elephant’. Only one place had one and it was in Brighton, Mass. In college I drank in Concannon and Sennetts’, a Commonwealth Avenue establishment with a mural of a naked woman riding a pink elephant over the bar. The dive offered draft ‘ganseets at 25 […]

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THE SLEEP OF THE DEAD by Peter Nolan Smith

January 6, 2020 – 1:20 am

Two weeks after my arrest by the Thai Cyper-Crime Unit in 2008 I was drinking at Donovan’s Sports Bar on Pattya’s Sai 3. Most of the clientele was watching a golf match, while I concentrated on drinking a vodka-tonic. Golf meant nothing to me. After Tiger Woods birdied a hole, the TV went to commercial […]

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