Monthly Archives: May 2021

GARRISON JUNCTION by Peter Nolan Smith

May 7, 2021 – 1:40 pm

In the late summer of 1972 my college friend and I hitchhiked across across Montana. The interstate was under construction. Ptrov and I got stranded in Garrison Junction for a good reason. Twenty miles farther south was the Montana State Prison. A sign warned motorists about escaped convicts. No one was taking a chance on […]

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INSECTS YUM YUM by Peter Nolan Smith

May 7, 2021 – 10:48 am

Most tourists to Thailand are fascinated by the food cart selling with fried insects i.e. crickets, grubs, cockroaches, scorpions, and several unidentified members of the insect species. Photos cost 10 baht. Thais revel in daring farangs to cross that culinary line in hopes of witnessing the European upchuck the crawly creature,s as if they were […]

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DEER LODGE MONTANA

May 6, 2021 – 7:33 am

In the spring of 1994 Ms. Carolina learning to love Montana. She pinned the accelerator of the premiere-class rented Chevy to the floor. We got places fast and left faster. After leaving Garrison Junction she drove down I-90. A roadside billboard announced the State Prison was open for visits. “What you think?” She was already […]

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$500 Million Painting

May 6, 2021 – 2:42 am

Back in 2013 an art dealer friend of mine received an email from a 20-year-old Singapore artist asking $500 million US for his painting THE BRAIN. Here is the email: Half a Billion Dollars for a Painting is a World-Record. “If any artist has had any precedence in history, his art would no longer be […]

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