Monthly Archives: September 2021

Joyous Lake 1975

September 3, 2021 – 1:54 am

The Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace; Music on Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York has impacted American music culture for over fifty years. Richie Havens opened the festival and Jimi Hendrix closed the concert with a fiery psychedelic finesse. A half million […]

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KILL THE RICH CHAPTER 2 By Peter Nolan Smith

September 2, 2021 – 5:41 pm

Two NYPD homicide detectives stood in front of the Vent du Sol. Uniformed officers kept the curious behind the yellow tape. Dead men attract spectators. The rubberneckers weren’t looking for the victim to come back to life, but waited to see if anything else out of the ordinary happened on this quiet Upper East Side […]

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KILL THE RICH CHAPTER 1 by Peter Nolan Smith

September 1, 2021 – 5:36 pm

The Vent de Sol was booked solid. The clientele hailed from the upper echelons of New York’s .0001%. Table # 4 sitting eight people was dominated by a 54 year-old man in an impeccably British tailored suit. No one in the Upper East Side bistro had earned more than the wily investment banker. No one […]

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Last Plane From Kabul 8/31/2021

September 1, 2021 – 4:35 pm

Yesterday the last US military transport jet lifted from Kabul airport packed to the brim with last-minute American departees. Hundreds of thousands of Afghanis hoped to join the exodus from the Taliban ruling Afghanistan. The new government had ordered its fighters to not shell the refugees, although an ISIS-K suicide bombing killed 90 civilians and […]

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AUGUST 17, 1978 – JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

September 1, 2021 – 11:53 am

The coke deal falls apart. What else is new? Mark was too greedy and put another $300 atop the $2200. His friend Arthur, rightfully balked at paying so much, even though I hadn’t stepped on the blow. The entire venture reminded me of why I never got into dealing. Friends are fools and their thinking […]

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