Monthly Archives: February 2022

IMPURE AT HEART by Peter Nolan Smith

February 10, 2022 – 7:01 pm

In the early 60s the nuns of Our Lady of the Foothills taught their students that our sins were punished in the burning fires of Hell, until then Mother Superior subjected the palms of potential heretics and religious backsliders to a cane. Whisperers and jesters suffered the yardstick. All of her victims were boys, for […]

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THE PRICE OF PURITY by Peter Nolan Smith

February 10, 2022 – 1:03 am

Ten years ago during the monsoon season a biblical deluge swept the sois of Pattaya. refuge from an early evening deluge in a very ordinary beer bar off Pattaya’s Soi Excite. I parked my motor scooter under an awning a very ordinary beer bar off Soi Excite and scooted for shelter. The rain cascaded off […]

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Darryl Hannah Postcard – Never Send – March 1984

February 9, 2022 – 4:54 pm

In January 1984 I accompanied a fashion photographer to Jamaica to shot a new blonde Star, Darryl Hannah. She was good people. After the trip I returned to Europa and traveled across the Alpes with a Italian cartoonist. We spent a night in Milano. I sent a letter and not this postcard from Roma. Maybe […]

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New Ancient Cave Paintings

February 9, 2022 – 1:20 pm

45,000 years ago ice sheets covered the polar regions and mountain tops of the world. Human population during this glacial period has been calculated to have been in the tens or thousands, if not even less. According to pre-historians, as the Ice Cap retreated, Homo Sapiens gained the upper hand on the Neanderthals and dominated […]

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NOT A CHANCE by Peter Nolan Smith

February 7, 2022 – 1:12 pm

On December 24, 1984 I flew home from Paris to celebrate Christmas with my family in Boston. After the holiday I trained south to New York and my apartment in East Village. The falling snow prettified the concrete city. I arrived at 256 East 10th Street at sunset. My Yamaha 650 was buried under a […]

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