Monthly Archives: July 2024

Watchic Pond Maine 1964

July 16, 2024 – 12:49 pm

Watchic Pond 1964 My grandfather and his friends had dammed a stream to create a lake. A foto of my brothers and sisters reenacting the Titanic sinking. My grandfather Frank A. Smith graduated from Bowdoin in 1912. A college friend drowned in the Titanic sinking. He was older than his classmates having worked the North […]

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January 15 1987 – Journal

July 15, 2024 – 1:05 pm

PLATOON has been a bigger hit than Willem Dafoe thought its completion and the film has garnered nominations for Director Oliver Stone and Willem as best supporting actor for his portrayal as the saintly Sergeant Elias. I’ve never been to war. I’ve fought on the streets many times. A man once shot at me in […]

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THE TEMPTATION FOR MAN by Peter Nolan Smith

July 15, 2024 – 8:21 am

Several years ago my good friend Jamie Parker was seeing a go-go girl from the Paris A Go-Go. Ort was skinny and crazy. The ex-con from the Bronx was smart enough not to have Ort as a girlfriend. The twenty-three was better as a geek, but the 52 year-old from the Bronx couldn’t resist the […]

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July 14, 1978 East 60th Street – Journal

July 14, 2024 – 9:49 am

I spent the evening with Kurt Rose friend.After coming back from Paris she has kept her distance, although we spent the last week together. Kirk said she just plays with people’s emotions because she has none. “She just wants you for sex.” He might have a point. “I want the same. Sex.” “I want to […]

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DeKalb Tower Of Doom

July 14, 2024 – 8:52 am

Ten years ago the western view from the Fort Greene Observatory was a low city skyline dominated by the Clock Tower at Atlantic Terminal. During Covid the real estate market was dead, however city and bourough councils granted building permits for a multitude of mega-luxury condo buildings to insure construction jobs and launder money for […]

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