Monthly Archives: August 2024

Les Bains Douches – Paris August 17, 1994 – Journal

August 13, 2024 – 3:53 pm

Les Bains Douches Paris August The clock Over the stairs always three to midnight The music in the entrance Summertime – Miles Davis trumpet ballad___ Upstairs in the dining room St. Tropez blondes huddle at a table Blonde bronzed seeking a rich man___ I not one I sit at the bar An old junkie friend […]

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NORTH OF HERE BY
PETER NOLAN SMITH

August 13, 2024 – 8:10 am

NORTH OF HERE BY PETER NOLAN SMITH The only problem with Maine is that you can’t eat the scenery – James Steele 1978 MANGOZEEN BOOKS 2024 VERMONT WINTAH 1973 A blizzard buried Montreal The temp arctic. Minus zero. Crashing with two New Zealanders Across the street From the Winston Churchill Pub Only forty feet through […]

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July 17, 1994 – Penang – Journal

August 12, 2024 – 5:37 pm

Kept on playing basketball this afternoon with the Filipino sailors. We beat some Americans but I got brutally sunburned. It’s hotter there than in New York in the summer, but despite being trapped in Penang, I’m actually happy to be here. I don’t really know how I’m going to get out of here. Maybe I’ll […]

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Penang Gone

August 11, 2024 – 12:21 pm

Sumatra was a lost world in 1990. Tigers prowled the western jungles of Indonesia’s largest island, active volcanoes glowed in the night, and I drank Bintang beer with the ancestors of headhunters on the shore of Lake Toba 1500 meters above the sea and the night air was chilly after months along the equator . […]

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July 17, 1994 – Penang – Journal

August 10, 2024 – 10:06 am

div class=”separator” style=”clear: both;”> Rod called and said that he had wired the money to Thomas Cook in Bangkok. But that he had to rewire it to the Hong Kong bank in Penang. I went there. Nothing. I have serious doubts you ever sent it, but I’m not mad. By having money is my responsibility. […]

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