Author Archives: Peter

Open City declared Peter Nolan Smith an underground punk legend of the 1970s East Village. The New England native spent many years as a nightclub doorman in New York, Paris, London, and Hamburg. The constant traveler has lived for long periods of time in Europe and the Far East. After a forced retirement from the Schmatta trade in Thailand, Peter Nolan Smith returned to New York to work in the international diamond trade. At summer’s end he resumed the life of a writer. The world’s leading leisureologist is currently based in Sri Racha, Thailand, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and Luxembourg City. He has no address.

Biloxi Wintah January 1975

March 25, 2025 – 9:37 am

A gray Monday morning in Clinton reminiscing on a drive across the USA. Biloxi Wintah January 1975 An hour after sunset we passed through Ocala. Old Bill was the co-pilot. I was at the wheel. The cowboy town looked mean and I drove the speed limit. Florida was a big state at 55. We joined […]

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Senator Charles Schumer – Traitor

March 25, 2025 – 9:34 am

Last week Senator Charles Schumer from New York joined several Democrats in voting for the Trump regime’s spending plan to dismantle LBJ’s Great Society programs as well as allow the President non-Elect Musk to ax thousands of jobs without any oversight, except for his cadre of Ketamine flunkies following their leader’s theory that if we […]

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Times Square 1978 Clover Nolan

March 25, 2025 – 8:55 am

Times Square 1978 No tourists Clover is the only slightly vertical image in this foto. Of course eyes are drawn to a seventeen yo Texas runaway. I’m a no one in an English suit. Times Square at the height of the Sexual revolution. I like the stride of the man behind her right shoulder. He […]

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October 18, 1978 – Journal Entry – East Village

March 25, 2025 – 4:06 am

Alice’s trip to West Virginia was five days long. She returned Tuesday morning fifteen minutes before I went to work as a waiter in the Ventron Executive Dining Room off Wall Street. Somehow she looked different and acted the same. It took a full day until Alice became the love of my life again, although […]

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TIPS FOR THE OCCUPIED

March 24, 2025 – 5:01 pm

In July 1940 according to Ronald Rosbottom’s WHEN PARIS WENT DARK about the Nazi Occupation of Paris in June 1940 a mimeographed flyer hit the streets. TIPS FOR THE OCCUPIED. The City of Light had been stunned by the collapse of the French army. 80% of the population fled Paris fearing the worst much like […]

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