Category Archives: 2000s

Mona Lisa into La Belle

December 5, 2011 – 6:40 am

Teenage boys in the early 70s were not supposed to like Joni Mitchell, but once I loved to France in 1982, I loved the line from FREE MAN IN PARIS. “I was a free man in Paris.” My freedom remained unfettered throughout the next two decades and while living in Thailand, I changed the lyrics […]

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BAD INFLUENCE by Peter Nolan Smith

November 22, 2011 – 6:50 am

Last winter Enos Washing called me at the diamond exchange. “I heard from your cousin that you had come back from Thailand.” Enos had visited Ty Spaulding in Pattaya and the then-broker had thought the Last Babylon ‘dirty. He wasn’t wrong. “I’m back almost four years.” I hoped Ty had said nothing about the circumstances […]

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Big Foot Extinction

August 8, 2011 – 6:27 am

My father passed his last days in a nursing home. Twice a month I traveled north on the Fung Wah bus. His assisted care facility was a twenty minute ride from the South Station. Few of the commuters walked in the direction of nursing home. Most of them got into cars. They stared at me. […]

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The 6th Commandment in Pattaya

August 5, 2011 – 11:40 pm

The religious right in America have sought to increase the influence of God on the government by trying to place the 10 Commandments in various courthouses and legislature. While I am not a follower of the bearded Jehovah in the flowing muumuu, I have nothing against erection of the twin tablets of NO this and […]

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SEVENTEEN – Ladytron

May 24, 2011 – 8:24 pm
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