Category Archives: 2000s

2010 Top 10 Tracks

My friend Jorge S posted these tracks. I’ve heard of none of them. My years as a nightlife icon are over. My ears no longer ring in the morning. I am totally untrendy. Therefore I am cool? Most young people would think ‘not’. Here’s the list 10. James Blake – CMYK [R&S] 09. Nicolas Jaar […]

Sir Grope-A-Lot

I don’t go out to nightclubs anymore. A man my age is out of place in a disco. 58 years old with all those young people. Just isn’t right as Chris Rock said, “Every man has to settle down eventually. You know why you gotta settle down eventually? Because you don’t want to be the […]

DREAMS OF TAYLOR by Peter Nolan Smith

Dreams of Taylor The term ‘generation gap’ was coined during the tumultuous years following World War 2 as the focus of the American media swung from the conquerors of the Axis Powers to their spawn, the Baby Boomers. Big Crosby gave way to Elvis and the King was deposed by the Beatles. Each succeeding wave […]

Be Kind to the Platypus

The Ramada Hotel bar at JFK collects interesting people. We had missed our flight to Chicago after the JetBlue steward decided my Scottish friend was hovering on the line of intoxication. Two table of Irish punks were catching a morning flight to Dallas for a show. A British FO flunky was trying to seduce my […]

9/11 plus 5 Pattaya Memorial

My wife has been out of town for over a week. She had gone up country to the rice paddies with my daughter to take care of a sick sister. Champoo, my dog, escorted on my nights at the Buffalo Bar. The bar on 3rd Road is a convenient five-minute motorcycle ride to my soi […]