Category Archives: 80s

The Ugliest Man In Paris

October 21, 2020 – 4:18 pm

Alain Pacadis led the gay revolution in Paris with friends Marie France and Paquita Paquin. He wrote for various newspapers and magazines in the French capitol. I met him at the Bains-Douches, where I was working as the physionomiste. Friends joked that the unwashed journalist was the ugliest man on Earth, although Serge Gainsbourg argued […]

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BAG OF NAILS by Peter Nolan Smith

June 25, 2020 – 12:12 am

Nicky Barnes was a drug dealing legend from the 70s. He ran his heroin empire from Harlem under the protection of the Lucchese crime syndicate. ‘Crazy Joe’ Gallo was his godfather and helped Barnes create ‘the Council’ to run the trade north of 125th Street. Barnes earned the name ‘Mr. Untouchable’ for his skill at […]

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The Second Coming Of Rockets Redglare

May 27, 2020 – 9:43 am

Rockets Redglare was a native New Yorker. His family was tough. He was born addicted to heroin. His childhood was no fairy tale and Rockets moved to the East Village to escape his past. He couldn’t outrun heroin and his habit became the thing of legends on the Punk Scene. Rockets could score anywhere and […]

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AN ISLAND BEAUTY by Peter Nolan Smith on KINDLE

May 25, 2020 – 10:59 am

A movie actor friend once explained the pecking order on an actress’ wish list. “In the first hour of a party she works the producers, the next thirty minutes are dedicated to the directors, and finally she’ll flirt with leading men, but under no circumstances will be ever go home with a writer. They are […]

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MAIS OU SONT PASSES LES GAZELLES Lizzy Mercier Descloux

May 15, 2020 – 8:59 pm

Lizzie Mercier Descloux pioneered world music with her 1984 “Mais où Sont Passées les Gazelles ?” (‘But where have the gazelles gone?’) base on her travels in Soweto. The punkette was a good friend and we miss her always. To hear MAIS OU SONT PASSES LES GAZELLES please go to the following URL

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