Category Archives: 80s

FAMOUS FOR NEVER by Peter Nolan Smith on Kindle FREE

August 25, 2014 – 11:49 am

FAMOUS FOR NEVER is a semi-fictional recounting of a ne’er-do-well living in the East Village during the 1970s, Paris through the 1980s, and Asia into the 1990s. Peter Nolan Smith’s pingponging around the world has ricochetted him through the ranks of the famous and near-famous such as Jean Michel-Basquiat and Klaus Nomi without success ever […]

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Pattaya Walking Street 1987

June 21, 2014 – 8:21 pm

I wish I had a time machine to go back to 1987. I was living in New York doing blow. I can’t even remember if I was working. Walking Street would have been so much fun. The one-way ticket to Thailand couldn’t have cost more than $600, but I got it together by 1990. I […]

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IN THE ABSENCE OF AMNESIA by Peter Nolan Smith on KINDLE

April 21, 2014 – 11:21 am

New York in the summer of 1981 was everything it hadn’t been in the winter. The 90+ temperature boiled the asphalt. New Wave had replaced punk and somehow the city had escaped bankruptcy. Money flowed on the streets and even the East Village exhibited signs of regeneration, since abandoned tenements can only be burned so […]

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LONG PRONG by Peter Nolan Smith

February 19, 2014 – 8:00 pm

One night at the Privilege in Paris I was talking to a Vogue cover girl and said, “My friend really likes you.” “Vonelli?” “Yes.” The bearded art dealer made me laugh and I like that in anyone. “Not a chance.” Brigitte was nicknamed Cruella. She had broken many hearts, but I was immune to her […]

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Oink Oink Sniffer Snout

November 12, 2013 – 7:15 pm

Back in the 80s I exited Paris at Charles De Gaulle Aeroport. A French SWAT team had cordoned off a corridor. An unclaimed bag lay against the wall. After a minute a small pig trotted over to the bag and sniffed at the potential ‘bombe’ with its pink little snout. The pig shook its head […]

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