Category Archives: 80s

A Nation Of Squares

August 30, 2013 – 10:02 pm

Last weekend former Disney child star Miley Cyrus upset countless people who don’t matter with her scantily-clad dance performance during a duet with Robin Thicke at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. The religious right reacted, as if the pert singer/dancer had shit in the Pope’s mouth during a remake of THE ARISTOCRATS, and Sean […]

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NOT A CHANCE by Peter Nolan Smith

August 16, 2013 – 8:09 pm

In 1984 I flew home from Paris for Christmas in Boston. After the holiday I headed south to New York. The East Village to be exact. New snow prettified Tompkins Square Park. Tomorrow it would be cold dirty slush. I had $200. Florida was 1200 miles away. Hitchhiking to Miami Beach took as long as […]

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The Free World

August 11, 2013 – 9:16 pm

Back in December of 1981 I showed up late at JFK for a Pan-Am flight to Boston. “No worries.” The young clerk picked up the phone. “The plane is still on the tarmac. We’ll drive you out to it.” “Really?” I couldn’t believe my good luck. “We aim to serve.” I followed him out of […]

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Via Afrika – Hey Boy (1984)

July 27, 2013 – 6:46 pm
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THE SEASON FOR GIVING by Peter Nolan Smith

July 26, 2013 – 11:46 pm

Early on the morning of December 24, 1985 Vonelli, Lizzie and I boarded a train at Gard Du Nord. I could see my breath in the cold. Lizzie exhaled a thick cloud of smoke. She liked her Gaulloises. Lord Ventnor had invited us to spend the Christmas Holiday on the Isle of Wight. The train […]

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