Category Archives: 80s

The Surrender Army

May 7, 2011 – 11:11 pm

Back in the ever-distant last century the West confronted the Evil Empire of the USSR. Nuclear missiles were aimed at capitol cities, tanks were poised on the border, and armies ready armed for invasion. It was the time of the $4000 Pentagon Hammer and the $20,000 Air Force toilet. I proposed another secret weapon. The […]

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Story of the Week / Mr Bellers Neighborhood

February 15, 2011 – 8:26 am

As published in Mr Beller’s Neighborhood 1981 by peter nolan smith 02/14/2011 Neighborhood: East Village, West Village Everyone on the scene thought operating an after-hours club on top of a 14th Street theater was a good idea and Arthur Weinstein opened the Jefferson on New Year’s Eve 1980. During the week the loft was home […]

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The Longevity of Women

February 9, 2011 – 8:58 pm

My late Uncle Carmine theorized that the longevity of women was due to the fact that men wait for women and every minute and hour stolen from a man was stored within a genetic code of a woman’s body. In America that advantage of life over death amounted to more than five years and I […]

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Antha Thikarnta Mubarrak

January 31, 2011 – 8:34 am

In the autumn of 1982 I drove north from Paris toward Hamburg where I was working as a doorman at Bsirs. My journey was stalled outside the city limits by a massive police presence on the Autoroute. CRS police and French Army soldiers lined the exit ramps and guarded the overpasses. My orange VW Bug […]

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MUDD CLUB Reunion Highlights

December 23, 2010 – 10:24 pm

Thirty years later the Mudd Club lives if only for one night To see a little of that momentuous evening pleace go to this URL

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