Category Archives: animals

Fifi The Rasta

July 14, 2023 – 9:02 am

Back in the 1980s I loved Paris in the summertime, especially during ‘le Grand Depart’, France’s traditional month-long vacation slot. A large percentage of Parisian disappeared from the City of Light. The traffic or ‘circulation’ lessened and the skies cleared of diesel fumes. Of course hundreds of thousands of tourists replaced the native population in […]

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Dog Is Man’s Best Friend

June 5, 2023 – 2:15 am

Why Some Men Have Dogs And Not Wives: 1. The later you are, the more excited your dogs are to see you. 2. Dogs don’t notice if you call them by another dog’s name. 3. Dogs like it if you leave a lot of things on the floor. 4. A dog’s parents never visit. 5. […]

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ANGUS

May 13, 2023 – 11:24 am

I had a Scottie in Paris 1980s Angus Not really mine. Bridget’s, But the Vogue model was rarely home. Angus and I were alone A lot We went drinking together Angus liked Kronenburg He lapped the beer from a dish On the bar Not much He wasn’t a serious drinker Preferred to be on the […]

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A BARK BETTER THAN A BITE by Peter Nolan Smith

November 24, 2022 – 1:24 pm

Every diamond shop on West 47th Street was open seven days a week from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve. Sales people, guards, elevator operators, schleppers, cutters, setters, polishers, and even Lennie the Bum slaved throughout the holiday rush in hopes of scoring enough cash to buy presents. Stores extended their normal hours to entice late-night shoppers. […]

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Sleeping Tiger

September 2, 2022 – 10:09 am

British actress Patricia Laffan starred as Nero’s wife Poppaea. The director required her to sit with a leopard during a lavish dinner sequence. Big cats are notorious fickle with their favor, but she shows no sign of fear. Neither did I at Nong Nooch Gardens with a junkie tiger. He didn’t even bother to snarl […]

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