Category Archives: animals

Jellyfish Stings

Summering along the Cite D’Azur Krove was subjected to the lash of jellyfish tenacles. Painful red welts rose on his forearm. A French friend suggested dabbing the affected area with vinegar and a guest from New York said, “The boys at Riis Park used to pee on the welts.” “Well, I’m certainly not one of […]

Drone Sweet Drone

General Curtis Le May defended his indiscriminate bombing of German and Japanese civilians by saying, “If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.” The much-decorated Air Force general proposed bombing the Vietnamese into ‘the Stone Age’. Presidents Johnson and Nixon bought his high horizon thought. And Nixon actually thought that the 1972 Christmas Bombing […]

Howling At The Moon

Susan Hannaford on Berlin posted on Facebook that this evening’s full moon was known as the Wolf Moon. The title comes from Native Americans of the Northern Forests, because of the lupine choirs heard around their villages and encampments in the depth of winter. The Sioux called January the time ‘when wolves run together’” Th […]

THE POLITESSE OF PALM BEACH COPS by Peter Nolan Smith

Back in the summer of 2008 I was taking care of a Palm Beach mansion. It was deep off-season and hurricane season was coming on fast. One evening I went over to my friend’s house close to the center on town. After dinner Lisa killed me at scrabble. She scored 33 points for xi, which […]

Canine Menage a Trois

Canine love on my old soi in Pattaya. Arf Arf Arf.