Category Archives: California

SPEAKING WITH SEALS by Peter Nolan Smith

January 9, 2014 – 10:04 pm

August turned hot in San Diego. Floe and I slept outdoors under the stars. Two sleeping bags served as our mattress and a single sheet covered our bodies throughout the night. I told her everything. After recounting the fight with the junkie thieves in Haight-Ashbury, she said, “You scare me.” “Why?” I was telling her […]

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Fight Club Pussies

October 5, 2013 – 12:52 pm

A couple of years ago Big Al told me about a bar in the Valley. “Where people like to fight. You wanna go?” Big Al and I had met in Pattaya. It was the Last Babylon on Earth. “Do I have to fight?” “No, you can watch, you pussy.” Big Al was 300 plus and […]

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Behind The Beverly Hills Hotel 1977

July 13, 2013 – 5:53 pm

Life was different in 1977. We had fun. And we were fun. Behind The Beverly Hills Hotel: Photograph by Brad Elterman see https://missrosen.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/brad-elterman-like-it-was-yesterday/

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Going West

July 13, 2013 – 2:14 pm

This week my young nephew left Boston to drive to California. A good friend was accompanying Franka on his cross-country trip. I called to offer advice on a route. “We’re driving to Pittsburgh to see my grandmother.” Zsa Zsa was in a nursing home there. Seeing his face would make her happy. “Are you passing […]

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TAKE ME by Peter Nolan Smith

May 2, 2013 – 7:48 pm

The summer of 1972. Seal Beach south of LA. My college friend and I were staying at his cousin’s beach house. We liked drinking in the dive bar on the PCH. Fish swan underneath a sheet of glass. We thought that was cool. Both of us were 19. Two nights before out departure for San […]

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