Category Archives: Crime

Bummed By The Sopranos

April 24, 2012 – 6:00 pm

Last month AP my landlord informed me that I could watch HBO on my iPad. “What would you suggest?” I hadn’t watched American TV in ten years. “A good place to start would be THE SOPRANOS.” The cable series about a New Jersey mafia family had been a success for HBO. Wikipedia called it the […]

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The Language Of Thieves

April 12, 2012 – 1:15 pm

Back in the 80s I lived on Ile St. Louis with a South African model. Her husband paid the rent. He lived in the South of France, where he had a clothing factory in Biot. Vanesse had lied to her husband and said that I was gay. “I have nothing against ‘gay’. Guy had fought […]

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BACK FROM THE DEAD by peter nolan smith

March 6, 2012 – 1:55 pm

ONE DEGREE OF SEPARATION By Peter Nolan Smith John Guare in his play SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION contended that everyone in the world was connected to everyone in the world by six people. Sometimes even less. My sister-in-law had worked at the CIA for George Bush, whose father met Hitler, so I’m connected to Der […]

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Cause Of Death Unknown

March 2, 2012 – 2:19 pm

Controversy quickly filled in the gaps of knowledge about the death of Andrew Breitbart. The right-wing agitator had shared a few drinks at a LA restaurant with a marketing executive. The conservative provocateur sipped at his wine, while engaging the man about politics. The conversation was aggressive, yet friendly, and several other drinkers engaged the […]

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Do Not Pass Go

February 29, 2012 – 8:13 pm

The scion of the Murdoch Media Empire announced his departure as News International chairman. Both the corporation and James Murdoch have been plagued by accusations of criminal hacking by reporters and the payment of bribes to British policemen for assistance in squashing any investigations into wrongdoings. His 81 year-old father has resumed total control of […]

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