Category Archives: Crime

I Sit Corrected

February 25, 2012 – 2:51 pm

Paris had been my home during the 1980s. I had good reasons to be out of the States. My name graced a FBI report about police corruption in New York and Ronald Reagan was in the White House. France was on the other side of the Atlantic and I felt safe in my hotel room […]

By Peter | Also posted in 60s, france, myth, PARIS, scam, semi-fiction | Tagged | Comments (0)

Attica In Trang Prison

February 10, 2012 – 7:41 pm

In August 1971 over half the inmates at New York’s Attica State Prison took control of the correction facilities in response to a prisoner being subjected to torture in his cell. 33 officers held hostage by the rioters and state officials agreed to most of the demands, however Governor Rockefeller refused to grant amnesty and […]

By Peter | Also posted in Drugs, Liberty, revolution, Thailand | Comments (0)

Ben Gazzara RIP

February 5, 2012 – 7:18 am

The actor Ben Gazarra passed away last week. He starred in TV and movies for over sixty years, but I will always remember him from his staggering honest role as a luckless LA strip club owner. The 1976 John Cassavetes film opens with Cosmo Vitelli paying off a gambling debt to a loanshark at a […]

By Peter | Also posted in 70s, Movies / TV, RIP | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Asshole of 2011

January 19, 2012 – 4:17 am

TIME magazine’s Person of the Year was the protestor. Governments in Egypt and Tunisia were ousted by people fed up with the status quo of the few rich ruling of the many poor. The western media attempted to portray this change as the seeds of democracy, but were surprised by faceless protestors in America assailing […]

By Peter | Also posted in Liberty, NEW YORK, revolution | Comments (0)

YELLOW TEETH by Peter Nolan Smith

December 31, 2011 – 1:35 am

I have been arrested several times in my life. Age 12 for vandalizing an abandoned missile base overlooking Boston Harbor Age 21 for driving over a bed of flowers at a girl’s college in Newton. Age 25 for running an after-hour club in Manhattan. Age 31 in Paris for grafitting the British Embassy wall. The […]

By Peter | Also posted in 2000s, Pattaya, Thailand | Comments (0)