Category Archives: friends

LITTLE AMERICA IN HOT WATER by Peter Nolan Smith

December 14, 2013 – 10:05 pm

In September 1973 Nick and I stood on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley with a horde of other hippies flocking home after a California summer. Nick was headed to Oklahoma, where his BMW had been repaired after a crash in Tulsa. My destination was Boston to complete my final year of university. I sat on my […]

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Honor To Doctor Nick

December 14, 2013 – 9:52 pm

My longtime friend Doctor Neil Nepola was honored for his service to Staten Island. We met in European History 101 back in 1970. He married a beautiful wife, raised a loving family, and remains one of my dearest friend. Back in 1973 Neil and I were standing on University Avenue in Berkely. A Ford Pinto […]

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Shannon’s On The Case

November 26, 2013 – 9:28 pm

Shannon woke with a hangover. It had lasted two days. The phone rang. Bill, his partner said, “I need you.” The next sound was a death rattle. Bill was now his ex-partner. Shannon got out of bed with his hangover intact. He picked up his gat. Someone was going to pay for Bill. Outside in […]

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Murmansk to St. Petersburg

November 7, 2013 – 8:29 am

Russian authorities have transferred Frank Hewetson and his twenty-nine Greenpeace activists from Murmansk to a St. Peterburg prison. This might seem like good news, however families and friends have yet to be in contact with the prisoners and the charge of environmental hooliganism carries a sentence of seven years. This charge was leveled against the […]

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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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