Category Archives: friends

FURY FORGOTTEN by Peter Nolan Smith

November 7, 2010 – 8:01 pm

After the bank crash New York City became concrete hard for anyone over 50. Successful friends moved out of your pay bracket and your old slot was replaced by twenty year-olds willing to work for less. Faced with faltering income expectations middle-age men and women looked beyond the borders of the five boroughs and contemplated […]

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The End Is Neigh

October 23, 2010 – 5:42 pm

Riots in Paris, floods in Thailand, the religious right praying to bring the Nazis back to cleanse America. The born-agains claim this is the End of Time like my good friend, the ex-model from Paris the ex-model from Paris Dont mix GOD up with RELIGION Religious Demons 5-29-10 watchmenradio.podomatic.com Guest: Pastor John Goguen Peter Nolan […]

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Malpracticed English

September 18, 2010 – 11:57 am

Most writers pride themselves in the mastery of their written language. Words strung together to create a world accessible to the reader. The nuns of Our Lady of the Foothills taught their students the proper spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation with the aid of a yardstick. Mistakes in orthography were punished as […]

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The Past Refound

August 31, 2010 – 6:57 am

My possessions are scattered across two houses in Thailand, a mountaintop cabin north of Santa Cruz, two farms in upstate New York, my apartment in Fort Greene, and my sister’s house outside of Boston, however I was surprised this weekend to hear my host Billy O say at his Easthampton house, “I have several boxes […]

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ONLY A FEW REGRETS by Peter Nolan Smith

August 17, 2010 – 7:30 am

“Regrets I have a few, but not too few to mention.” Frank Sinatra sang in MY WAY. I myself only have regrets about the things I have not done for I can live with those I have done; the good, the bad, and the in-between, however other people are not so self-forgiving. The other day […]

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