Category Archives: history

SPICE MAD DAY by Peter Nolan Smith

October 12, 2023 – 3:33 am

Last year I celebrated Columbus Day with my doctor on Staten Island. Nick was Italian and cooked great meatballs. The doctor and I had met during our freshman class of European History 101. We had received Bs from the professor. His kids had the day off and we enjoying the meal. “Hey, Nico, I have […]

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Autumn Stonehenge

September 21, 2023 – 4:25 am

Written 2010 The ancient Druids studied the movements of the Cosmos for millenia before the construction of Stonehenge. The earliest potholes date back to 8000 BC. The designs were laid out to measure the passage of the Sun, but not by the Druids or Picts. A Neolithic people lost to history save in legends. Two […]

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The Great Disappointment

August 7, 2023 – 12:21 pm

Written December 12, 2012 This world was a cesspool of sin for Christians in the early 19th Century, as Satan threatened the souls of the White Race through race miscegenation and women’s demands for equality were an attack on the eternal domination of men over the weaker sex. The United States was losing its religion […]

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Gem Spa Still Gone

April 18, 2023 – 10:52 am

Back East Village of the 1970s junkie prostitutes worked out of decrepit vans in the Bowery’s parking lots and Johnny Thunder pawned his guitar at the hock shops above St. Mark’s Place. The director of TAXI DRIVER filmed pre-teen Jodie Foster as a prostitute at that SRO hotel on 13th Street. Sighting William Burroughs shuffle […]

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EASTER 1916 – YEATS

April 9, 2023 – 5:45 am

EASTER 1916 I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of the head Or polite meaningless words, Or have lingered awhile and said Polite meaningless words, And thought before I had done Of a mocking tale or […]

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