Category Archives: Legend

Tom Verlaine July 29, 1978 / Bottom Line

February 6, 2023 – 1:44 pm
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SAY IT LOUD, I’M BAD AND I’M PROUD

January 16, 2023 – 5:56 am

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great orator. His speech I HAVE A DREAM is recognized as a masterpiece of the spoken word. I know parts of it by heart. Another voice for Civil Rights was the legendary James Brown. His songs united blacks and whites, but the Godfather of Soul sang about pride and […]

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CASSE-TOI BRIGITTE by Peter Nolan Smith

December 10, 2022 – 12:01 am

New York City showed its teeth the winter of 1980. The police were racketeering our after-hours nightclub. One of the Continental’s backers was a gangster from Odessa, Russia. Vadim was going out with my old girlfriend from Buffalo. The tough zek smuggled stolen icons and passed bad paper. Lisa looked good in his furs. Only […]

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A Boy Of Montana

July 8, 2022 – 11:59 am

My second choice for greatest athlete of the 20th Century has always been Evel Knievel. Mohammad Ali might have been the greatest fighter and Bill Russell won more NBA championships than any other basketball player, however the Butte, Montana native rode a motorcycle like a bank robber with the cops on his tail and refused […]

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Waiting For Andre

May 2, 2022 – 1:04 pm

Whenever the question arises at a bar about who was the greatest athlete, I allow everyone to offer their opinions. “Jim Thorpe.” He was a multi-talented competitor. “Ali.” Ali was a great fighter. Once the debate has lost steam I say, “Andre the Giant.” They argue that the Frenchman was only a wrestler, but Andre […]

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