Category Archives: Love

Valentine Day ala Thai

February 14, 2025 – 7:49 am

Valentine’s Day has been globalized around the world, although few people know the exact origins of why we send hearts to loved ones. The tradition has been attributed to a Roman priest Valentine who performed marriages against the wishes of the Roman Emperor. His punishment was execution, but not before supposedly addressing a farewell note […]

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Valentine Globalization – 2007

February 14, 2025 – 7:17 am

Valentine’s Day has become a global holiday, although few people know the exact origins of why hearts are sent to loved ones. The tradition has been mainly attributed to a Roman priest Valentine who performed Christian marriages against the wishes of the Roman Emperor. According to Wikipedia Emperor Claudius took a liking to this prisoner […]

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St. Valentine’s Day Massacre / BET ON CRAZY by Peter Nolan Smith

February 14, 2025 – 4:18 am

Every Valentine’s Day diamond dealers and jewelers on 47th Street anticipated a winter spending spree by lovers for their loved ones, but each year of the 21st Century the sales numbers dropped drastically, as the economic downturn cut into everyone’s surplus, but the rich. Valentine afternoon in February 2011 shoppers crammed the chocolatiers along 5th […]

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Loneliness On The Day Of Love

February 14, 2025 – 3:12 am

The snow fell with silence The clots of flakes feathered the sidewalks Snow shovels scrapped on the concrete I threw out no salt___ Drifts collected by the bottom of brownstones No one came to shovel away the floes That was an old man’s job Mine___ Snow loves the cold I have good gear against winter […]

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Lisa Takes A Bath 1978

July 5, 2024 – 4:28 am

My apartment at 256 East 10th Street was a relic of tenement living. There were no electrical outlets in the bedroom. A water closet had a pull chain for the overhead tank. Warped wooden floors spread to crumbling plaster walls traveled by tribes of cockroaches. Girls didn’t like the insects, but they loved the bathtub […]

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