Category Archives: NEW YORK

Vagabonding In The City

October 26, 2017 – 2:54 pm

My disaster stint in Alaska cost my apartment in Fort Greene. Too many hours. Too little money. How little? $100 for a thirteen hour day. I wasn’t cut out for selling silver trinkets to geriatric cruise line passengers. May was not the month to make sales in Juneau. Six days a week. I lasted a […]

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Near-Lethal Farts

October 10, 2017 – 11:14 am

Passing gas has been a great source of humor since Adam’s first fart aka the undivine wind. Throughout history comedians have eked jokes from this human frailty. My best i.e. worst fart was at the Ritz in New York City. Public Image was on stage. I had eaten a bad oyster and my intestines gurgled […]

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Randall’s Island Now

September 3, 2017 – 2:18 pm

In July of 1970 Randall’s Island at the confluence of East River and Long Island Sound hosted the Randall’s Island Pop Festival. The concert organizers originally had scheduled three-days of shows, however several headliners cancelled the third day. While Jimi Hendrix as always sold the show, the Village Voice called the gathering ‘the day the […]

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FAMOUS FOR NEVER On Kindle For $1.99

August 24, 2017 – 1:39 am

FAMOUS FOR NEVER is a semi-fictional recounting of a ne’er-do-well living in the East Village during the 1970s, Paris through the 1980s, and Asia into the 1990s. Peter Nolan Smith’s ping-ponging around the world has ricochetted him through the ranks of the famous and near-famous such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Klaus Nomi without his ever […]

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Helen Levitt’s PHOTOS FROM THEN

August 23, 2017 – 3:14 am

Last summer a friend from the Rockaways was selling a camera collection. Leicas and Hasselblads. They had cost a fortune in the 70s. I offered him $500. He said no and sold them for $600. I should have upped my bid, because nothing is better than real film. Just take a look at these photos […]

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