Category Archives: The West

Isn’t That John Waters

June 8, 2012 – 5:46 pm

BACK AND FORTH my novel about hitchhiking cross-country is on the verge of completion. Two more segments will about my writing THE END on the last page. I’ve been trying to finish those two stories for most of April and May, but like a Texan two-laner the books keeps stretching toward an ever-distant horizon. Throughout […]

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UP HIGH by Peter Nolan Smith

April 9, 2012 – 10:15 pm

The afternoon sun hovered over the distant mountains to the West. I checked the clock over the Inferno Lounge’s bar. The hands of the old time instrument said 10:24. I pointed to it and the bartender said,?It?s been broke for years. The regulars like it that way.” I held out my hand to the gap […]

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Bonneville Speed Flats – Craig Breedlove / Spirit of America 1963

April 3, 2012 – 1:25 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZO12xkvU2M&feature=related 407.45 mph Land Speed Record August 5, 1963 I was eight years old.

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Bonneville Salt Flats August 1972

April 3, 2012 – 11:02 am

In summer of 1967 I was a 15 year-old boy living on the South Shore of Boston. The newspapers and TV spoke about the youth people with long hair converging on San Francisco. These ‘hippies’ were the next step in the evolution of freedom. They preached peace and love. 3000 miles separated my body and […]

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Fuck Ferrari

December 6, 2011 – 10:55 am

2008 started badly for me, when Thai cops raided my house in Pattaya with a warrant citing me with copyright infringement of Ferrari designed clothing. The investigators for the Italian sports car stood on the sidewalk, as the chief inspector from the Cyber-Crimes Unit in Bangkok approached me. His underlings had hands on their guns. […]

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