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Sunny Cold And Loud

December 30, 2012 – 1:28 pm

Last night I went to bed at a decent hour. My eyes closed reading AMERICAN TABLOID by James Ellroy. He really hated the Kennedys and I dreamed about my meeting RFK at the Lower Mills trolley stop in 1966. JFK’s younger brother shook my hand with the a reincarnated firmness. I attempted to warn him […]

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Snow, Rain or Ice

December 29, 2012 – 8:02 pm

New York was spared a White Christmas for the holiday, but weathermen predicted a winter storm due for this weekend. I woke early in the Fort Greene Observatory. The skyline over the brownstones promised to back up their report. Within an hour snowflakes swirled in the air and I touched the window. It was cold […]

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THE DEATH OF ME by Peter Nolan Smith

November 28, 2012 – 10:10 am

Last December I attended the opening of the “Dream’ exhibition at Luxembourg’s Mudam Museum. Madame l’Ambassador bailed from the event early for a formal dinner with diplomats. I was not invited for supper. “It’s a diplomatic thingee.” Madame l’Ambassador explained, as we walked through a thickening fog to the waiting Jaguar. “I understand.” A writer-in-residence […]

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The Forgotten Borough

November 2, 2012 – 4:31 pm

Two weeks ago I ferried across the lower harbor to Staten Island. My college friend Nick had invited me to watch the Jets versus the Patriots at his house on Lighthouse Hill. We have a lovely day drinking wine, eating homemade Italian food, and even better the Pats beat the Jets. Nick drove me down […]

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Crazy Gay Climate Changers

November 1, 2012 – 3:35 pm

hurricane sandy, religious right, john McTernan Bible analyst John McTernan has proclaimed, “Just last August, Hurricane Isaac hit New Orleans seven years later, on the exact day of Hurricane Katrina. Both hit during the week of the homosexual event called Southern Decadence in New Orleans!” Strangely, both also hit at the height of hurricane season. […]

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