Category Archives: youth

NINES by Peter Nolan Smith

April 5, 2015 – 7:59 pm

Easter was a special holiday for our family. My mother was a devout Catholic. My father had converted from agnosticism to marry his Irish bride. The Bowdoin College grad was a good dresser and they attired their six children, as if we were the jewels of empire. Every Easter we wore new clothes from tie […]

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The Birth Of Puberty

March 26, 2015 – 12:40 pm

This morning the temperature in New York finally rose above freezing. This afternoon my longtime fiend AK phoned from Jupiter Beach. “It’ll be in the 80s later. We might go to the beach.” “Not a chance I’m swimming at the Rockaways till this summer.” The ocean was never warm off New York. “I called to […]

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WHITE BIRD by It’s a Beautiful Day

February 24, 2015 – 7:53 pm

Maynard G. Krebs made me a beatnik, but songs like WHITE BIRD transformed me into a long haired hippie. David LaFlamme’s plaintive song with the greatest violin solo of the psychedelic era has me hankering for LSD, although listening to this classic by It’s A Beautiful Day is enough to flashback to those days of […]

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Moonshine, Masturbation, and Eclipses By Peter Nolan Smith

January 30, 2015 – 9:07 am

Children are cruel by nature. Young boys and girls instinctively bully the weak and ridicule the infirm. There was nothing funnier than a cheap trick at the cost of a poor unfortunate in keeping with the ageless adage, “Comedy is when a beggar falls down the stairs. Tragedy is when a duchess does.” In the […]

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Spiderman #1 Marvel Comics 1964

January 24, 2015 – 11:04 am

Spiderman #1 is a valuable comic. Even more valuable is the Marvel Tales introduction to the superhero. This comic book is worth several hundred thousand dollars in mint condition and I had bought Amazing Fantasy #15 in August 1962 at the little soda shop near my Nana’s house in Wollaston, Massachusetts and year later purchased […]

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