Tag Archives: beer

The Lent Of No Beer 2015

March 5, 2025 – 9:58 am

Lent is the six-week period of Catholic fasting from Ash Wednesday to Easter, allowing the faithful the chance to atone for the previous year’s sins by mirroring the span of time the Messiah spend in the desert before He succumbed to the temptations not of Satan, but his own mortal flesh. While I’m a full-blown […]

By Peter | Posted in Drinking, religion, semi-fiction | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

Black Friday Beer

November 29, 2024 – 9:59 am

Today on Black Friday millions of Americans hit the shopping malls to purchase marked-down electronics and toys. This frenzied spending spree kicked off the Christmas shopping season. This year’s Black Friday was an all ugly affair and the event has getting uglier by the year. The term ‘black Friday originated from Philadelphia retailers’ description of […]

By Peter | Posted in capitalism, greed, holiday | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Holy Saturday

March 30, 2024 – 4:06 pm

In 2009 AP and his family left Fort Greene for the Easter Weekend. I spent the time alone in the brownstone, feeding the cats, turtle, and fish. My sense of worth was low and I treat the self-loathing with beer, preferably Narragansett. That lager tasted of New England. Saturday morning morning I finished re-writing IN […]

By Peter | Posted in brooklyn, holiday | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

HillBilly Ranch Bar Boston – 1999

February 20, 2024 – 4:45 am

As you get old you forget. as you get older, you are forgotten – anon I know that I didn’t come up with that quote, because I haven’t really forget everything yet and several years ago I reminisced about Lost Boston with a few old-timers during an afternoon Jacob Wirth’s bar, while killing time waiting […]

By Peter | Posted in 70s, boston, Drinking, Legend, myth | Also tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

THE BEST FORM OF FLATTERY by Peter Nolan Smith

August 10, 2023 – 4:31 am

Written Sep 24, 2010 Midtown traffic was snarled by the security measures protecting foreign dignitaries from any harm during the annual UN General Assembly. Crosstown streets were closed east of 5th Avenue and the beeping tentacles of the congestion packed Madison Avenue. My bus took twenty minutes to cover ten blocks. I was late for […]

By Peter | Posted in Art, brooklyn, Drinking, friends, myth, semi-fiction | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)