Tag Archives: bet on crazy

HANG UP Tagline

July 29, 2014 – 10:34 am

The other afternoon at a 8th Street bar I was drinking with several friends discussing the reasons for my movie script not having found a home. “BET ON CRAZY has it all, a diamond heist, love, violence.” “Yes, but that doesn’t says anything.” Jason came from Malibu. He had movie star friends. He had helped […]

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

BET ON CRAZY – THE FOUR CS By Peter Nolan Smith [Kindle Edition]

May 22, 2014 – 11:26 am

In 1990 a friend in the New York’s Diamond District asked me to help him at his exchange. I knew nothing about diamonds other than Superman could squeeze coal to create them. Coal was a diamond after intense pressure changed its density. At first that was all I knew, but I slowly learned about the […]

By Peter | Posted in Bet On Crazy, Diamonds, kindle, semi-fiction | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

SOME CHOWDAH, BOBBY by Peter Nolan Smith

March 26, 2014 – 2:42 pm

Last holiday season Richie Boy had hired me to help with sales and schlepping merchandise between dealers and jewelers. Hlove and I worked together to make sales, but business on 47th Street was murder. There was no foot traffic and my old customers hated the street and all the hawkers shilling to buy gold. “Back […]

By Peter | Posted in Bet On Crazy, NEW YORK, semi-fiction | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

GLATT BACCHUS by Peter Nolan Smith

February 5, 2014 – 3:54 pm

These days most people in America survive from paycheck to paycheck and New York’s Diamond District has been feeling the pinch, so that my bosses Richie Boy and his father Manny couldn’t offer me a place behind the counter upon my return from the Orient. “It’s brutal out there.” Manny always kvetched about business, but […]

By Peter | Posted in Bet On Crazy, Diamonds, Drinking, semi-fiction | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

OLD BROWNIE by Peter Nolan Smith

January 22, 2014 – 8:12 pm

Yesterday was a quiet day on 47th Street. A winter snow was having its way with New York City. Snow piled up on the street. The porters had a hard time clearing the sidewalk and I was having difficulty looking busy. There was nothing to do. No one came into the store. No dealers, no […]

By Peter | Posted in Bet On Crazy, Diamonds | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)