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A STEP INTO TOMORROW by Peter Nolan Smith

January 25, 2013 – 8:31 pm

Back in the 1970s rebellious young people fled their hometowns to find solace with like kinds in the East Village. The last decade had depopulated the Lower East Side and we found new lives in the forlorn tenements. In 1976 I escaped Boston in a stolen car and my girlfriend from West Virginia joined me […]

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MAYBE TOMORROW – A novel by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 2

August 18, 2012 – 10:17 am

The clouded horizon buried the autumn sun and a moonless darkness soon smothered the Connecticut Hills with a wolfish gloom challenged only by the funnel of holiday traffic on the Interstate. Few travelers noticed the rundown motel hidden in the woods off exit 74. Its neon sign had been out of order since the summer. […]

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Damita of CBGBs

July 16, 2012 – 6:42 am

CBGBs was the la Scala of the East Village during the 1970s. Debby Harry was our Maria Callas, but not all the action was on stage. The lives of the musicians and regulars intertwined for minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years. None of pretended that we were family, but I regard my friends and […]

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ZOMBIE DANCE / THE CRAMPS

October 31, 2011 – 4:48 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0a6KHD_gwQ

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Sucker Punch

August 18, 2011 – 7:11 am

The CBGB’s bathroom had many purposes. The main use was the traditional release of body waste. Another was spray-painting or magic-markering a band’s name atop the thousands of previous honorees of the toilet hall of fame. The inhalation of cocaine or heroin was more popular in the stalls than shooting up dope or speedballs. The […]

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