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Penang Gone

August 11, 2024 – 12:21 pm

Sumatra was a lost world in 1990. Tigers prowled the western jungles of Indonesia’s largest island, active volcanoes glowed in the night, and I drank Bintang beer with the ancestors of headhunters on the shore of Lake Toba 1500 meters above the sea and the night air was chilly after months along the equator . […]

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Goodbye Subway Inn – 2014

July 14, 2024 – 6:16 am

On July 24, 2014 I had a last drink at the Subway Inn on East 60th Street. The property owners were evicting the 77-year-old Manhattan bar to erect a towering luxury condo. I first drank in the Subway back in 1977. It was a classic dive bar then and most recently my boss frowned upon […]

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KILL THE RICH CHAPTER 2 By Peter Nolan Smith

September 2, 2021 – 5:41 pm

Two NYPD homicide detectives stood in front of the Vent du Sol. Uniformed officers kept the curious behind the yellow tape. Dead men attract spectators. The rubberneckers weren’t looking for the victim to come back to life, but waited to see if anything else out of the ordinary happened on this quiet Upper East Side […]

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KILL THE RICH CHAPTER 1 by Peter Nolan Smith

September 1, 2021 – 5:36 pm

The Vent de Sol was booked solid. The clientele hailed from the upper echelons of New York’s .0001%. Table # 4 sitting eight people was dominated by a 54 year-old man in an impeccably British tailored suit. No one in the Upper East Side bistro had earned more than the wily investment banker. No one […]

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$1 Billion For The Common Man

October 19, 2018 – 9:21 pm

Karl Marx co-authored THE COMMUNNIST MANIFESTO with the son of capitalist owning a large English Textile factory owner. Frederich Engels was the funnier of the two and once said, “Money is the only thing that can make a beautiful woman think a bald man isn’t bald.” The co-father of Communism was speaking about the rich. […]

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