Tag Archives: new york

Empty Basketball Courts

October 17, 2009 – 3:25 pm

My skill at basketball is worse than mediocre on offense. My defense has been called tenacious by my friends and dirty by my opponents. Doctor Nick has warned against any further play. “A man in his late 50s should know when to stop.” Sound advice, except I love the feel of the basketball leaving my […]

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

Pierre of the Plaza Hotel RIP 2008-2009

March 30, 2009 – 11:29 am

The Plaza Hotel has been one of New York City’s premier destination since its opening in 1905. Truman Capote held his Black and White fete in the Grand Ballroom, Neil Simon wrote PLAZA SUITE about an afternoon in the hotel, and during the 1978 Black-Out I rushed to the Oak Room for a bucket of […]

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

44DDD

January 10, 2009 – 5:31 pm

Last evening I attended an opening for THE ART OF LIZ RENAY curated by SCOTT EWALT at the 76 Grand Street Gallery. The late artist’s contributions spanned two centuries in exotic dancing, literature, and film most notably as Divine’s co-star in John Waters’ 1977 paean to bad taste DESPERATE LIVING, but she was much more […]

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

Rejection for MAYBE TOMORROW

October 24, 2008 – 5:19 pm

Last year I re-wrote my punk novel MAYBE TOMORROW. The story is about a car thief, gay hustler, and a runaway teenage girl who form a punk band in 1976 to rip-off a rich kid, but fail because they succeed musically for one night. I first sent 30 pages of this book to Emma Parry, […]

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

IN ABSENCE OF AMNESIA by Peter Nolan Smith

August 3, 2008 – 10:50 am

New York in the summer of 1981 was everything it wasn’t in the winter of 1979. The temperature boiled the asphalt. Punk had been replaced by New Wave and somehow the city had escaped bankruptcy. Money flowed on the streets and even the East Village exhibited signs of regeneration, since abandoned tenements can only be […]

By Peter | Posted in East Village, Love, NEW YORK, PARIS, Sex | Also tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)