Monthly Archives: October 2015

No Nude Playboy

October 19, 2015 – 4:33 pm

In 1953 Hugh Hefner launched Playboy with a $1000 loan from his mother and the magazine’s first cover featured a black and white shot of Marilyn Monroe at the height of her beauty. The blonde starlet starred as the centerfold. According to Wikipedia the first issue sold out within a week and circulation hit 50,000 […]

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Good Friends Talk Shit

October 19, 2015 – 1:15 pm

“Friends talk about sex. Good friends talk about taking a shit.” – Pascha Ray

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FAMOUS FOR NEVER by Peter Nolan Smith on Kindle (EXCERPT)

October 19, 2015 – 12:52 pm

FAMOUS FOR NEVER is a semi-fictional recounting of the life of a ne’er-do-well living in the East Village during the 1970s, Paris throughout the 1980s, and Asia for the 1990s. Peter Nolan Smith’s pingponging through the world ricochetted him through the ranks of the famous and near-famous such as Jean Michel-Basquiat and Klaus Nomi without […]

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THE MYTH OF THE MAGNA CARTA

October 19, 2015 – 10:12 am

Last week Francois the driver for the embassy met me at Luxembourg Airport. The Frenchman greeted me warmly and drove to the EEU court of Justice in Kirchenburg, where the Magna Carta was on display. “Madame Ambassador is waiting for the Grand Duke.” “The Grand Duke will be there?” I was dressed in Boston Celtics […]

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The Source Of The Gowanus Canal

October 12, 2015 – 7:26 pm

The native Lenape Indian tribe had fished and hunted the Gowanus Creek since the Ice Age. Gowanus Creek was first explored by Henry Hudson and Giovanni da Verrazzano. The Dutch bought the land to raise tobacco and later built a grist mill to process wheat and corn. The Dutch also harvested oysters by the billions. […]

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