Monthly Archives: June 2016

Polar Flight Seat #60A

June 13, 2016 – 1:02 am

Seat 60A in a window. I slept most of the journey over the pole, waking occasionally to peer out the 777’s porthole. Below was the long Arctic night and overhead five stars were visible through the pitted flexi-glass. Virgin was offering a real Space voyage to intrepid ‘astronauts’. $200,000 to ride Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin […]

By Peter | Posted in Space, Travel | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Aurora Borealis / Jack London

June 13, 2016 – 12:57 am

“With the Aurora Borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading […]

By Peter | Posted in quotes, Space | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

A Night Without Northen Lights

June 13, 2016 – 12:32 am

From my roof I sought the northern lights The moon shone silver in the clear night keeping the aurora borealis out of sight banning the promised show from a city too bright. clouds soon blanketed the heavens with a soft white disappointed I descended from the the roof’s heights to my room and drink beer […]

By Peter | Posted in brooklyn, NEW YORK, Space | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Libre Puerto Rico

June 12, 2016 – 11:41 am

On September 12th of 1983 Víctor Manuel Gerena dropped off his girl at Hartford City Hall to get a marriage license after which the minimum-wage guard finished the day’s work at Wells Fargo armored car facility by drugging his two white co-workers and robbing the depot of $7,000,000 in cash. His girlfriend was stranded at […]

By Peter | Posted in 80s, revolution | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Headless Farang in Bangkok

June 11, 2016 – 6:18 pm

Jamie Parker remains my eyes and ears in Thailand. Wehave known each other for decades. Our tastes coincide more often than not, although Jamie’s fun usually begins where mine ends, which is why I told him not to spy on either my girlfriend or wife during this extended absence from Siam. My wife lives in […]

By Peter | Posted in Bangkok | Tagged , , | Comments (0)