Monthly Archives: July 2019

Fly Me to The Moon 50

July 20, 2019 – 11:12 am

July 20, 1969. The eyes of the world broke away from the Vietnam War, the Paris Uprising, and the Mets challenging the National League. Most people’s vision was fixed on the Moon, as TVs and radios reported the lunar landing of Apollo 11 to an anxious planet. This space mission had been inspired by the […]

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Le Liberte des Temps Passe

July 18, 2019 – 1:35 pm

In the summer of 1985 our gang opened a nightclub in the old port of Nice, France. Jacques, Albert, Serge, and I rode along the Corniche in Albert’s Chrysler Imperial. We swam at the rocky beach beneath the Promenade des Anglais and dined on bouillabaisse at the Nautique. The gangsters of Nice wanted to sell […]

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A Bad Bastille Day In NIce

July 14, 2019 – 1:25 pm

Last night I was at the 169 with Larry and he said, “Someone attacked a Bastille Day celebration in Nice with a truck.” “Truck?” Waldo asked on the other side of Larry. “Yes, a big lorry.” Larry was originally from England. Waldo whipped out his phone and connected to the internet. CNN was reporting over […]

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FAMOUS FOR NEVER by Peter Nolan Smith

July 9, 2019 – 1:40 pm

New York City teetered toward the edge of bankruptcy during America’s economic stagnation of the mid-70s. The Daily News splashed the headline FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD, after the president refused to bailout New York. The mayor was forced to slash every department’s budget to the bone and the city collapsed into a ruin rivaling […]

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Deconsume, Cocksuckers

July 8, 2019 – 8:23 pm

Billions of dollars have been spent to telling consumers to buy shit. Potato chips. Sugar cereals. Cars. Gas. And the world has been buried by this global suicidal frenzy. Billions of tons of plastic with everyone saying it isn’t me.” “IT IS YOU, YOU FAT PIGS.” Let us go back to the garden. You potato […]

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