Category Archives: cool

What Would Johnny Thunders Do?

April 1, 2020 – 11:54 am

What would Johnny Thunders do in these times? Sable Starr and a bag of Chinese Rocks. To hear CHINESE ROCKS by Johnny Thunders and Heartbreakers, please go this URL

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WHEN FAT MEN FLY by Peter Nolan Smith Chapter 2

March 7, 2020 – 12:15 am

Two days before New Year’s Eve Sookie and Marie arrived at Wayne’s house. The two girls wore matching white leather jackets, mini-skirts, knee-high boots, and turtleneck sweater. They were excited about their first trip to the big city and Marie asked Wayne’s mom, “Do we look like sisters?” “Like Eva and Zsa-Zsa Gabor.” Wayne’s mom […]

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Cleveland’s Finest

November 2, 2019 – 6:57 am

Cleveland was supposedly the site of the first rock and roll concert. March 21, 1952. A little more than two months before my birth in late May. 20,000 youths crowded the 10,000 capacity Cleveland Arena. The police shut down the show before the opening act, Paul “Hucklebuck” Williams, finished his first song. The civic leaders […]

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Banned From Facebook

October 27, 2018 – 7:41 pm

A Paris friend reported a Facebook ban for posting an invitation for the fabulous Palace Disco featuring a naked woman. It was neither pornographic nor obscene, except to the Taliban and America’s religious right. I protested their decision by posting a shot of porno star Marc Stevens dancing at Studio 54. Naked. Within minutes I […]

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Quote of the Day / Billy Wilder

February 25, 2017 – 11:30 am

“If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.” Billy Wilder Oscar Winning Director and Writer Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, and my favorite The Apartment

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