Category Archives: Crime

Bummed By The Sopranos

April 24, 2012 – 6:00 pm

Last month AP my landlord informed me that I could watch HBO on my iPad. “What would you suggest?” I hadn’t watched American TV in ten years. “A good place to start would be THE SOPRANOS.” The cable series about a New Jersey mafia family had been a success for HBO. Wikipedia called it the [...]

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WHY I MISS JUNKIES by Peter Nolan Smith

April 24, 2012 – 3:45 pm

(published in OPEN CITY MAGAZINE 2002) Most New Yorkers depended on air-conditioning to survive the heat waves of summer, unfortunately AC always felt to me, as if a dirty old man from the Arctic who isn’t Santa Claus was breathing down my neck. I actually like the heat and any temperature under 92 is survivable [...]

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LOUIE LOUIE by Richard Berry

April 23, 2012 – 6:58 pm

The origin LOUIE LOUIE was released by Richard Berry in April of 1957. Over 55 years ago and the 45 sold 40,000 copies. There was no fuck in it like the later cover by the Kingsmen. Berry sold his rights to Flip records for $750. And they stole all his money. You know who ‘they’ [...]

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The Language Of Thieves

April 12, 2012 – 1:15 pm

Back in the 80s I lived on Ile St. Louis with a South African model. Her husband paid the rent. He lived in the South of France, where he had a clothing factory in Biot. Vanesse had lied to her husband and said that I was gay. “I have nothing against ‘gay’. Guy had fought [...]

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GOOD AS IT GETS FOR GERMANS by Peter Nolan Smith

April 5, 2012 – 9:02 am

My friend Fabo had heart of gold and the young Belgian oil explorer was happiest with a Heineken in his hand and his eye on Gai, the Rubenesque beauty of the Buffalo Bar. He had loved her forever. She loved him too in her own way, whenever she could do so. Gai was a popular [...]

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