Category Archives: Driving

Faster Than Hell

December 7, 2011 – 8:59 am

Back in 1984 a Paris friend bought a fiendishly fast KZ 1100 cc bike. Our connection was drugs. One evening we were sitting at La Savanne, an African bar serving the last dregs of the night. Cocaine and Heroin. On night sitting at an African transvestite after-hour bar in Les Halles, le Savanne, Francois dangled [...]

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Fuck Ferrari

December 6, 2011 – 10:55 am

2008 ended badly for me, when Thai cops raided my house in Pattaya with a warrant citing me with copyright infringement of Ferrari designed clothing. Their investigators stood on the sidewalk, as the chief inspector from the Cyber-Crimes Unit in Bangkok approached me. His underlings had hands on their guns. They wanted me to bolt [...]

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AN EAR FOR THE ROAD by Peter Nolan Smith

November 29, 2011 – 8:27 am

A dawn of rain, drizzle, snow, and ice pellets greeted Boston on the first day of 1975. The skies on the second day of January were overcast, but the temperature rose to the 40s, as I walked with a canvas bag over my shoulder to the Mass Avenue onramp of the Mass. Pike. It was [...]

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Wheels Of Fire

November 3, 2011 – 10:28 am

In the late summer of 1971 my college friend Paul Deseret and I were hitchhiking to the West Coast. We had friends living in the Haight. They were girls. I had had sex with one of them. Sleeping with Marilyn again was enough of a reason to cross a continent. She was an adventure. Both [...]

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Bad Driving 101

November 2, 2011 – 6:21 am

In the fall of 1973 my college comrade Paul Deseret and I worked at the Hi-Hat Lounge in Brighton. The pay for busboys wasn’t much, but the girls were young, the drinks were cheap, and we could sell qualludes and mescaline at the bar. Neither of them were the best available in Boston, but we [...]

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