Category Archives: East Village

Oh No No Sex

May 10, 2012 – 5:45 pm

Witches were fearsome creatures in my youth. These wanton women consorted with Satan and their roaming succubi seduced the souls of pure men. Throughout the 70s and 80s I ran into their decadent descendants finally meeting Elena, a Spanish flamenco dancer. We lived together in my East Village apartment for several months. My bed became [...]

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SONIC REDUCER by the Dead Boys

May 9, 2012 – 8:14 pm

Every Memorial Day Weekend the radio stations spun the top 1000 hits of rock and roll. The #1 song for decades was Zeppelin’s STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN or else the Beatles HEY JUDE. SATISFACTION came close to reaching # 1, but Led Zeppelin’s rip-off of Spirit’s TAURUS has proven too strong to be knocked off the [...]

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VOW OF SILENCE by Peter Nolan Smith

May 2, 2012 – 4:03 pm

Almost everyone in the world has a phone. Cellular service can connect my phone with Antarctica or Greenland. I can call Fenway’s mom in Thailand and Mam will pick up on the other end. Millions of cellular calls and SMS messages crisscross the globe searching billions of destinations. We are so close, yet so far [...]

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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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Klaus Nomi – Lightning Strikes

April 18, 2012 – 11:47 am
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