Category Archives: history

GOLD LAME BLACKOUT by Peter Nolan Smith

September 2, 2010 – 7:17 am

Fiorucci was the style center for the disco world circa 1977. The windows boasted the latest fashion from Italy. Wearing them guaranteed almost immediate entrance into Studio 54 or any other disco of that era. Joey Arias sold clothing and the rest of the employees haunted the night like ghost panthers. They only went home [...]

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The Past Refound

August 31, 2010 – 6:57 am

My possessions are scattered across two houses in Thailand, a mountaintop cabin north of Santa Cruz, two farms in upstate New York, my apartment in Fort Greene, and my sister’s house outside of Boston, however I was surprised this weekend to hear my host Billy O say at his Easthampton house, “I have several boxes [...]

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Yesterday Gone Tomorrow

August 23, 2010 – 9:29 pm

My friends left Raspberry Island off Acadia in Maine this past Saturday afternoon. Eight hours to Millbrook, New York. A big delay at the Maine Turnpike toll booth. My Uncle Russ said the same thing, only as a true Maine soul he knows the back route across the river from Portsmouth to Maine. “You know [...]

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The Religious Right Are Assholes Too

August 23, 2010 – 8:38 pm

Could Jesus finally come and take away these buzzkills?

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The 10,000

August 20, 2010 – 6:45 pm

US Troops in Iraq are down 50,000. President Obama has asked its commanders to ready the final brigades for complete withdrawal in 2011. General Petraus has questioned the timetable, but the American public has rejected the ‘you broke it, you bought it’ antique shop rule. The time to say ‘Ada’tu tareeqi!’ or I’m lost has [...]

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