Category Archives: Love

Winter’s Rainbow

April 6, 2022 – 8:52 am

My baby brother died on AIDS in 1995. My mother succumbed to cancer in 1996. I mourned their passing with a circumnavigation of the globe. Every holy site on the route was my destination; Luang Prabang, Zhongdian, Lhasa, Benares et al. My soul was washed by the waters of the holiest rivers in the world, […]

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Valentine Day ala Thai

February 14, 2022 – 7:49 am

Valentine’s Day has been globalized around the world, although few people know the exact origins of why we send hearts to loved ones. The tradition has been attributed to a Roman priest Valentine who performed marriages against the wishes of the Roman Emperor. His punishment was execution, but not before supposedly addressing a farewell note […]

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St. Valentine’s Day Massacre / BET ON CRAZY by Peter Nolan Smith

February 14, 2022 – 4:18 am

Every Valentine’s Day diamond dealers and jewelers on 47th Street anticipated a winter spending spree by lovers for their loved ones, but each year of the 21st Century the sales numbers dropped drastically, as the economic downturn cut into everyone’s surplus, but the rich. Valentine afternoon in February 2011 shoppers crammed the chocolatiers along 5th […]

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Loneliness On The Day Of Love

February 14, 2022 – 3:12 am

The snow fell in silence. The clots of flakes feathered sidewalks floes. Snow shovels scrapped on the concrete. I threw out no salt. Drifts collected by the bottom of brownstones. No one came to shovel it away. That was an old man’s job. Mine. Snow loves the cold. I have good gear against winter. I […]

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Banned From The World

February 6, 2022 – 2:00 pm

When I was a young boy, my greatest desire was to travel the world. In the early 1970s I hitchhiked across the USA east to west and north to south. 1978 I arrived in London during the punk era After Viktor Malenski was murdered on West 24th Street, I escaped Reagan’s America to live in […]

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