Tag Archives: frank’s lounge

Billboard’s Top 30 Summer Songs

July 4, 2019 – 7:28 am

Most American radio stations run down the Top 1000 songs of all time during the July 4th Weekend. The playlist pleasantly passes the time on the beach. Sunbathers never notice the burn until their skin is the color of an Easter Ham. Once back in the SUV they inevitably crank up the AC and turn […]

By Peter | Posted in brooklyn, holiday, music | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Play Ball 2010

August 4, 2018 – 7:04 am

The 2010 Baseball Season was opened by President Obama in Washington. He walked onto the field with a red Senators jacket symbolizing his honorary support of the home team. Half way to the mound the President pulled out a black Sox cap which he proudly wore through the ceremony. The crowd booed the show of […]

By Peter | Posted in boston, family, semi-fiction, Sports | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

The Ferocity of the Fat Front

June 20, 2017 – 6:23 pm

Obesity is a human dietary condition, in which over-eating threatens a human with heart disease, type 2 diabetes, the failure to breathe, cancer, and osteoarthritis according to Wikipedia. Obesity is determined by Body Mass Index or BMI = kilograms in weight divided by your height in meters squared. 18.5 is considered underweight 18.5–24.9 is normal […]

By Peter | Posted in america, evil, Health | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

General Fowler’s Statue

March 27, 2017 – 11:27 am

Last weekend an exhibition portraying the possible renovation of General Fowler’s Triangle was presented to the residents of Fort Greene. The proposed alterations included new trees, larger public space, and changing the location of the General’s statue. “I don’t know about that. I like the General just the way he is,” I told one of […]

By Peter | Posted in brooklyn, history | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

THE CALL OF WILD by Peter Nolan Smith

September 27, 2016 – 1:31 pm

My life was once ruled by the night. I haunted concerts, bars, clubs, and parties from dusk to dawn from the 60s into the 90s. My retirement occurred around the turn of the century and the birth of my children completed the process, for I feared the Chris Rock’s curse of being the oldest man […]

By Peter | Posted in 2010s, brooklyn, Drinking, myth | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)