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The Reach Of Jocko

June 25, 2012 – 8:11 pm

Michael Jackson left Neverland DOA. Millions of THRILLER fans around the globe mourned his passing with flowers deposited before US embassies. My younger friends in New York reported that on the night of his death club-goers danced to a frenzied and endless cascade of Michael Jackson hits from the Motown years on into the 21st [...]

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GHOST OF THE STUMP by Peter Nolan Smith

June 11, 2012 – 5:55 pm

In the early 90s diamonds were priced to the advantage of the dealers on 47th Street. 50% profit was normal for most stones and my boss Manny gave his sales staff commission based on 5% of the gross. In February of 1991 I had the luck to hook a middle-aged woman looking to buy a [...]

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THE TASTE OF PIG by Peter Nolan Smith

June 4, 2012 – 5:39 pm

My great-grandaunt Bert circumnavigated the world on her father’s clipper ship in the 1870s. National Geographic wrote a story about her childhood travels and at the age of 101 she told me about the temples of Siam and the black-toothed betel-nut chewers of Indonesia. While my grand-aunt Marion brought me a statue of a bare-breasted [...]

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Dog Yum-Yum

November 4, 2011 – 4:35 am

The islands of Ternate and Tidore were the destination of European explorers seeking to circumvent the Ottoman Empire’s monopoly on the spice trade. Only one ship from Magellan’s fleet returned from their historic voyage around the world and the spices purchased on these islands paid off the cost of the trip and made the investors [...]

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SLICED BREAD by Peter Nolan Smith

January 25, 2011 – 12:55 am

Sliced bread was invented in 1923 by a Davenport, Iowa inventor and the phrase ‘the greatest thing since sliced bread’ entered American legend shortly thereafter. Sliced bread was banned for wartime consumption in 1943, proving even the greatest thing in the world isn’t above the law in the USA. The ban was quickly rescinded by [...]

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