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THE ONLY YEH YEH GIRL By Peter Nolan Smith

May 12, 2013 – 11:47 am

TV, radio, and movies transported the stars of the 1960s to my three red-light suburb south of Boston. Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and Buddy Holly were worshipped as dead gods, but my generation’s focus was dedicated to the living as we hit our teens. Bob Dylan’s BLOWING IN THE WIND knocked Elvis off his throne [...]

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Drunk in Moscow, Not Idaho

April 28, 2013 – 12:23 pm

In 1994 I was traveling from Malaysia to Paris on Aeroflot. Kuala Lumpur-Karachi-Dubai-Moscow-Paris. The flight time to Moscow totaled about 24 hours. None of them were comfortable in the flimsy chairs of the Soviet era jetliner. Disembarking at Moscow, I discovered that my connecting flight to Charles De Gaulle was delayed until the next morning. [...]

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The Ugliest Man In Paris

April 7, 2013 – 4:18 pm

Alain Pacadis led the gay revolution in Paris with friends Marie France and Paquita Paquin. He wrote for various newspapers and magazines in the French capitol. I met him at the Bains-Douches, where I was working as the physionomiste. Friends joked that the unwashed journalist was the ugliest man on Earth, although Setge Gainsbourg argued [...]

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GHOUL OF PARIS by Peter Nolan Smith

April 6, 2013 – 3:56 pm

The 1980s are thirty years in the past. Few people remember that era of errors and when I tell stories, the listeners suspect that I’m lying about jumping off cliffs at the Quincy Quarries or nearly making love with Darryl Hannah in Jamaica or even watching bears eat garbage at a dump in Maine. I [...]

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DONT FEED THE BEARS by Peter Nolan Smith

April 2, 2013 – 7:20 pm

My second youngest sister has frequently called me a liar. In some ways Pam hasn’t been not wrong, for my perception of reality and remembrance of the past differs from that of family and friends. Several years ago I headed up to Maine for my younger sister’s birthday. Mentioning a woman’s age was taboo, but [...]

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