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DANCE DANCE DANCE by Peter Nolan Smith

August 22, 2012 – 2:44 pm

After sunset AK, Pam, Helen, Flo, Rockford, and I ate a vegetarian dinner with Farmer Bob. The young Californian tended to the flower plantation surrounding the bungalow. We drank five bottles of cheap wine and smoked his homegrown pot. Farmer Bob believed in nature’s way. The seven of us danced to the music on the […]

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Premature Explosion ala the 4th

July 5, 2012 – 10:56 pm

The disaster of the Space Shuttle Challenger was witnessed by millions of Americans in horror. Ronald Reagan seemed at first perplexed by the booster rockets’ explosion, then realized the Shuttle and all its crew were lost in the fiery conflagration. I have long blamed that President and his administration for forcing NASA to launch in […]

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Buff Naked At Black’s Beach

May 9, 2012 – 7:28 pm

In the summer of 1974 I visited Black’s Beach in San Diego, which was the most popular nude beach in the United States. While nudity remains against the law in the city of San Diego, the Torrey Pines State Park has allowed ‘clothing optional’ for sun-worshippers from the Torrey Pines Gliderport north to the steel […]

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BLACK’S BEACH BLUFF by Peter Nolan Smith

May 9, 2012 – 4:03 pm

The next morning I was awoken by the drifting whiff of brewing coffee. I wiggled out of my sleeping bag to pull the bathrobe around my body. The floor of the porch was chilled my bare feet. The summer days started out cold in Southern California. The flower fields around the bungalow were obscured by […]

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