Monthly Archives: July 2013

Tora Tora Shark Tora

July 26, 2013 – 4:05 pm

Last week a teenager tourist was killed by a shark attack in Brazil. The big fish tore apart her left leg and doctors were not able to save the girl, even after amputating her leg. There have been 21 shark attacks in the region since 1991, although the young woman was the first recorded death […]

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NO FOOL LIKE AN OLD FOOL by Peter Nolan Smith

July 24, 2013 – 4:12 pm

WRITTEN 2011 Outside the Pattaya Tai Big C Shopping Center there was a skateboard club. Some Thai kids tested out tricks on rails and ramps. Some were good. I tried a few moves to be surprised by an unintentional wheelie by putting too much weight on my back foot. The Thai kids applauded my move […]

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Detroit Is Not Fucked

July 20, 2013 – 6:46 pm

The GTO was the ultimate Detroit muscle-car. GM had banned sponsored racing, so John deLorean focused on a V8 street monster with a 389 cubic inch displacement to compete with Ford’s Mustang. GM’s production leader saw ‘the Goat’ as a loss and never allowed more than 5000 manufactured per year. Narrow-minded decision such as this […]

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High Heels Hanging On the Wire

July 20, 2013 – 12:01 pm

The other day I was riding my bike through Williamsburg home to Fort Greene. Unlike the other bikers I roll at a slow pace and crossing one intersection I spotted high heels hanging from a power wire. Normally sneakers adorn the electrical lines and many people have tried to divine why. Wikipedia attributed to custom […]

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10 Years After

July 18, 2013 – 8:21 pm

On June 15, 2003 The Observer quoted “a British scientist and biological weapons expert, who has examined the trailers in Iraq.” “They are not mobile germ warfare laboratories. You could not use them for making biological weapons. They do not even look like them. They are exactly what the Iraqis said they were – facilities […]

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