Monthly Archives: June 2014

Pattaya Walking Street 1987

June 21, 2014 – 8:21 pm

I wish I had a time machine to go back to 1987. I was living in New York doing blow. I can’t even remember if I was working. Walking Street would have been so much fun. The one-way ticket to Thailand couldn’t have cost more than $600, but I got it together by 1990. I […]

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The Longest Day Of The Year

June 21, 2014 – 7:08 pm

37,000 people gathered at Stonehenge to celebrate the dawn of the longest day of the year. Police arrested a number of people for reefer, which the BBC referred to as ‘drugs’. I stood on my roof at dusk. Naked to the sun. No one else joined me, which is a good thing. Getting arrested for […]

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DREAMS OF TAYLOR by Peter Nolan Smith

June 21, 2014 – 10:30 am

The term ‘generation gap’ was coined in the tumultuous post-WWII years, as the focus of the American media swung from the conquerors of the Axis Powers to their spawn, the Baby Boomers. Bing Crosby gave way to Elvis and the King was deposed by the Beatles, as each succeeding wave of teenagers attempted to assassinate […]

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Dreams of Sex

June 21, 2014 – 10:16 am

Death and Sex are the two prime drives of life according to Freudians. At my age death seemed closer than sex, although later next month I’ll be flying west to the East . My wife will meet me at Bangkok airport with my son Fenway. I’ll give him a big kiss and her a hug. […]

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Dreams of Fast Cars

June 21, 2014 – 7:58 am

I am planning a trip to Thailand. My English friends have called with a request to break the JFK-Bangkok flight with a JFK-Heathrow landing. I love them all, but unfortunately for the Limeys I missed my children too much to deviate from my flight plans, although last night a dream transported my unconsciousness wish to […]

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