Monthly Archives: September 2014

Screech Beach

September 6, 2014 – 8:15 pm

Back in the 70s this building housed the insane. The wards overlooked the nude beach at Riis Park. I loved lying on the sand and hearing them yell at naked people on Screech Beach. All gone now. The mad and the naked on Screech Beach.

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MENAGE A TROIS A LA THAI by Peter Nolan Smith

September 6, 2014 – 2:15 pm

Western press continually brattles on how Muslim suicide bombers are rewarded for their ultimate sacrifice with seventy-seven virgins, even though virgins are not renown for their sexual prowess and this generous gift for their ultimate sacrifice has seemed more a curse to me, then again most western men fantasize about a dirty weekend in a […]

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Yves Klein’s Leap

September 6, 2014 – 10:17 am

Yves Klein was a pop minimalist genius. In 1960 he staged the photo SAUT DANS LE VIDE or LEAP INTO THE VOID from a rooftop in the Paris suburb of Fontenay-aux-Roses. His friends caught him in a tarp. The photo was then published in a fake newspaper at Paris news kiosks. I love Yves Klein. […]

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Golden Gate Vanishing Act

September 6, 2014 – 10:09 am

It is easy to lose your heart in San Francisco with the little trolley cars climbing to heaven, but last month a younger friend disappeared in the City by the Bay. Upon leaving for a writing sabbatical in the Far West he had asked me to check on his mail. I did so, but failed […]

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Golden Gate Suicide Net Update

September 5, 2014 – 2:19 pm

The Golden Gate Bridge has been a magnet for suicide since its construction with over 2000 fatal leaps having been record since its opening in 1937. Every two weeks someone jumps from the legendary span. Only one person, a woman has jumped twice. She was successful on her second attempt. There has been no safety […]

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