Monthly Archives: July 2016

I LOVE BRIGITTE: a collection of short stories by Peter Nolan Smith

July 21, 2016 – 9:22 am

The Cote d’Azur stretching along the Mediterranean from Ventimiglia to St. Tropez has been populated since before the Bronze Age, but the French actress Brigitte Bardot renewed interest in the Riviera with her debut appearance as a sultry teenager in the 1956 film ET DIEU…CREA LA FEMME. That summer the blonde sensation adorned every magazine […]

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Bad Pigeons At The Plaza

July 16, 2016 – 10:08 am

The park before the Plaza Hotel in New York has a fountain bordered by leafy shade trees. Most people avoid sitting on the stone ledges or benches, since thousands of pigeon rest on the branches and thousands of them defecate every day. These two women ignore the danger to eat ice cream out of the […]

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Speedos pour Le Cote d’Azur

July 15, 2016 – 11:26 am

I love the South of France. Women go topless and no one really gawks at them. The food is sublime and the Mediterranean changes color throughout the day and night. Pure paradise, except during ‘le Grand Depart’, when tens of millions of French and Germans and Scandinavians and Brits pile into their cars for a […]

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Hangover Ratings

July 14, 2016 – 11:06 am

Bastille Day is a French drinking holiday. The French word for hang-over is ‘gueule de bois’. In Thai it is ‘hang’. If I spoke to Caesar, I’d say that I was ‘crapula’ which is Latin for fucked up the day after, but no one put it better than Kingsley Amis, who once said, “I had […]

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La Marseillaise CASABLANCA

July 14, 2016 – 2:14 am
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