Monthly Archives: July 2016

The Flesh Is Weak

July 13, 2016 – 8:31 pm

Spike was a Tasmanian demolition mining expert. Three months of the year the stubby-legged gremlin put down the nitro, TNT, and cordite for a drinking holiday in Pattaya. Mining by explosion was a rough line of work and Spike’s charms were few to the eye. Short, loud, brash, and drunk fit a polite description of […]

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Poor Mickey

July 13, 2016 – 2:56 pm

Milleniums and Pokemon fans of all ages are going crazy about the new Pokemon GO game. The addictive throw-back to the 00s has finger-twitchers fluttering their thumbs over cellphones like bees over the flowers of Elysium. My flip-phone doesn’t allow access. But I still like Mickey Mouse. He has no games. No movies. Only the […]

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Mr. Wonderful And Race

July 12, 2016 – 12:47 pm

The only way to cure racism is love. And lots of it. Sammie Davis Jr. knew the antidote and he lived in lynching days. Marilyn Monroe was his friend and acted as a beard for his relationship with Kim Novak. Their affair almost got him killed by the orders of Herbert Cohn, a gangster Hollywood […]

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SNOW BUNNY by Peter Nolan Smith

July 12, 2016 – 7:39 am

This morning the snow fell in globs on 47th Street. A younger female co-worker was leaving early for the day. Hlove and I were staying late to inventory diamond goods for the upcoming Antique Show in Palm Beach. I helped Laani with her sheepskin coat and she said, “I like working with you, but you’re […]

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Before Big Papi

July 11, 2016 – 7:50 pm

Before he was Big Papi, he played for the Appleton Rattlers in the A League. Under the name David Arias. Twenty years ago. The Seattle Mariners went on a barnstorming tour of the minors. Their game in Appleton was rained out, but the Mariners’ catcher suggested a home run derby to make up the cancellation […]

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