Monthly Archives: January 2022

Black Ice

January 29, 2022 – 1:52 am

Last month smug northerners ridiculed the snowbound paralysis of Dallas. ‘Maybe we should airlift Maine drivers down to the South to teach them how to drive in winter conditions,” joked a friend at the 169 Bar in Chinatown.. “My grandfather once said, “There are two seasons in Maine, the season of good sledding and the […]

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FOR THE LOVE OF HOCKEY by Peter Nolan Smith

January 28, 2022 – 7:54 pm

FOR THE LOVE OF HOCKEY are six stories about my love for the fastest game on ice. During the 1980s my aunt from Maine bought season tickets to the Rangers. To her hockey was hockey as long as the Black Bears of U Maine weren’t playing for the Frozen Four, however As longtime Boston Bruins […]

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Willie DeVille 1986

January 26, 2022 – 10:02 pm

One night in 1986 Willie DeVille came to the Royal Lieu with Jorgen Osterloh, Aurora Clemente, and Dean Tavourlos. Willie was with his wife. We knew each other from CBGBs. He gave me a line of smack. Willie was good for that. It was brown. Jorgen said he was going back to his apartment in […]

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Not For Nothing

January 24, 2022 – 5:42 pm

On winter nights as a child in Maine in the 1950s I listened hockey and basketball games on the radio from Boston and the Far North. While I loved the Celtics and Bruins, I cherished even more so the fading in and out of hockey games from the Montreal Forum, for even if I didn’t […]

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JOURNAL ENTRY – JANUARY 21, 1979 – EAST VILLAGE

January 23, 2022 – 8:28 am

Last evening of mishaps, adventure, and parties was marked by a midnight tragedy. Bill Yusk, a Dixie gambler, Doctor Bertoni, a lead anesthesiologist at NYU, and I were speaking to Haoui Montauk, who was working at the door of Rock Lounge located at where Jane Street ran into the Hudson. The three of us were […]

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