Monthly Archives: April 2022

Paris In The Springtime

April 17, 2022 – 12:41 am

In 1982 I spent my first spring in Paris. I fell in love that season. Not with a woman, but a city. The Seine at dawn. Le Louvre. Pigalle. Croissants and crepes. My friends. And I still love Paris Pour toujours.

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Aborted Concorde Landing

April 12, 2022 – 7:43 pm

My apartment on East 10th Street was a good 45 minute drive from JFK airport. Maybe 12 miles as the crow flies from point A to point B. My building took its time waking up in the morning. The residents worked late and partied till dawn. Not everyone in New York were so dedicated to […]

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The # Of Us

April 12, 2022 – 11:10 am

Last week I ended my family holiday in Sri racha and flew east from Bangkok through Inchon to JFK on a mixed crew from several nations. The Airbus A 380 was the biggest passenger aircraft in the commercial fleets, but we were on a Boeing 777. When I asked the stewardess about the seating, she […]

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TWA Terminal Redux

April 12, 2022 – 10:58 am

The TWA Terminal was opened in 1962 at Idlewild International Airport. Eero Saarinen designed the structure terminal to reveal the beauty of thin-shell construction of a concrete shell elegantly supported by legs diminishing at the corners. Saarinen died in 1962, but his wife honored his dream as an ode to the modern world. The sparse […]

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WHY I MISS JUNKIES by Peter Nolan Smith

April 11, 2022 – 3:48 am

Most New Yorkers depend on air-conditioning during the summer heat waves, however AC always felt to me, as if a dirty old man from the Arctic was breathing down my neck and that dirty old man wasn’t Santa Claus. Truthfully after so many years in Southeast Asia I liked the heat and any temperature under […]

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