Monthly Archives: November 2023

CBGBs Pinball 1978 VDO

November 27, 2023 – 12:06 pm

Throughout the late 1970s I stood at the front of CBGBs for the Contortions, Damned, and the Voidoids. Afterwards I drank beer and play pinball at the back of the club. I was never friends with the big names. The bartenders were my friends, the doorman with the yellow construction helmet let me in for […]

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KILLING THE RICH

November 27, 2023 – 11:54 am

The Vent de Sol was booked solid. The clientele hailed from the upper echelons of New York’s1%. Table # 4 sitting six people was dominated by Richard Belden. No one in the Madison Avenue bistro had earned more than the 54 year-old investment

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November 26, 1978 East Village – Journal Entry

November 27, 2023 – 10:47 am

I’m completely broke once more after two week’s without work. I suppose this depression about money will be my guiding light for the futre, but I can’t worry about the trivialities about which I can’t do anything. Somehow I have to find a job. THE HUDSON DOCKS NOVEMBER 1978 November night Derelict docks stretch along […]

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The Missing Of Loy Krathong

November 26, 2023 – 11:40 am

Written 2013 The most beautiful holidays in the world are the Hindu Diwali and Thailand’s Loy Krathong. These festivals of light celebrate the full moon night of the twelfth lunar month. I have celebrated Diwali in Lhasa Tibet with the Indian cooks of the Snow Dragon Hotel and Loy Krathong with my wives and children. […]

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NEVER WANT TO GIVE YOU UP by Peter Nolan Smith

November 26, 2023 – 7:57 am

THE GODFATHER 3 was a horrible movie; Andy Garcia, Sofia Coppola, and Al Pacino’s wretched line, “No sooner than I think I’m out, then they pulling me back in. Unfortunately those words held personal resonance in early November of 2007 for like Michael Corleone’s failure to leave the Mafia, I was unable to end my […]

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