Category Archives: 90s

VOW OF SILENCE by Peter Nolan Smith

July 30, 2023 – 5:48 am

Almost everyone in the world has a phone. Cellular service instantly connects New York with Antarctica or Greenland. I call my son Fenway’s mom and Mam will pick up in Thailand. Every minute millions of cellular calls and SMS messages crisscross the globe searching billions of destinations. We are so close, yet so far away […]

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Bingin Beach Bali 1994

July 22, 2023 – 3:34 pm

Bingin Beach 1994 Eternal overhead left Over an inches deep puddle o’er the reef. Indian Ocean RW next to me A big wave coming I Pearl sliding down the face into the turmoil of a close-out. Surface The swell thickened and monsterifized Double over head. I paddle for life I make two shoulders I almost […]

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Drunk in Moscow, Not Idaho

July 13, 2023 – 1:23 am

In 1994 I traveled from Malaysia to Paris on Aeroflot. The Kuala Lumpur-Karachi-Dubai-Moscow-Paris flight time to Moscow totaled about 24 hours. None of them were comfortable in the flimsy chairs of the Soviet era jetliner. Disembarking at Moscow, I discovered that my connecting flight to Charles De Gaulle was delayed until the next morning. A […]

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VICTORY AT ALL COSTS by Peter Nolan Smith

July 1, 2023 – 11:20 am

In November of 2010 the GOP and its Tea Party constituents swept the Democrats from the House of Representatives in the biggest shift of power of the 21st Century and this morning I was greeted at work by the security guard, Andy, who boasted, “We had a revolution last night.” “At least it was non-violent,” […]

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30,000 Feet over Burma – May 5, 1990 – Journal Entry

May 24, 2023 – 9:10 pm

A taxi ride from the Malaysia Hotel to the Bangkok Airport. I know I want to live in Thailand or at least stay here next winter into the summer. I am done with New York, although that city is not done with me. I spoke with Rick Temerian on the Direct USA Phone> We made […]

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