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Old Men Love to Rock Pattaya

April 17, 2024 – 8:48 pm

Five years ago I had been on Pattaya’s notorious Soi 6 in the Woo Woo Bar listening to Jefferson’s Airplane’s SOMEBODY TO LOVE. The trio of sub-20 Thai girls had invited me to visit an upstairs short-time room. “You sexy man. How old you. 40?” Even through beer goggles my mirror doesn’t lie more than […]

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A HERO OF THE ROAD by Peter Nolan Smith

March 12, 2024 – 3:52 am

A HERO OF THE ROAD by Peter Nolan Smith Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it. – Evel Knieval MANGOZEEN BOOKS 2022 CHAPTER 1 A lice infestation swept through southern Maine in the winter of 1958 and every school district mandated crew cuts for all the boys without […]

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The 420 Bus to Hollywood

March 6, 2024 – 5:01 am

In the late spring of 1995 I lived with Scottie Taylor in a North Hollywood pool house. The homeowner ran a strip club off West Pico Boulevard. Dennis’ dancers sunbathed nude in the mornings. They were Jesus freaks and read the Bible like a choir of fallen angels. Scottie and I were sinners in their […]

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June 29, 1995 – Los Angeles – Journal Entry

August 8, 2023 – 10:21 am

Only four more days until I leave Los Angeles. I made no friends. No one told a joke or a story. I’m more than ready to leave. I came with nothing. I leave with nothing. Scottie and I remain friends and I do withJoel Bernard.. Time to go. The tempeeature is rising and the cloudless […]

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A HERO OF THE ROAD BY PETER NOLAN SMITH — ON SALE

January 7, 2023 – 6:01 pm

A HERO OF THE ROAD By Peter Nolan Smith Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it. – Evel Knevel MANGOZEEN BOOKS 2023 In 1986 Hugh Mackie and Dmitri Turin opened the Sixth Street Specials, specializing in the repair of Triumph, Nortons, Royal Enfields, and various other English motorcycles. […]

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