Tag Archives: pool

Good at Something – 2024

January 10, 2025 – 12:50 pm

A proficiency in billiards is the sign of a misspent youth. – attributed to Herbert Spencer, English philosopher after losing 50-0 to a pool shark. Back room at the 169 Bar 2024 I can hold my own only because I’m lucky with the eight-ball.

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LOST BY THE EIGHT BALL by Peter Nolan Smith

January 10, 2025 – 4:05 am

From 2013 None of the cops from the 9th Precinct were happy about the closing of the basement bar next to their station house in the summer of 1980. Even fewer were excited by its re-opening as a French bistro. Evelyn’s Bistro was another sign that the East Village was giving way to a new […]

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A Little Brando Maybe

January 13, 2024 – 4:14 am

From 2012 Last week I was playing pool at the Abbey. Maz was in town from Alaska. THe jewelry salesman was leaving for the islands on Wednesday. His time in the Far North had not effected his hand and eye coordination and the bald-headed genji ruled the table for several games. I lost to him […]

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Greatest of the Great

September 2, 2015 – 4:02 pm

On my birthday several friends and I were having a conversation about the greatest athlete of our lifetime at Frank’s Lounge. We were all in our 50s. Larry had seen Ali, Homer claimed for Magic Johnson, AP proposed Andre the Giant, then I said, “Evel Knievel.” “No way.” Larry shook his head. AP and Homer […]

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