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Jan.03.2013
Paco Pineiro : Life, Love & Terrorism
Life, Love & Terrorism
This is a story of and for our present time, straight out of our evening newscasts. Its the story of an otherwise successful American man in his thirties, struggling to recover from a painful breakup with the woman of his...
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Mar.05.2011
I first arrived in London at about eight thirty on a winter morning, extremely tired after a frantic day of packing everything I might need for a long journey followed by a subsequent celebration with friends and relatives at one of San Francisco’s famed Fisherman’s Wharf restaurants. Hours...
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Oct.12.2010
10/10/10 A perfect afternoon in San Francisco--bathed in sun and cooled by a refreshing off-shore breeze that filtered in through the remnants of fog across our Golden Gate, we sat on the lush green meadow below Ghirardelli Square, near the Dolphin Club, surrounded by a pleasant crowd of...
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Oct.07.2010
A Travel Tip© by Paco Piñeiro
It was a holiday weekend and the end of summer vacation throughout Europe, so I, and several thousand others, was stuck in Heathrow airport for hours. Finally BOAC found...
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Aug.28.2010
The Blame Game
An archaeological dig is ongoing in Philadelphia, carefully disinterring the bones of 57 Irish Immigrants who were brought to this country in June of 1832 and were found dead, every one of them, within 6 weeks, and dumped into a mass grave that has remained...
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Nov.28.2009
It was a rainy night. The water had been tapping at my window for hours while I wrote. Across the street, the BART trains would whoosh by periodically, leaving clouds of spray that glowed golden as they dissipated past the street lights below. I walked out on to the deck to stretch my muscles...
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Jun.16.2009
Enlightened Sage Osama Bin Laden(Or present occupant)Cave 27Southern Pakistan June 16, 2009Dear and Almighty Leader, Osama Bin Laden: I am writing to you to apologize for my cowardice. You will no doubt remember me as the only one of your Spring Class of ’...
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Jun.08.2009
In the span of two or three hours on the radio this morning I caught two discussions regarding the direction of our lives, leaving me with an unsettling feeling. The first program was about the new social phenomenon called ‘hooking up’. Several college age young ladies expressed similiar views:...
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Jun.04.2009
It was still morning, a fact hidden by the overcast skies, and my mood was overcast as well. I'd just emerged from the auto parts store without finding what I sought, though I can't recall now what that might have been. My mind was still mulling over the fact that a few hours earlier, on a...
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Don't look back, 'cause someone might be gaining on you.”
—The great baseball pitcher, Satchel Page. (& racing motto).
About Frank
I'm a novelist and filmmaker, born in a beautiful colonial town in the mountains of Southern Mexico and raised there and in California's Bay Area. I interrupted my college studies by becoming a racing driver in Europe for a couple of years and a writer to...
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Frank’s Favorite Books
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love In The Time Of Cholera, War and Peace, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Don Quixote De La Mancha, Pickwick Papers,...