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..garrison gargoyles..buk's face: have read it described as "a bowl of walnuts," "five miles of bad road"... and once i thought the twinkle-eyed satyr in a gargantuan Reuben painting at the Getty must've been Bukowski in another life working as a artist's model posing nude for wine and cheese...

someone in LA reporting on the Bukowski POET ON THE EDGE Exhibt @ the Huntington ..it's a most dignified exhibit, designed gently by bright museum curators w/Linda Bukowski's total approval--a paper plethora homage to Bukowski's indefatigable (even when dying) prolificity, a contemporary...

new Cupcakes Interview QUESTION: "what flavors are your 'cupcakes'?" .. recently i asked Cupcakes (aka SCARLET) a New and Superfluous Interview Question: "What flavors are your 'cupcakes'?" and she generously replied: [I]"...Then: Naughty & Nutty Red Velvet; Carpet Matches the Drapes Grape...

thanks, roni, et al BukCulture luvvers.. ...was thinking abt selling my batch of Buk letters (rec'd 1974-1982) + the original of the portrait Buk did of me in 1975 he named "Men's Lib Poster" (that appears now & then out there in Bukowskilandia)..need the $--also, afraid they'll get dumped when...

...my Cupcakes Interview, some of it, was conducted via email: Questions sent to Cupcakes, then her Response cut&pasted (more questions asked at our personal meeting).. at the end of my first batch i asterisk'd the Doll Question with the apology to her that she might consider comparison of...

i never knew morrison or the doors personally but i did dance live to them the night i auditioned for a go-go grl job at Whisky (knew elmer valentine, a good Bossman, slightly); in the 60s i preferred Soul Music, easier to dance to Otis Redding, Wilson Picket, Aretha Franklin; the Doors too...

trying again, gods are With me...?? ok, i broke thru to the "other side"--the world of buk fans! what luck... this computer stuff reminds me so much of one of those olde twilight zone epis: there's a world out there but you can only access it via your ear pressed against a drinking glass...

hello buk fans... my husband fred voss bought a copy of Linda King's Bukowski in 1996 for $1600--which she delivered personally... why it costs so much is the foundry fee; it's bronze cast from a clay model she designed in 1972... it's beautiful... weighs a ton, it seems, now sits high on my...

Hello this time? If it works... hello... trying again to say Hello to Buk fans... xmas is over, a new year happened and we got a new President... i need a new computer and have not been able to access the BukNet nor this appreciation thread to gab a lot or even jot a hello... Went Went Girl, a...

thanx@thanksgivingtime thank you, all of you, who've tapped me for buddy list... i've lost some of you because i didn't know how to respond--even with excellent guidance by buk.net personally... navigating buk.net is so difficult for me, an utter sputtering technoidiot which i think shd be...

barflyThanksgiving too happy thanks, too, i caught the flu.... just tried to respond to yr barfly message... hope it worked.. i am very stupid w/the computer and navigating thru the choppy seas of buk.net...

As one of Buk's Women (sort of)... .. it was my experience w/Buk that Buk was Chinaski in the flesh--the personna, for sure; the content, Chinaski's es- and sexcapades? much was exaggerated/fictionalized--for entertainment: Buk's and his readers... similar to Mickey Spillane/Mike Hammer... in...

bukowski'sHead one of the lucky owners of linda King's sculpture of Bukowski, i look at Bukowski's head all day long... it's a magnificent piece; a happy buddha face bukowski wears... he and linda were falling madly in love as she made it... my husband Fred Voss bought this from Linda in...

bukowski's "soul expansion" ... Bukowski, when i knew him (1973-1983), wrote me, circa 1981, regarding "soul expansion" (his words regarding Linda Lee's study of buddhism): "I am not one to compete with the eternal wonders of the Universe"... Bukowski was quite self satisfied with his earthly...

descent into the emaelstrom doldrums ...thanks for wondering abt me.. haven't been feeling well, comme habitude... my ill health is progressive and permanent but not terminal and i do have now and then remissions... i inherited All This from my mother... it's boring to explain... i seldom go...