Recent content by Robert Lauriston

Jojo's niece posted the letters Bukowski sent to Jojo on her blog a couple of years ago: http://maybebabybaby.blogspot.com/2009/11/jojo-planteen.html Somebody uploaded a Monique Marquisa de Magdalena video to YouTube today, but who knows how old it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx1JRUyfnrI

I think more people know Jojo / Monique from the Inflatable Boy Clams and 30+ years of SF solo performances than from Bukowski ephemera.

The top photo is Jojo in San Francisco circa 1980, and the bottom one is Monique De Magdalena in SF circa 2006. Definitely the same person, see her comment near the end of this page: http://www.researchpubs.com/news/enews54.php I imagine she's the same person Bukowski wrote to in '76 and '77.

I knew Jojo Planteen in San Francisco the late 70s, and the woman in "Supervan" doesn't look much like her--different nose, mouth, chin--plus that woman looks a few years older (and not just because her mascara got hosed down). Jojo goes by Monique Marquisa De Magdalena these days.