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Same here. Gmail is a nice, efficient product. I would also recommend Google's free photo handling program called Picasa: http://picasa.google.com/. Truely user friendly.

Nice touch MJP, tell me: is there any way of linking this new address to an already existing gmail account? You know, like using the Bukowski.net one as an alias? One thing: gmail (Google) reserves the right to access all stored messages on its site for commercial purposes (surveys etc.). Its...

Maybe you should rename the link to "poem database"?

Reminds me of a quote from Leonard Cohen's latest book. I just read it in the paper a couple of hours ago... My page too white My ink too thin The day wouldn't notice What the night penciled in And who is the publisher?... you guessed it... Ecco Read more here...

Isn't Factotum supposed to be from the period when he printed all his manuscripts? IS there a typer in the book?:rolleyes:

What is a fair price for a signed & numbered edition of AT TERROR STREET AND AGONY WAY? Seems an acquaintance of of a friend has a copy he is willing to sell. Says he bought three signed & numbered books in the university bookshop for normal price in the 70's here in Norway. Did these editions...

Spooky... Did you read the Buk-letter on Ebay where he says "It all comes to mathematics and I'm Mr. Zero"? Funny how things connect sometimes. Spooky! : https://bukowskiforum.com/showthread.php?p=6058#post6058

I seem to remember someone offering me a bootleg of the tapes that was 15 hours long, the four-hour version being just the edited highlights that Schroeder made for French TV. Is my memory/imagination playing tricks on me again... or are there 11 hours of "lowlights" remaining in Schroeder's...

Not just writers either. Haven't you ever told someone a story or anecdote and noticed that "what I just said was a bit more colorfully described than it actually happened?" I can even remember times when I've mixed two different stories into one, without thinking, especially after a couple of...

What about the title "Poems and Doodles"...:D

Hmmmm, the doodles are a non-verbal/visual way of communicating, whereas Buk's poetry is closer to spoken word/vernacular. So maybe the doodles say things that the words don't/can't... Aren't most of the doodles, how shall I put it, more "carefree", less "antagonistic" or something like that...

Big screen first: I recommend seeing Factotum on as big a screen as possible first time around. It has a lot of visual things going for it, and these just don't transfer well to the tube. (Example: the scene where Chinaski reads part of "a poem is a city".) I saw it twice large scale, and liked...

Do you mean to say there was something he didn't tell us???:D

Sorry, I haven't read the Tao. What aspect of it strikes similarities for you? On the other hand I've always appreciated Buk's philosophical bent. Like he says in his letters he's read Plato, Kant, Hegel, Schope and all that bunch of guys. Though he criticizes them for "tilting silver water", he...

Yeah, and just like Kafka (here in Europe at least) his name is turning into an adjective in the language. Just do a search for the word "bukowskian" on the net and you'll see what I mean. Very few authors have this happen to their name. Can only think of Kafka & Buk just now... any others?

The important thing is the writing, not Buk's complex/difficult/touchy/sensitive/strong or whatever you wanna call his personality. I know plenty of "difficult" ppl who can't write. None of these cheap ramblings take the trouble of looking at the poems thy call mediocre. That takes insight and...

Ahhhhh! I know the feeling...

Sticky? Please enlighten me!:confused:

Almost sounds like a remake of the French Apostrophe episode - without the Buk stumbling out disgusted & drunk. By the way: You live a mile from the Huntington? Sounds like a pretty posh neighbourhood! ;) (Got a new car yet? Loved your story about public transport on smognet. Imagine a...

Celebrating Bukowski: I see from the press release (http://www.huntington.org/Information/news/Bukowski.pdf) that an event called "Celebrating Bukowski" will be held at the Huntington on September 20th. Any of you locals plan on going? How about taking some pics for the forum while you're at it? :)

Cirerita: After you posted "Soft and fat like summer roses", from 1946 (https://bukowskiforum.com/showthread.php?t=69) I'm not so sure you can use a "time line" for sorting the poems. Seems like he had the later style down from the beginning! Maybe you should make a poll on favorite TYPES of...

Thanks again C. Good work. It works like a charm. I bet the French producers regret they avoided filming Buk as much as they did... And I just wanted to post something to get the thread with the N-word off the first Forum-page. ;)

Not quite. For example: most Roman sculptures were made for propaganda purposes. Thus most sculptures of Cesar were not made to resemble him but to impress the members of the empire living far away. Art - at least sculpturing - was the propaganda of the day. Like the Bible says: "there's...

Good one MJ. To the point as always. I just wanted to pinprick some of the posters trying to write off Buk's dark subjects as the insecure musings of a high school adolescent wanting to "be different", and who really didn't understand what he was doing. There's a lot more to it than that...

Has anybody mentioned that Buk says he admires Adolf Hitler in chapter 16 of the Bukowski Tapes: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5953823087198627125&q=bukowski+tapes ;)