Celebrating Bukowski at the Huntington

[mjp]

judging from the numerous bald(ing) heads, I would say that most people were 45 or more ;)

I'd say 75% of the people there were in their 40's or older, some were very old, but there was also a good number of younger types there. A very mixed crowd.

 

[Bukfan]

http://tribes.tribe.net/bukowski/thread/d1a3cf9d-6129-479d-b973-eac4259c3af7

Here's an article on the Huntington donation I found...
And here's a short radio program on the same topic from California Report Magazine.
- Scroll down a bit and you will find the Huntington broadcast...

http://www.californiareport.org/domains/californiareport/archive.jsp?date=20060618

 

[bongobill]

reiteration of the topic as a year end summary mostly mentioned at the bottom of the page

http://www.calendarlive.com/galleri...f24dec24,0,7098824.story?coll=cl-lat-homepage

 

[hank solo]

Here's a poem written by Neeli Cherkovski about that night at the Huntington Library.

BUKOWSKI MAKES THE HUNTINGTON

 

[mjp]

yr.yr.yr.yr.yr. - who can read that shit?

I am distracted by the pretense.

 

[jordan]

totally

would it make the poem any worse to type out "your"? i hate that shit. that and unnecessary adjectives.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

I got sleepy.
but he got to hang out with Bukowski for a time, so I guess he wins.

 

[roni]

yr.yr.yr.yr.yr. - who can read that shit?
I am distracted by the pretense.

it's totally pretense in literature.

but kids use these things a lot in their emails, blogs and SMS nowadays. the daughter of my last girlfriend even shortens whole sentences down to single letters. (like "hdgdl" means "hab dich ganz doll lieb" = "love you a lot." etc.) it's the newspeak of the computer&cellphone-age.