I suppose it's only polite to say hello to you all. I'm a big Bukowski fan having read the novels, many of the short stories and a bit of poetry too. I'm more into prose than poetry though, if truth be told. Always looking for new things to read in a similar vein. I've read both the Fante's, Knut Hamsun's 'Hunger', Hemingway and stuff like that. I like a good laugh as well and, being English, I do do irony :p