I agree that spinach is not so good.
In Roniland they only have "Rauchende Colte",
When was that again on ard, zdf or wdr, late sixties?
This is my first time reading Bukowski!!
this is a longer story and more or less starts with a letter by Bukowski to Carl Weissner ... Maybe the mods would be so kind to find that thread and link to it?
One little forum thing there, pardner - When you want to reply to the last comment in a thread, just type in the box, don't click "Reply." There's no need to quote the post right before yours. Thank you for your kind indulgence.I have lots to learn.
[...] I guess John Martin just kind of went crazy. I think it was a pretty shameful thing to do--work in his 'writing', I mean. I guess we all go crazy now and then. Anyhow, the 2nd printing will read better. I guess when people compare the 2 editions they'll never know the real story. They will be more apt to think that I went addled with senility and somebody else went ahead and made the changes for me. It's pretty tough to take because I don't mind being criticized for my own writing but to be laid open for somebody else's isn't so good. Anyhow, I will have to keep a closer watch on John in future work of mine. I doubt that he will fuck me up again. Sometimes I get rather sickened by some of Martin's acts and methods. I wish you were my god damned editor, but thank the gods at least that I have you for a translator, agent and friend. (oh yeah, John actually said, "Sometimes the typist gets bored and throws in something." Wonder if Faulkner and J. Joyce were bothered with that?) [...]
I'm no fan of Martin, but from what I understand, the Blowing My Hero episode didn't exactly go down as you might have heard it. In other words, he didn't really threaten her, and in fact he didn't even tell her she couldn't sell the existing copies.Speaking of Martin, The way he treated Amber O'Neill and her Buk memoir, "Blowing My Hero", have always bothered me.
Does anyone know if the musician mentioned in the book several times is based off of anyone?
My insult was hurled directly at the beerbelly666's of this forum (those who have only read a few of his novels and seem not to grasp Buk's character whatsoever), though mjp is behaving rather badly in this thread it seems ;). 'Fanboys' is an appropriate term for anyone resembling the boys in Women who wanted to "reward" buk with a sixpack. Bukowski constantly complained of people talking about writing--particularly his writing--so my comments were neither unwarrented nor pretentious in light of comments like "you just don't GET it, man." Bukowski was straightforward for a reason.