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2018-06-04 18:02:31
I'm A Minor Writer. I'm Okay With That
"There is no shame in being a minor writer. Some of my favorite writers were, in their day, considered minor writers: Nathanael West, Charles Bukowski, Mikhail Lermontov, Blaise Cendrars, Flann O’Brien, and even Gertrude Stein. It is an honorable way to make a living. Certainly I’ve done less damage to the forests of America than […]
2017-03-08 02:23:56
We dropped the flyer for the middle school orchestra concert between the bleachers and left the chicken on the refrigerator
[…] dog before we left and she got it so clean it was dry, it still had some of the bees wax on it I used to condition it, I think…and Dawn and the kids sat at the table stabbing it with their forks, and the girls twirled and recited and reenacted scenes and I just sat off to the side with my beer on my back until it was time for bed, and then read Bukowski, and thought dimly the reason I felt so foul, so deeply upset and irritable was perhaps the fact I hadn’t written in two days, and for that I felt good, it meant I had to.
2015-11-26 21:03:25
Look sharp! Get on it! Don’t stop! This week it’s time to name songs that, whether in title or lyrics, employ the imperative form. Now get started … please! “He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command,” said that silver-tongued back-stabber Niccolò Machiavelli. “Your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century,” added Charles Bukowski. “Do as I say, not as I do,” floats out that ancient phrase possibly from John Heywood’s 1546 A dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue - “It is as folke dooe, and not as folke say.” Or not quoting any manufacturer of training shoes, you might just want to stick to simply “Do it”. Who said that one? Well, he’s a typically understated message from actor Shia LaBeouf: Continue reading...
2015-07-30 15:19:28
[…] We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.” — Charles Bukowski I am back, but, have lost the urge; I think it went down with the rest of the stuff that flushed. Oh well, we’ll finish of with an short old-school pearl, with a few shots at the category of Asininnies we like to call the Dogma Dogs…. Enjoy, ffolkes; someday we won’t have to contend with an entire populace of delusional cretins in order to survive…. Well, we can hope, can’t we?…. “[…] For […]
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