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Hand hoe-ing weeds growing in an onion crop in lines of 150 yards is starting to bother me a little.

Bill, thanks for those cards you sent, got them yesterday. I particularly like the Greetings from New Hampshire one. Tim

Bukowski once described himself as an ugly old troll. I have a signed book right here to that effect as it happens.

so long as almost nobody gets it, that's good enough for me.

Hindinwood, Well, alright, it is part of the city of LA. And I would be the first one to erect a monument to Hank somewhere there. But what about Raymond Chandler ? Does he not get a mention ? The Irish writers residences were knocked down you know. I tried to find Sean O'Caseys and it was...

Seriously now. He's 20 years old & probably never read a book in his life. He'll have a lot of time on his hands & there's only so many motor-cycle magazines that his father can send him. I really want to mail him something to kill the time. I suppose I'm asking a lot from a bunch of...

John Howard is a big fan of "Ask The Dust" apparently. It could be his downfall.

still making a clown of yourself I see. buffoonering your way around your own personal domain & removing anything that you don't think fit to print. I tried to warn them, but it was no go.

It's hugely embarrassing to think that the readers of somebody's prose would imagine that the place where they wrote it was in some way sacred. Eccles Street in Dublin is long gone...

"Ask The Dust" is a book that nobody would have read if it weren't for Hank. Dan Fante is alive & well and writing the kind of thing that Dan Fante writes.

John Fante would be the only writer straight from Bukowski. And through John Fante his son Dan.

baisez-vous, monsieur o'shea.

You never see Bruce Wayne and Batman in the same place at the same time. Remarkable, but true :) MJP, I accept your apology, temporary though it might be. You have been most gracious. and quite amusing too, which wasn't a quality that I thought I would ever grant you. let me know...

I'll try to walk across the Habur bridge :)

Gerard, You are not who you think you are. But it was a good try nonetheless.