Recent content by kassandra

I probably won't get it, but I've thought of getting a bluebird on my shoulder. I wouldn't have any words...I just don't like the idea of literary tattoos; the main point of a tattoo is aestheticism, in my opinion.

He really was beautiful. Ugly, sure...but it was his "style of beauty."

Exactly. It's good to see a man who goes for what he wants politely. And how!

It's short stories and poems, of course, but I began two years ago with Septuagenarian Stew (picked it up off a shelf at Borders at random) and ended up working my way backward (unknowingly). I wouldn't recommend it, but it was interesting getting to know Buk from his old age to his youth...as...

Has anyone else stumbled upon this driveling bit by miss Miriam Parker? It's funny to hear the opinions of various lit majors on Bukowski. Especially female ones. http://www.hirechrisladd.com/toner/issue4/parker_bukowski.html "Bukowski is a pretty good writer." Oh, really? Well, I'm glad you...

There was a bluebird in his heart that wanted to get out.

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...

Bukowski would have hated every one of you bastards. Look at you. Acting like lit snobs, saying that some people just "don't get it" (as if Bukowski's aim was to be clandestine), and being insipid fanboys. He probably would have stopped writing if he'd known that people would treat his work so...