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Appalling in a bad way...They got hammered pretty good for this one...

I have not seen the first three of these photos before; the next three I have seen, but wonder about the last one. Was this discussed on the forum before? I seem to recall it was...I wonder about the details of the photo session...According to the web, these are all by Abe Frajndlich.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-isla-vista-tragedy-elliot-rodger-charles-bukowski-20140527-story.html Odd, but I thought of Buk too after hearing the news....I wonder if this guy haunts Bukowski.net. How else could he know there are several versions of a poem? [Three minutes...

Karen Finley has a story here--"An Affair to Remember"--- which also appears in Drinking with Bukowski. She details a relationship with Buk, a trip to St. Barts (!), Richard Brautigan, etc. Just wondering if anyone knows anything about Finley/Buk--can't find any information about it online or...

In working with the prose, I am coming across more and more examples of the following: the first is original LAFP "Notes" and version in South of No North as "Hit Man". Here the evidence is incontrovertible: no way Buk revised these AFTER they appeared in the Freep. Note the changes in word...

Just learned that "Animal Crackers in My Soup" is a Shirley Temple song, which I am sure everyone else in the world knew already. I had no idea. I grew up watching her movies...I guess Buk has lots of Thirties/Depression references...more than I realized! Here she is, in all her adorable...

Another tough one, I believe not yet posted...

A bit late for Valentine's Day, but just got this and don't think it's been posted previously.

Checked to see if this has been brought up here, but was unable to find anything. The song "In Hiding" has the lyrics "I swallow my words to keep from lying/I swallow my face just to keep from biting/I swallowed my breath and went deep I was diving, diving/I surfaced when all of my being was...

Just found this online--short but interesting. http://huntingtonblogs.org/2013/06/we-have-them-for-the-articles/

Ol' Scott Harrison just posted this one: was in Notes of a Dirty Old Man column.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that there was a Bukowski poem about going out to dinner--probably with Sean Penn and Madonna--and B wrote an unhappy poem complaining that they were millionaires but he was expected to pick up the tab. After he wrote it, he decided not to publish it. Does...

I just heard about a film "Beautiful Creatures" which apparently features Bukowski's poetry, as well as Miller, Salinger, Vonnegut, etc. The title is taken from a Bukowski poem. Some sort of Gothic, Southern, "Twilight" movie? Anybody seen it?

This poem also appeared in the LAFP in the "Dirty Old Man" series.

The Germans as usual do it right: cover of Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook due out from Fischer Verlag this November.

A very beautiful poem I think, and "something happened to it" after 1974 publication in Peckerwood. Not sure if I posted this in the right place. Peckerwood version: Bone Palace Ballet version:

"The Simplicity of Everything", Border Vol 1, no. 1 Jan. 1965; "I Keep Wanting to See About Everything But I Can't Get Started", Border Vol. 1, no. 2, April 1965. [Apologies for poor quality of this one]