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Well, d gray, I wasn't necessarily singling you out. I just meant anyone bashing on the Cy Twombly art fetching a lot of money. I don't see anything wrong with it.

It's too bad that some of you guys find Cy Twombly's art "shit." So other artists that get millions of dollars are more "deserving" because of the work? It's almost never about the work (it's about the name), and because different strokes for different folks. The sales price does not determine...

Someone can feel both loss and gain. It's normal to feel both. It doesn't mean it's being against something to feel some loss, it's just an emotion and it's okay to embrace feelings as they come up, and talk about them. We can celebrate and also have our feelings of loss...this is all complex...

Well, I'm not either. I was just going by what she keeps telling me--that she's the same person. Despite the fact that I too am trans (non-binary), I can't speak for others. I can only experience this life I'm living with Hannah.

"Michael," "mjp" ...I'd love to address what Roni has said about it being kind of a sad loss, but I honestly can't because I still can't figure out why it feels that way myself. Hannah is the same person. I think it has to be some kind of society-stereotypical brainwash we have/I have. I think...

I learned a lot about the tribes that attribute shamanic qualities to those that have mixed-gender identities. Black Swan hit it when she says the youngsters are only reinventing the wheel. If anyone is magical it would be you, my love. ?

Thanks guys. Yes it's lively now. I just want to keep it that way. Roni, I am so sorry you can't keep up. I love all your posts so far!

We still need more members though. I'm not sure where to get them from. I no longer have Facebook because I hated it there, but that was 2000 people I could have promoted to. Oh well. What can't ya do?

Hi all! I just set up a new forum for artists (with mjp's help, of course) and need new members. Please come register and participate! We need you. CreativeSpark.art

Thanks for the info. What I meant in reference to reading costs are really submission fees. I use Submittible (submittable.com) for the most part, which can be searched by genre (sort of), or deadline. You can also order the listings by "no fee." It mostly works well as a place to store your...

Hey, that's pretty cool. :) Thanks for the pics.

That's interesting that you say that. I did not know what a novelette was, but I have a piece that is about 25,000 words and can't for the life of me figure out how to lengthen it just to make it a novel, which was why I went back to working on the short stories. I thought about bundling it with...

I started reading him at around 14 and read Ham on Rye, then all his novels and short stories. The first poetry book I then read was Love is a Dog From Hell when I was about 17 or 18.

I'm just saying it's a wild concept to me because I have always been put down for thinking (knowing) he was a genius. It might have been different in the states. He always seemed to have been well received in Germany. I am not an expert on him as most of you are. I just love his work and he's...

So weird. I once practically got kicked out of my creative writing class in college for even referring to Bukowski at all. I was told that he was a disgrace to the English language. Ha. The fact that colleges and universities "teach" him is a pretty wild concept to me. I'm sure it would have...

It's never too late. Welcome.

That woman probably never even really read Bukowski or isn't sensitive to other people's experiences in general. There's a lot of judgement in this world. She is exactly the sort of person Buk writes about a lot of the time. People just aren't good to each other. Something like that, right...

Buk wrote a lot about sex. Similar to many other people on the earth, he liked sex and had sexual fantasies. Why is his fascination with sex/fantasy surprising to you? Are you some kind of stuffy repressed Jesus freak or something? What are you doing on a Bukowski forum? You must not be very...

I just now saw this. It's funny to me, I guess. I know a bit about the genre and I remember when Outsider artists were being given cigarettes and blankets in exchange for 40+ paintings at a time. Many were still alive then. Traylor wasn't of course, but his work was affordable still. Though...

Okay, here's when I was a bank teller...

Guess which one is me.

Thanks guys. You always know how to make me feel better. I did get one story published in a university pub. It's not out yet, but I'll let ya'll know when it's up. That was after submitting to about 50 places though. I can always keep trying and even keep trying before, after, and during...

What do you guys think the purpose of publishing a small book of short stories is? Am I high, or is it a waste of time? I mean, I know it probably is. I have no fantasies of getting rich off such a thing, but what are the reasons we would do this? Is it all ego? Whether we do it ourselves or...

Thank you. I really appreciate that. :) For me, all avenues and media are different, even in art: oil painting, watercolor, drawing, etc.--those are all different impulses, as you put them, or creative urges. For me anyway. But I don't see any of these things faster or quicker than the other...