Father Luke
Founding member
Another 'Lets get to know each other' thread!
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God, this is just too funny.
I'm a scientist, but I dig good literature. I've never worn a pocket protecter, and I field random questions like dirty flies in my soup. I've never been to Mars, but I hope to go home some day. A yellow limousine with hot-tub square seats is waiting for me at the edge of the solar system; the driver is drinking mojitos and fellating herself whilst I get no bars on my cell phone, and the clouds are so grey that black doesn't mean anything anymore. I bought new strings; I've eaten paper; my colon looks like the autobahn; I've a direct pipe to the wastewater treatment plant, and my wife loves the ultimate form of birth control.
I love everything and hate it at the same time. I am no one. I've never existed.
I'm a scientist, but I dig good literature. I've never worn a pocket protecter, and I field random questions like dirty flies in my soup. I've never been to Mars, but I hope to go home some day. A yellow limousine with hot-tub square seats is waiting for me at the edge of the solar system; the driver is drinking mojitos and fellating herself whilst I get no bars on my cell phone, and the clouds are so grey that black doesn't mean anything anymore. I bought new strings; I've eaten paper; my colon looks like the autobahn; I've a direct pipe to the wastewater treatment plant, and my wife loves the ultimate form of birth control.
I love everything and hate it at the same time. I am no one. I've never existed.
chronic
old and in the way
Perhaps you should change your screen name to "Speedy Elimination."
Serously, I can eat a blueberry muffin and crap whole blueberries within ten minutes. It's as if my esophagus is connected to a storm drain.
I can see it now: A shoe repairman living in the sewer pondering my digestive system. Gives new meaning to blueberry cobbler.
Seriously folks, I'm here all week...make sure you tip your waitresses.
Seriously folks, I'm here all week...make sure you tip your waitresses.
Father Luke
Founding member
Prague.
me worky as artist. lover of coffee & mjp. mother to a 9 yr old border collie. favorite season is autumn, favorite place is los angeles and the high desert, will be 40 in exactly 3 weeks, not off my medication, likes to garden and write on my blog, into stand-up, doc films, indy films, and cheese cake.
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
It does not matter who I am but who and what you think I am.
So far I get a kick out of the horse part. lol
So far I get a kick out of the horse part. lol
what subject?
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Didn't I see "enviornmental scientist" That could mean a really good and advanced garbage man.;)
Im harry, a nick name vested on me from a woman in my past,
I work in the manufacturing world, I also persue a degree in Business Administration,
no kids, no pets, drink somewhat often, don't smoke anything, love driving, I get trilled when ever a omninuous assigment with overtones of extreme personal danger comes along.
I rarely write something but it's not as good as some of the stuff I read here, so, I hope I learn more.
I work in the manufacturing world, I also persue a degree in Business Administration,
no kids, no pets, drink somewhat often, don't smoke anything, love driving, I get trilled when ever a omninuous assigment with overtones of extreme personal danger comes along.
I rarely write something but it's not as good as some of the stuff I read here, so, I hope I learn more.
I get that more than you'd believe, GKHL. College degree in organic chemistry, MS in civil & environmental engineering. I'm a scientist though; never built a bridge in my life. And I mean that in every way possible.;)
All it ever taught me was how to read.
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
:) SO! You are a garbage man...and a good one too. I know( from Bliss) you love your dog so whatever you are you are a good guy.
We don't need no stinking bridges. ;)
We don't need no stinking bridges. ;)
Black Swan
Abord the Yorikke!
who am I ?
tempted to say that as i get older, I don't really know who I am,
more and more amazed by all of it,
all exceptions to the rules are now in the forefront,
I have a little store selling antiques and retro stuff,
to support a painting habit,
I teach visual arts at times,
I listen to music all day, always have, different styles.
I love Bukowski, Fante, Céline, Richmond, Vian, and J..:)
tempted to say that as i get older, I don't really know who I am,
more and more amazed by all of it,
all exceptions to the rules are now in the forefront,
I have a little store selling antiques and retro stuff,
to support a painting habit,
I teach visual arts at times,
I listen to music all day, always have, different styles.
I love Bukowski, Fante, Céline, Richmond, Vian, and J..:)
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bluebottle
Founding member
halfbreed apache (chiricahua apache from mescalero) here. like many of the above posters i knocked around a bit looking for work all over the states, having been a laborer, student, cook, firefighter, mill worker, substitute teacher, camp counselor, barista, other things.....but now working as a printer's devil at a letpress shop -mostly restoring old presses but still with the dream of printing my own stuff like loujon did back in the day with buk's poems. it's great to be in the company of those who really know their shit about bukowski. i am humbled everyday!
mjp
Founding member
Apache were fierce warriors! 'Nuff respect! I have Oglala Sioux further back in my bloodline (great grandmother).
I love this country, but when I think about how it was built over the blood and bones of so many proud native ancestors (not to mention exploited and enslaved immigrants) I get angry.
I know, me and everyone else, waaah! Okay, I shut up now.
bospress.net
www.bospress.net
bluebottle
Founding member
i am over here in hayward california, bill. i have checked out your site and really like what you are doing with letterpress. i have the same dream over here on the west coast. a Mano press (where i work) has three vandercooks at the moment, an sp 4, and sp 7, and a huge one whose name i forget - there's also an intertype, a couple kluges, a heidelburg, but no c&p! we sold it, but there is another one waiting in the wings, a 10 x 15, but with a bent axle. lots of hand set type, and a ludlow as well. a challenge cutter, and a palmer and rey.
bospress.net
www.bospress.net
ahhh... To work in a letterpress shop that is not in my garage!
Bill
Bill
pichon64
Not read nor write
I'm 44. I'm half Spanish half Italian, like the rest of the people in my country. We kindly exterminate all our indians (the true owners of this land) at the end of the 19th century.
I work at the public radio station in my country, earn U$S 6000 a year, pay U$S 285 for renting a 2 room apartment, wake at 4:30 am & walk to work and back (6 km each day) to save bus money. Best part: my shifts are only 6 hour long (from 6 to noon). The rest of the day: writing, reading, strolling the city.
I'm married, no kids, my wife earn U$S 3600 a year and work at a pasta factory, so we eat a lot of it for free.
That's me and life in Uruguay.
I work at the public radio station in my country, earn U$S 6000 a year, pay U$S 285 for renting a 2 room apartment, wake at 4:30 am & walk to work and back (6 km each day) to save bus money. Best part: my shifts are only 6 hour long (from 6 to noon). The rest of the day: writing, reading, strolling the city.
I'm married, no kids, my wife earn U$S 3600 a year and work at a pasta factory, so we eat a lot of it for free.
That's me and life in Uruguay.
Ok, let's see if I can actually be truthful about being a hooker.. .
40 year old second generation hippie. Long hair & beard. MJP, you still got that huge beard?
From the time I was a little kid I wanted to be a radio DJ. Started DJing dances in 7th grade and went to broadcasting school after highschool. Spent 20 years, or should I say, wasted 20 years in the business. Now I'm a washup with only an internet radio show. It keeps me sane. I work a desk job answering phones and currently am enrolled in a piano technician course. Dig the piano. But, I've stalled out on that as I stall on everything I start to do. I just can't finish shit. It's quite insanity inducing being me.
Oh, and YEAH!
40 year old second generation hippie. Long hair & beard. MJP, you still got that huge beard?
From the time I was a little kid I wanted to be a radio DJ. Started DJing dances in 7th grade and went to broadcasting school after highschool. Spent 20 years, or should I say, wasted 20 years in the business. Now I'm a washup with only an internet radio show. It keeps me sane. I work a desk job answering phones and currently am enrolled in a piano technician course. Dig the piano. But, I've stalled out on that as I stall on everything I start to do. I just can't finish shit. It's quite insanity inducing being me.
Oh, and YEAH!
HarryC13
RIP
Geez, I kinda lost track of the "what do you do for a living thing" ... must have been the inverted horse and the dialogue on Gerard's schwanz and blueberry poop.
Ahem.After starting out as a bartender and freelance writer, I have worked most of my life as a marketing writer. Took a three-year hiatus in the mid-90s to live in Key West, where I worked in customer service for the garbage company by day and freelanced for three magazines and wrote poetry by night. Have lived in Raleigh for the past almost 13 years, the last eight working as a marketing writer for IBM. Mostly I like it and the pay is OK, but since I've started writing poems again there's that old problem of trying to serve two masters. I think I'm juggling it pretty well.
My bowel movements are somewhere between Purple Stickpin's and Father Luke's and while I probably am not hung like a horse, no complaints from my wife. Which is really where it's at, after all. :)
Ahem.After starting out as a bartender and freelance writer, I have worked most of my life as a marketing writer. Took a three-year hiatus in the mid-90s to live in Key West, where I worked in customer service for the garbage company by day and freelanced for three magazines and wrote poetry by night. Have lived in Raleigh for the past almost 13 years, the last eight working as a marketing writer for IBM. Mostly I like it and the pay is OK, but since I've started writing poems again there's that old problem of trying to serve two masters. I think I'm juggling it pretty well.
My bowel movements are somewhere between Purple Stickpin's and Father Luke's and while I probably am not hung like a horse, no complaints from my wife. Which is really where it's at, after all. :)