Father Luke
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There will be fireworks. . . guaran-fucking-teed
Congratulaptions to the both of you'se guys !
Linda Bukowski on MySpace? Plus; P Howard/Bon't try/BOSP/jazz...
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There will be fireworks. . . guaran-fucking-teed
Congratulaptions to the both of you'se guys !
www.myspace.com/2660895
Here's the link to the Bukowski fan page.
The guy who runs it is under Bukowski's friend list. He's the number 1 friend. Michael.
I just thought of something. I hope the guy doesn't post here. Or lurk here for that matter. I'd hate to offend anyone. Although after just viewing his stupid goddamn photos again, I don't care. It's actually a well put together tribute site. I've seen worse.
Here's the link to the Bukowski fan page.
The guy who runs it is under Bukowski's friend list. He's the number 1 friend. Michael.
I just thought of something. I hope the guy doesn't post here. Or lurk here for that matter. I'd hate to offend anyone. Although after just viewing his stupid goddamn photos again, I don't care. It's actually a well put together tribute site. I've seen worse.
Did you scroll down the Buk page to the friends list? Lower right hand side towards the bottom of the homepage. Look for a sentence that says Bukowski has 8000 some friends and look at the 16 or so boxes that contain photos of other people. Mike is the first photo. Click on his box and it'll take you to his homepage. You'll see a photo of Mike and some chick and right under it is the word pics. Just click on those.
Golly... better not send that "Thanks for the add." message.
mjp
Founding member
Looks like it's gone.
People still say that? You'd think it's almost become common now. Carol and I "met" through email over the old smog.net, and this was back in 97, 98, so you can imagine it seemed weird to a lot more people back then. But no one has freaked out over it. Not to our faces anyway. Then again, this is Los Angeles, so I suppose there are truly weird ways we could have met.
No need to wonder, he did not.
Eh...okay. Well, I have to go with Jordan on this one. That says more about the ego of the person saying it than the state of the internet or comedy in general. It's like saying, "Gee, I'm sure glad John Lennon was murdered, I would have hated to see him do a grunge record." What the fuck?
Oh my, it's the "Bon't Try" tattoo guy!
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Same here. That has always made me laugh. :D
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Bon't ask. Bon't tell.
Bon't make me laugh.
Bon't make me laugh.
Bon't try.
Father Luke
Founding member
Point.
I like Bill's response to Jordan. Friends are not to be collected like some badge of my worth. Which is funny, because I make everyone on Buk.net my friend. I'm the Tom of Buk.net. LOL!
You know, the "exposure" MySpace affords? Arguably, MySpace created Dane Cook.
I suppose there are worse things in life, than being Dane cook. * gack* *koff*
From a technical standpoint MySpace blows. MySpace has consistently been voted among the top very worst sites on the web.
Hey! Great thread !
bospress.net
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I was going to post something witty about "Bon't Try", thinking that I was the first one to make the connection. Seems like I'm way fucking late. I guess that I Bidn't try hard enough...
Bill
Bill
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
I noticed that and I just thought you were being friendly and making everyone feel welcome.
It is nice, though. Besides...you come from a big family.
bospress.net
www.bospress.net
Sweet Fancy Moses!! It does say Bon't Try! I felt bad before. I bon't now.
bospress.net
www.bospress.net
Bon't you mean "I Bon't now?"
Bill
Bill
Father Luke
Founding member
Mercury Retro - - -
Some days I hate to go to work.
For when I'm gone:
Listening to: Nekromantix
Reading: The Sun
Eating: The usual . . .
Who hates me: Almost everyone
Who loves me: Almost everyone
Favorite Author to Quote today: Shakespeare.
and all the other threads I'll miss. . .
- -
Okay,
Father Luke
Some days I hate to go to work.
For when I'm gone:
Listening to: Nekromantix
Reading: The Sun
Eating: The usual . . .
Who hates me: Almost everyone
Who loves me: Almost everyone
Favorite Author to Quote today: Shakespeare.
and all the other threads I'll miss. . .
- -
Okay,
Father Luke
mjp
Founding member
Yeah, it's done the same with a thousand marginal bands. It's changed the way a lot of crappy entertainers pattern their careers. But the same can be said for the internet in general, or more accurately, the web. There have never been more bad artists, musicians, poets, jesters, dog trainers, chimney sweeps or stunt car drivers than there are now. The web has allowed mediocrity to flourish.
I used to think that was not a problem, but now I'm not so sure. I always thought that the best would continue to rise to the top, regardless of how large the pool was that they had to climb from. But it appears that the larger the audience, the more room there is for crap (to bring it back around to someone like Dane Cook), and the audience for the good stuff stays the same size it's always been (small).
But maybe I just don't know what's good anymore.
Father Luke
Founding member
That's your new signature right there.
Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
He could, but he's always going to be the Father Luke.:cool:
justine
stop the penistry
yes, they do still say that. but on the other hand, plenty of people have been totally supportive and positive.
as for myspace and the internet: it's like that old cliche about guns - it's not the internet that's dangerous; it's the people who use it. in everyday life in the 'real world' i have to wade through a ton of shit to find the good stuff, with both people and art. but i live in one tiny city in one tiny part of the world, and the internet operates in the same way for me - i visit/occupy one tiny part of it. all it takes is finding one good site, and then you're linked to a bunch of other good sites and through them to others, and so on (which is the point i made in that essay i wrote about the impact of the digital age on the small press scene).
and as for the creepy questions myspace asks of underage children: myspace does not come uninvited into your house and prey on your kids. there are plenty of other media forms asking kids creepy questions about their sexuality - magazines, tv programs, movies. there is no way to absolutely shield children from any of these media, so all a parent can do is teach their kids how to navigate safely through them.
i have a myspace page (although i rarely use it now), jordan has one. plenty of awesome, interesting, nice people i know have one. i don't go looking for self-absorbed, shallow myspace users, and anyone who has approached me who seems that way can be/has been deleted out of my internet realm with the mere click of a button. if only the 'real world' worked the same way!
chronic
old and in the way
It does, only instead of "button" they call it a "trigger."
jordan
lothario speedwagon
totally illogical. look, i don't give a fuck what you're doing on your website, yet you talk quite a bit about it over on one of the other boards. it doesn't have to be promoted on myspace for me not to care about it.
put another way, how is what you just said specific in any way to myspace? are you somehow impugning the users of that site as vapid in a way that no one who participates in any other online community is? it leads me back to my original question of what your fuckin problem with myspace is in the first place. you keep lobbing these overly general platitudes about it (including your problem with the OPTIONAL question of one's sexual orientation), but you seem incapable of pinning down any criticism directed at the site itself- only the stereotype of its users that YOU INVENTED IN ORDER TO CRITICIZE IT.
sweaty armpit- that's a good one; i'd ask you if you thought of it yourself, but you already said you didn't.
Father Luke
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