pseudonyms!

Gerard K H Love

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You're right james.

Francois Racine is actually Steve Baës.

There's a lot more detail in the Bukowski story 'My friend the gambler', published in High Times October 1984.

In 'My friend...' his character is called 'Steve Cosmos'. Bukowski paints him as a wild character, borrowing money and skipping out all the time. He is referred to as 'one of the ten most wanted men' in Europe, an actor and con man who scams banks and casinos. He goes to the track with Chinaski then goes back to France. He gets jailed in Paris, then he jumps bail. Later he turns up again in the USA staying with Jean Sasoon (Schroeder). Still gambling, he borrows money from Chinaski and then he works as Chinaski's gardener. While Sasoon is filming a documentary about Chinaski, he persuades Cosmos to write an autobiographical story, about a professional gambler. Then Sasoon leaves for Paris to get the film of this story into production. Cosmos vanishes and resurfaces in Paris to act the part of 'Director of the Casino' in the film based on his story, which Sasoon is directing (this is a real film, Tricheurs). 'My friend the gambler' closes with Chinaski meeting Cosmos again at a race track in the US. A lot of the detail from 'Hollywood' is there too, the poor neighbourhood with the chickens and the arms coming through the wall. It's a good one. :cool:

Where has this hank solo been hiding. I'm glad to see one of our favorite research scholars has returned.

( maybe there haven't been any good questions asked lately )
 
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thanks much hank solo!

just checked my buk inventory; i have that issue of high times so i guess it's time for a re-read....
 
This is my 1st visit to this site & want to thank everyone for posting the pseudonyms. Some I knew, many I didn't, thanks either way.
 

Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait

Hollywood:
Lido Mamin = Idi Amin

http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...2&ei=MOgaS_-ZB4Om-AaDzMyWBw&q=idi+amin&hl=en# (90 min.)

The documentary made by Barbet Schroeder as described by Buk in Hollywood:

The room darkened and The Laughing Beast spread across the screen.

Lido Mamin was a large man, in size and ambition, but his country
was poor and small. With the big countries he played his cards both
Left and Right, bargaining and counter-bargaining with both factions
for money, food, weapons. But, actually, he wanted to rule the world.
He was a bloody bastard with a marvelous sense of humor. He
realized that, basically, all life was worthless, except his.


It was a fascinating documentary and I was happy to tell Pinchot
as much.
"Yes," he answered, "I like strange men. That is why I have come
to find you."
"I am very honored," I said, "to be one with Lido Mamin."


Interesting background story on the documentry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Idi_Amin_Dada:_A_Self_Portrait
 
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Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
Pseudonyms in "Women" :

Dinky Summers: Bob Linde - singer/guitarist friend of Buk's
Lydia Vance: Linda King - one of Buk's longtime relationships
Dee Dee Bronson: Liza Williams - executive at Island Records - lover of Buk's
Tammie: Pamela Miller ("Cupcakes") - lover of Buk's
Arlene: Georgia Peckham-Krellner - friend of Pamelas
Sammy Levinson: Neeli Cherkowski - friend of Buk's
Tanya: Amber O'Neill (also a pseudonym!) - fan/lover of Buk's
Mercedes: Joanna Bull - fan of Buk's
William Keesing: William Wantling - poet & friend of Buk's
Cecilia Keesing: Ruth Wantling - wife of William
Sara: Linda Bukowski
Drop On Inn: Dew Drop Inn
Drayer Baba: Maher Baba - indian guru
Bobby & Valerie: Brad & Tina Darby - friends & neighbours of Buk's
Douglas Fazzick: Douglas Blazek - editor of "Ole" & publisher of Buk
Bart McIntosh: Ted Laturnus - organizer of Buk's reading in Vancouver 1976


Is Joanna Dover: Susanna? (the 6 foot goddess.)

http://authenticbukowski.com/manuscripts/displaymanuscript.php?show=letter1978-01-17-charlotte.jpg
 
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hank solo

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I would guess not, unless he's changed a chunk of the chronology around. That part of Women seems to refer to a period in 1975, between the Houston reading in October and news of Linda King's miscarriage in December. The letter is from 1978.
 

Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
But he visited "Joanna Dover" in Galveston, isn't it?
He's referring to that visit in the letter to her friend Charolette.
 

Black Swan

Abord the Yorikke!
I have been trying to find info and a photo of Baës and it has been so far impossible. I bought an old VHS copy of the film, which I havn't watched yet, but soon will. I will take a photo of a still frame, so we can finally see his face. It is impossible to know what has happened to Steve Cosmos. The actor on the cover with the cigar is Jacques Dutronc, a french singer.
 
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hank solo

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...a photo of Baës:-

steve_baes_1984_tricheurs.png
 
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Hard to imagine him gardening for money to spend at the track.

That's a great article. Bukowski at some of his most honest and heartfelt. You get a great sense of how he deals with his male relationships, and how the filter we all deal with provides a disjoint from how we feel and how we act. At our best we leave that at the bottom of the crapper, but we have a survival instinct that gets marred by bullshit and pain.We con ourselves all the time, and Bukowski lays out the regret and fallacy of our surface motivations.
 

Rekrab

Usually wrong.
Maybe it's already mentioned above, or in a different thread, but didn't Buk call himself "_______ Sweetmeat" in a story?

Boy, am I glad that I 'm not stone. I am still at the bottom of the crapper. I need puppets to understand what you are saying. o_0o

I'm not sure what that means, Black Swan, but I sure like the way it sounds. Puppet translators! Don't anyone tell Thomas Ligotti about this; I want to write that story myself.
 

bospress.net

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<non sequitur> As you may know, Ulysses S. Grant was actually named Hiram Ulysses Grant. The name Ulysses S. Grant was a typo and the "S" did not stand for anything, just like in Harry S Truman's name... </non sequitur>

I am sometimes distracted by shiny things...
 

bospress.net

www.bospress.net
from wikipedia, the only source for truth (except for the bible, of course and only the verses that prove your point, not the ones that disprove your point or contradict your point:wb:)

Jesus H. Christ is an example of slang serving as a profanity.[1]
100px-IHC-monogram-Jesus-medievalesque.svg.png

The expression dates to at least the late 19th century, although according to Mark Twain it was already old in 1850.[2][need quotation to verify]
Using the name of Jesus Christ as an oath has been common for many centuries, but the precise origins of the letter H in the expression Jesus H. Christ are obscure. While many explanations have been proposed, some serious and some not, the most widely accepted derivation is from the divine monogram of Christian symbolism. The symbol, derived from the first three letters of the Greek name of Jesus (Ιησούς), is transliterated iota-eta-sigma: IHS, ΙΗϹ (with lunate sigma), JHS or JHC. Since the transliteration IHS gave rise to the backronym Iesus Hominum Salvator (Latin for "Jesus, savior of men"), it is plausible that JHC similarly led to Jesus Harnaldo Christ,[3] Harold coming from the mispronunciation of the word "hallowed" of the Lord's Prayer: "Our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name." The H has also been said to stand for "Holy."
 

Rekrab

Usually wrong.
That was enlightening. So, long story short, it's Jesus Harold Christ. Better than Hiram, I suppose.
 

hank solo

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Pseudonyms in "Women" :

Dinky Summers: Bob Linde - singer/guitarist friend of Buk's
Lydia Vance: Linda King - one of Buk's longtime relationships
Dee Dee Bronson: Liza Williams - executive at Island Records - lover of Buk's
Tammie: Pamela Miller ("Cupcakes") - lover of Buk's
Arlene: Georgia Peckham-Krellner - friend of Pamelas
Sammy Levinson: Neeli Cherkowski - friend of Buk's
Tanya: Amber O'Neill (also a pseudonym!) - fan/lover of Buk's
Mercedes: Joanna Bull - fan of Buk's
William Keesing: William Wantling - poet & friend of Buk's
Cecilia Keesing: Ruth Wantling - wife of William
Sara: Linda Bukowski
Drop On Inn: Dew Drop Inn
Drayer Baba: Maher Baba - indian guru
Bobby & Valerie: Brad & Tina Darby - friends & neighbours of Buk's
Douglas Fazzick: Douglas Blazek - editor of "Ole" & publisher of Buk
Bart McIntosh: Ted Laturnus - organizer of Buk's reading in Vancouver 1976

That's the pseudonyms in "Women" that I've worked out so far. Has anyone found some pseudonyms not on my list?

Mindy: Joan Babbage
 
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Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
Iris Hall ( the Canadian belly dancer): Jane Manhattan

Charles Bukowski - David Calonne - Critical Lives
page 122.
 

PhillyDave

“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
Do they even have belly dancers in Canada? Going tomorrow. I'll look into that and get back to you.
 
I just saw the posting by Buk Fan with all of the pseudonyms. That is really fantastic. I'll have to re-read Hollywood. Too bad for me it's buried in one of my boxes that although they are labeled I'm too damn tired to keep up with life let alone dig through my big pile of boxes. I dream of the day when I can get out of this cottage and move into a bigger place where I can actually put my books onto a book shelf for God's sake. But again, thanks for that list of names. This website is awesome.
 
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