Trivia part III

roni

roni

Ponder said:
Who shot the 1983 interview with Buk for German Cosmopolitan Magazine?
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I'm not to answer that one.
But as a small hint may serve you, to find out about another question first:
Who lead that interview?


Ponder:
I hope it's okay to make this a double-feature-question (which is a thing I just have invented) by dropping this.
I simply had to, I couldn't resist.

(and I'll give you a little story after it's solved.)
 
bogdan

bogdan

Frances Schoenberger led the interview. Don't know who shot it, though... maybe Montfort, took pictures with one hand and filmed with the other :)
 
bogdan

bogdan

That's my favorite too, but not Buk's.
It's not one of the big books and he felt bad that he wasted that title on a mimeo.
 
bogdan

bogdan

Yep, that's the one.
He wrote it in The Captain is Out to Lunch..., while thinking of a title for his next book (The Last Night of the Earth Poems): "Of all my dozens of titles the one I liked best was Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts. But I blew that one away on a little mimeo pamphlet. Too bad." (page 28/29)
You're next James.
 
james

james

ok, bukowski's grandmother was said to often have terrible gas. what did buk's father think the cause of it was? bonus: what did she usually say after breaking wind at the dinner table?
 
Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

Buk rarely wrote about his horse-betting strategies, but he did at one time write a fairly lengthy, if rather vague, description of one of his numerical ranking systems for selecting a winning horse. What was his criterion for choosing the winner?
 
roni

roni

"I always look for the non-public horse who could beat the favorite. If I found nobody could beat the favorite, I bet the favorite."
(Post Office)

But this is only one of several strategies I've read from him.
And of course, his general advice was to bet different than the masses do.
 
Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

All true, roni, but I'm looking for a specific numerical system he writes about. He doesn't actually discuss the numbers, but at the end of it, he says: "and the horse with the__________is the winner."
 
Black Swan

Black Swan

Abord the Yorikke!
The Formula K, in Horsemeat,
M plus S plus C plus O
(brought down to the relative power of 1/4 each):
the horse with the lowest total is the winner.
Please don't ask me to apply the formula :)
 
Ponder

Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
New question?
New question.

How much did Buk & Linda pay for their San Pedro house?
 
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