Will it make my t-shirt?

bospress.net

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You got it. I expect no reply.

We'll see. I was polite and just pointed out that the book title and poem was wrong and that on a 7 word poem, getting only 3 of the words correct (including "the") kinda ruins the poem.

Bill
 
bospress.net

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bospress.net said:
You got it. I expect no reply.
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no reply, of course. Seems that this journalism major does not know how to check a fact or two or to issue a correction. Frankly it would be easier to just have the article changed to reflect the true poem so that they did not look like such an amateur.

I guess that they don;t take their craft all that seriously.

Bill
 
Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
I suspected as much. It's easier to ignore the mistake and hope the Buk nuts will forget about it since the vast majority of the readers don't know the poem anyway. That's ethics in journalism for you!

It would be fun though if we all send him a mail. :eek::D
 
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bospress.net

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yes. it would be funny. Each e-mail would tell him that he needs to do a little bit of research in the future. It is people like this that keep insisting that Mr. Rogers was a convicted pedophile and had tats that he got while at Iwo Jima in WWII. Instead of doingf just a little research they pass these hoaxes on and because of ignorance they make the rounds for years.

As a "journalist" he should be very embarassed that he could not even get a 7 word poem right and screwed up over half of the words, when it would have taken 2 minutes to google it.

Sad, really.

Bill
 
poptop

poptop

Perhaps Barfly

HevyMinik said:
"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."

I just can't remember where it's from, tho...
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That sounds like a Bukowski line via Mickey Rourke from Barfly when he's hanging out with Tully after she cashed her publishing check for him... something like that. I'm sure one of the excellent Buk scholars 'around these here parts' can verify its likely source.

Poptop
 
Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

bospress.net said:
As a "journalist" he should be very embarassed that he could not even get a 7 word poem right and screwed up over half of the words, when it would have taken 2 minutes to google it.
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Not to mention that he ends with: 'He says on the first page of "Last Night of the Earth Poems," describing what I believe is his experience of sitting at his desk, typing on his old typewriter when he's really in the zone: "My wrists are rivers. My fingers are words."'

Yet most of the poems for The Last Night... were likely written from mid 1990-mid 1991, either on his selectric or Apple Macintosh (from Jan 91 on).
 
harrystuped

harrystuped

bospress.net said:
As a "journalist" he should be very embarassed that he could not even get a 7 word poem right and screwed up over half of the words, when it would have taken 2 minutes to google it.
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well looks like lo88 never came back...

it's kinda interesting because I have googled stuff before I post, P:
 
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plasteredpoet

Designing Bukowski T shirt

So I am planning on designing a new Buk T shirt. I don't like using likenesses on t shirts, I never snapped a photo of Buk personally so I don't own any rights to one. Anyway, when I design shirts based on great writers I don't like including pictures of the author. To me we are all fans of the words that were written and not necessarily the face that goes along with them.

If Jessica Alba ever writes a book I'm sure it will be vice versa.

Anyway, I have a graphic of this old, beat up typewriter with a blank sheet coming up out of it. Across the top I have room for two lines of text, beneath it I have room for one line of text and below that I plan on putting in smaller text "Charles Bukowski, Birth date - death date."

Anyone have the quintessential 3 lines of verse that would make the greatest Bukowski T shirt in the history of Bukowski?

I hope this post isn't out of line with MJP

I suppose I'll know for sure if it isn't here tomorrow.

The winning entrant will receive a free T shirt that they designed. If two people submit the same great idea whoever posted first wins.

If this is deleted then the contest is null and void.
 
Bukfan

Bukfan

"The law is wrong; I am right"
Here's my bid: These words I write keep me from total madness. - Charles Bukowski.
 
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CRBSMILE

CRBSMILE

Well first thing you might want to do, is go over the suggestions already posted earlier in this thread. They are all excellent. It'll be like trying to pick the brightest flower out of acres and acres of planted fields. It's your shirt/design Dude... what's your favorite quote? CRB:)
P.S. Since it might end up being a contest, MY vote is for my signiture quote... " So I thought I really had something. I did, I had lots of trouble."
C. BUKOWSKI.
 
planahea

planahea

RIP
The Authentic Tee Shirt

Why not just go with the authentic Buk tee and sweat shirts produced in 1982 by Black Sparrow Press with an original caricature of Buk by R. Crumb? They were available in six different colors. In my 31 years of representing BSP as an independent publishers' representative to the book trade, it's the only time I ever saw a group of genteel booksellers push and shove one another at a book show to get one of these while they lasted.

Last year, before I knew about you good people, I sent my remaining 6 sweat shirts to a couple young Buk fans in Atlanta. He and his gf were blown away as I never told them about it in advance. It was my token for having turned down their many pleas to sell them my copy of HORSEMEAT. I have 3 of those never been worn tee shirts remaining.

Nope, they are not for sale! :D
 

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plasteredpoet

that's cool and all....

But I'm not about to print :

A) R. Crumb's artwork

B) A graphic I didn't design

C) Black Sparrow's name

Those are very nice garments and I'm sure highly sought after but they aren't exactly condusive to staying out of courtrooms if I reproduced them.

".......Wrong kinds of Bars" and all that you know.

I'm Beginning to think that since the graphic is an old manual typewriter maybe one of Buk's quotes about his typewriter might be in order.

Anybody have any quotes that spring to mind?

If not I suppose I can dig into to "Boardinghouse Madrigals" or "Last Night....Poems"
 
bospress.net

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Those are very nice garments and I'm sure highly sought after but they aren't exactly condusive to staying out of courtrooms if I reproduced them.
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...for that matter, reproducing any of Bukowski's words could get you sued by Ecco or the estate, although you have less of a chance than just taking the Crumb/BSP design. Still, his words are protected by copyright and reproducing them is a violation of that.

It does sound like it will be a more attractive design than most of the ones that you find around the net...

Bill
 
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plasteredpoet

So here's what I'm doing

The manual typer is at the bottom of the shirt with a leaf of paper extending from it up and out to the top of the shirt, widening as it goes up. Upon the paper is typed

"I hurled myself toward my personal god: SIMPLICITY. The tighter and smaller you got it the less chance there was of error and the lie. Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.Words were bullets, words were sunbeams, words cracked through doom and damnation.

Charles Bukowski
Birth date-death date
 
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marqcoig

my submissions, if you still want 'em.

"show me a man who lives alone and has a prpetually dirty kitchen, and 5 times out of 9 I'll show you an exceptional man."
--Charles Bukowski, June 27, 1967 over 19th bottle of beer.

"show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualitieis."
--Charles Bukowski, June 27, 1967 over 20th bottle of beer.

Those two would have to go on the shirt together. Or there's this one from the last line of The Captain Is Out To Lunch...:

"Screw you buddy...I don't like Tolstoy either!"

probably the best exit line to any book I ever seen.
 
chronic

chronic

old and in the way
You actually took the (rather crappy) art from a CD cover, changed one word and are selling it as your own tee shirt design?!?

Who the fuck are you? Andy Warhol?
 
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