I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but...
Hunter S. Thompson is dead, and while that news shouldn't really surprise anyone, it is disturbing. Not because I'll miss what he's written lately (admittedly I did not keep up with the good doctor's...
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well, this is the funniest damn thing I've seen today (the news-department-serious caption is what's really funny).
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On the typewriter in front of Thompson was a page bearing letterhead reading "Fourth Amendment Foundation". Upon this page, centered near the top was typed "Feb 22 '05", and the page contained only one...
View ArticleSan Pedro Anarchy Press, Inc.
welp, the letterpress poem project is finally finished. it kind of dragged out over a long time, but things tend to do that when you are a lazy procrastinator. if you're a patron of the weird arts, you...
View ArticleShake a leg
today I packed up the old prosthetic leg that has been with me for 10 years or so (yes, those are jungle cats under the fiberglass). it's going to live in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which is as good a place as...
View ArticleScuttlebutt and innuendo
Now that the Bukowski material is all gone from smog there's probably no one here to read this. Ah, well. Maybe you'll all show up on the groovy new Bukowski forum, over at http://bukowski.net/forum/...
View ArticleShakespeare never did this
Stopped by the Los Angeles Antiquarian Book Fair at the Century Plaza hotel on Friday. Well, "stopped by" isn't exactly accurate, as you can't just "stop by" either the hotel or the book fair, since...
View ArticleEveryone’s a critic
To celebrate Thanksgiving my dog Buddy took one of the hardcover copies of Riding Out the Dumb Silence out into the yard and ate it. Well, he tried to eat it all, but he choked on some of the words,...
View ArticleMy baby, she wrote me a letter
Carol is working on a new book, and in an effort to make it as labor-intensive as possible, she is actually typing out the text on each finished page (hundreds of them) by hand on an old Underwood...
View ArticleHooray! It’s the mailman!
I’ve been considering running a month-long promotion to give away electronic versions of my books. I figure the typical person who would dig what I’m doing here might also be a book collector, so...
View ArticleWriting the world’s greatest novel
I am writing a book. I’ve written a few books, but this one is different. It’s really long. It started as a short story about being on the road in a punk band, Sonny Vincent and The Extreme, back in...
View ArticleThe senseless, tragic rape of Charles Bukowski’s ghost by John Martin’s Black...
If you’ve ever read anything by Charles Bukowski, you no doubt remember the feeling you had the first time you came across his work. For better or worse, Bukowski is one of those authors who you don’t...
View ArticleThe senseless, tragic rape of Charles Bukowski’s ghost; the prequel
The article, The senseless, tragic rape of Charles Bukowski’s ghost by John Martin’s Black Sparrow Press tells the story (read that first if you haven’t already), but for the curious there is an...
View ArticleThe tragic flogging of a dead rape horse, a.k.a. locking the door on...
I have another long post here that I have been waiting to publish. It’s called, The senseless, tragic rape of Charles Bukowski’s ghost; John Martin speaks. It was meant to be the final part of the...
View ArticleIn your ears
Oh look, he’s back. It’s been a few months, for those of you who didn’t realize I was gone. You’re probably thinking I ran out of things to say, but that’s not it. I have a few posts here that I’ve...
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