Shameless self-promotion or a desperate cry for love? You decide.
I paid a lot of money to an orthopedic specialist who did a lot of X-rays and measurements and stretching and prodding. I asked him, "Is it normal for this kind of injury to be painful for this long?"...
View ArticleBeware the fury of a patient man
Yes, it's true -- I have finally received the mythical Peace Card set, a letterpress project that started well over three years ago. I sent off my contribution in October of 2002, and as you may have...
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 ArticleDecades and bits of centuries
Well I'm jumping ship. Gave a week's notice at the old job, so I'll work this coming Friday there and the following Monday at the new gig. A weekend is much better than the two years I had between jobs...
View ArticleDumb and dumber
I have in my hot little hands the final proof of the paperback version of Riding Out the Dumb Silence, and I'll be damned if it isn't right and tight and ready to go.
View ArticleChildren of a lesser dog from hell
I wrote this last summer for the Charles Bukowski Gesellschaft Jahrbuch, which is the German Bukowski Society yearbook. It is presented here in lieu of actual entertainment. Thank you.
View ArticleHotter than July
Carol made a detailed post about a Miranda July reading we saw last night, but I thought I would add my two cents, because that's just what I do.
View ArticleHarry Potter, I’m coming to kick your ass!
Way back in the olden days (January of 1995) I signed a fancy looking contract with Mother Road Publications for a book of poems and short stories. It was a long and drawn out birth (as these things...
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 ArticleMeet the new blog, same as the old blog
Here we are, in a new – something. For years I had a blog, then I got tired of writing in it and shut it down. Now look at me, I’m back. Most of the posts from the old blog are back too, like it or...
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 ArticleWasp Would Sting You
I’m in the midst of a seemingly never ending task. A place I often find myself. What makes my feeble mind encounter a ridiculous mound of sorting, scanning, building, fixing and otherwise general...
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 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...
View ArticleWhat Is mjp Books?
Or maybe I should say, who is mjp Books? In light of my last post I should probably say that mjp Books is no longer. Mainly because mjp is no longer. The books that are here will stay here since when I...
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