Harry 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 ArticleSome people call me the space rabbit
This is for Tom. I don’t usually do these “tag, you’re it” things, but as it turns out I did it once before, so here we are again. Image number four from the fourth image directory on my computer:...
View ArticleHoliday questions to warm your heart and tickle your beautiful soul
There is a great forum over at bukowski.net. I have participated in a lot of forums and online groups, and it is unusual to find one that is interesting and informative and not just full of bullshit...
View ArticleSpeak now or forever hold your peace
I got sick at the beginning of the year and a nasty infection decided to set up a permanent home in my chest. It is improving somewhat now, but only after two rounds (!) of Azithromycin. I don't...
View ArticleYou are here
Carol and I saw a young girl the other day, gazing lovingly at some celebrity who had his arm around her, and it got us talking about how odd all of that is. We’ve both hobnobbed with our share of...
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 ArticleHey, get your damn feet off my desk
Someone was talking about paper cutters today, and it brought back some unpleasant memories. For most of my life I worked at jobs that were dirty, difficult and dangerous. They started when I was 17...
View ArticleIt’s for you…it’s the future calling
I retired my HTC Android space phone after using it for a year. It did a lot of cool things. A lot of cool, unnecessary things. And it cost a lot of money. Money that was ultimately wasted because I...
View ArticleOh, did you say something?
Well, this is funny. Clicked link in a guardian article. Led to a bukowski blog, which featured a rude commenter, His profile led to website. Led to @mjpinLA. — Patrick Delaney (@pxdelaney) April 30,...
View ArticleTime will tell
My hair is long, as it often tends to be, and lately I’ve been letting my beard grow. It’s been doing its own thing for almost five months, so it’s about as long as it’s ever been. Unlike (some 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...
View ArticleI’m an expert at the Internet
I moved the site to a new server almost a month ago and I just now noticed that all the direct links to the articles have been broken since then. You’d think after 20 years I’d know how to do this...
View ArticleA podcast ate my blog!
When I started the podcast I thought it would be no big thing, and I’d still be posting here in the blog. As with so many things in life though, I was quite wrong. As it turns out, the podcast eats up...
View ArticleHow to do everything wrong
I told you that a podcast ate my blog, but other than that I haven’t said much about it around here. Maybe because I don’t see much separation between here and there, but I suppose there is some...
View ArticleBringing the hammer down
Someone who works here in the office has a body odor problem. I mean, that’s not exactly accurate, is it? The person who stinks doesn’t have the problem, everyone else does. So we have a body odor...
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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