Tearing down Bukowski. 5124 De Longpre Avenue. 9/21

01: The early morning BusTard contemplates the decrepit bungalow of the deceased Bukowski.

02: BusTard's impulsiveness, fueled by too much eastern sunshine and too little any alcohol, decides the "cultural earthquake" described by Time.com needs a kick-start.

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It’s been how many years some Bukowski has been dead and people in LA are still going on about his marginally talented ass. Yes I said it, marginally talented.

His house apparently is going to be demolished. I say good riddance. Let’s break the hope of the pointless. Why should we enable them to worship at the house of a false idol who is only relevant in gentrified bars of the newly sanitized “eastside.”

He was one of those right time and right place kind of artists.

No Bukowski was not a Hemmingway (Hemmingway, he’s a GOD.) He was not a Hunter. He was not a F Scott Fitzgerald. He was not a Capote. He was not a Dorothy. He was not a Henry Miller.

He wasn’t even a Kerouac and I’m still trying to get what the fuck was so great about a guy who just rambled on and on and on about things you ramble on and on about when you are high. I’ve read Kerouac over and over again and I do not get it. I get Ginsberg. I get William Borough. I don’t get Kerouac. Was is that he sucked Ginsberg’s cock? Or did Ginsberg want Jack to suck his cock and owing to that pumped up Jack and since people in LA don’t act until a “god” says it’s ok a “god” can say shit tastes good and people in LA will eat it.

I don’t know I don’t understand the “beat, hippy, pot smoking, beat loving Buddha bullshit spouting” crew. I’d just rather not bother with the entire state of California between 1960 and 1980.

Thank god all of those fuckers are dying off now.

Bukowski simply was a guy from the post office that a rich guy decided to make a project.

Similar to when rich women from Brentwood go to the inner city and teach the kids how to do something arty. The kids aren’t that good, but it’s fun to watch. Who would have thought that poor people could be arty and shit. Yeah I know it’s mean, but we all know it’s true.

“Wow little girl you sure are talented, that is a great painting,” rich lady to not very talented (but she’s trying) inner city girl.

Talented poor kids get thrown out "nice" programs in week one.

"If you can't learn to appreciate what opportunity we've given you then you'll just have to leave, we only like smiling shiny happy art here," rich lady.

Bukowski is in the school of writers that I like to call the “die already motherfucker, die” school. You know that group of writers, artists, eccentrics that get famous for not dying and being decrepit. Giving other mediocre artsy type people hope that their hopelessness can somehow be marketable in the right packaging.

I guess no one passed out the memo:

Only one drunken mediocre disgusting bastard every 50 years.

I don’t think the vast majority of his followers are going to make it to the semi finals of the uneducated, drunk and disgusting literary awards.

I personally think that Buk would appreciate the above tribute we at ShameTrain LA paid more than any kind of saving his house so you can “feel” his environment movement. That's kind of dumb.

Browne

Comments

[danny morgan]

wow dude ... you are the loser in this one ... this guy was a GREAT WRITER ...NOT SIMPLY GOOD BUT GREAT ...bet you're like a college educated (so you think) kind of dude huh? ... well keep trying ...bye bye

[Browne]

I'm a dudette. That dude is BusTard, he's just my model.

Browne

[BusTard]

Will someone please tell the "dude"-spouting putz that I am of neither college nor civilty bred?

Never mind; I will see to it myself: Danny, boy, I can swing both those sledgehammers in a fashion that will turn poorly strung ellipses into stars. Doan push yer luck, son; even a cursory glance will reveal that one of those full-sized tools is less than the length of my arm.

What the photos fail to reveal is the giant inkwell in which I dip them when I get ready to write an epitaph.