#1920-1994 german-american

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

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我沒時間浪費在沒有靈魂的事上。

Je n'ai pas de temps à perdre avec des choses sans âme.

Charles Bukowski 查理·布考斯基／德裔美國詩人，小說家和短篇小說家。Bukowski的寫作風格嚴重的受到了他在洛杉磯家鄉的地理和氣氛的影響，特點是側重於描寫生活處於社會邊緣地位的貧困美國人、寫作行為、酒、與女人的交往、苦工的工作和賽馬。他的作品很多，有數以千計的詩，數以百計的小故事和6篇小說，最終擁有60多本圖書出版。

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

我考慮過自殺，不過我對我的身體、我的生活產生了一種奇怪的愛。 儘管他們傷痕累累，但他們是我的。

—Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye 1982; his semi-autobiographical novel.

I considered suicide, but I felt a strange fondness for my body, my life. Scarred as they were, they were mine.

—Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

[g-h-o-s-t-2000]

Charles Bukowski, German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer (1920-1994)

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 11.15

Beer Birthdays

Grant Wood (1962)

Five Favorite Birthdays

J.G. Ballard; English writer (1930)

Daniel Barenboim; Argentinian-Israeli pianist & conductor (1942)

Georgia O'Keeffe; artist (1887)

Wayne Thiebaud; artist (1920)

Sam Waterson; actor (1940)

Famous Birthdays

Franklin Pierce Adams; journalist & author (1881)

Eusebius Amort; German poet (1692)

Edward Asner; actor (1929)

Gemma Atkinson; actor, model (1984)

Joanna Barnes; actress (1934)

Cynthia Breazeal; computer scientist (1967)

Kevin S. Bright; director (1954)

Carol Bruce; singer & actress (1919)

Mary E. Byrd; astronomer (1849)

Văn Cao; Vietnamese composer, poet & painter (1923)

Jimmy Choo; Malaysian fashion designer (1948)

Petula Clark; country singer (1928)

Gerry Connolly; Australian comedian & actor (1957)

Beverly D'Angelo; actress (1951)

Emma Dumont; actress and model (1994)

Tibor Fischer; English author (1959)

Gloria Foster; actress (1933)

Felix Frankfurter; U.S. Supreme Court justice (1882)

Judy Gold; comedian and actress (1962)

René Guénon; French-Egyptian philosopher (1886)

Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet (913)

Gerhart Hauptmann; German writer (1862)

William Herschel; German-English astronomer (1738)

Joe Hinton; singer (1929)

Rick Kemp; English singer-songwriter, bass player (1941)

Yaphet Kotto; actor (1937)

Emil Krebs; German polyglot (1867)

Johann Kaspar Lavater; Swiss poet & physiognomist (1741)

Virginie Ledoyen; French actress (1976)

Joe Leeway; English pop singer-songwriter (1955)

Curtis LeMay; air force general (1906)

Anni-Frid Lyngstad; pop singer (1945)

Mantovani; Italian composer (1905)

C.W. McCall; country singer (1928)

Clyde McPhatter; singer (1932)

Bill Melendez; Mexican-American animator & director (1916)

Jonny Lee Miller; English-American actor (1972)

Marianne Moore; poet (1887)

Kevin J. O'Connor; actor (1963)

Ol' Dirty Bastard; rapper and producer (1968)

Daniel Pinkwater; author & illustrator (1941)

William Pitt "the Elder"; English politician (1708)

Alvin Plantinga; philosopher (1932)

Seldon Powell; jazz saxophonist, flautist (1928)

Joseph Quesnel; French-Canadian poet, playwright & composer (1746)

Erwin Rommel; German field marshall (1891)

Randy Savage; wrestler (1952)

Madeleine de Scudéry; French author (1607)

Johannes Secundus; Dutch poet & author (1511)

Sacheverell Sitwell; English author (1897)

Antoni Słonimski; Polish journalist, poet & playwright (1895)

Randy Thomas; singer-songwriter, guitarist (1954)

Rachel True; actress (1966)

Joseph A. Wapner; television judge (1919)

James Widdoes; actor & director (1953)

Thomas Williams; author (1926)

Shailene Woodley; actress (1991)

[jamieroxxartist]

Birthday Remembrances. Today, Aug 16, 1920 – #CharlesBukowski, German-American author and poet (d. 1994) was born.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski )

[honeyleesblog]

Unlocking the Zodiac Sign and Personalities of Those Born on May 6

They are unpretentious individuals, who battle with diligence towards their ventures and life objectives. Very sluggish and difficult to finish things. They falter in some cases. They appreciate harmony and rest after work. They grow progressively with their various encounters. They can take what is great and adjust it to their current circumstance. They express the sensation of being nearly mediumship. They are ready for anything and certainty. They have the advantage of prevalence over others. They safeguard their goals and battle for their convictions. In discussion, they are definitive and equipped for creating extraordinary strength. At the point when they connect with their own kin, they can be extremely vocal. In these circumstances your character stirs. They have fascinating accomplishment with regards to their childhood. They can accomplish acknowledgment through their imaginative and scholarly inventiveness. They can likewise accomplish positive outcomes in the areas of science or governmental issues. In any case, from here on out, you might choose to stop to rise in a profound way and cutoff the faculties and matter. Enriched with instinct and dream, frequently communicating critical melodic ability. They are portrayed by inventive capacities of singular reflections and the capacity to zero in on their work and life undertakings. They are by and large delayed to make decisions. On the off chance that they do, it is on the grounds that they have a full comprehension of the circumstance. In this manner, they frequently accomplish a decent position, contingent likewise upon their starting point and the training got. They may ultimately be regarded by others and earn general respect. Unlocking the Zodiac Sign and Personalities of Those Born on May 6 

 In the event that your birthday is on May 6, your zodiac sign is Taurus May 6 - character and character character: insightful, taught, perceptive, miserable, miserable, awful; calling: crystal gazer, engineer, executive; colors: cyan, green, orange; stone: adularia; creature: eland; plant: coconut palm; fortunate numbers: 11,16,27,36,51,58 very fortunate number: 34 Occasions and observances - May 6 Worldwide Day Without Diets. May 6 VIP Birthday. Who was conceived that very day as you? 1902: Max Ophდ¼ls, German movie producer. 1904: Harry Martinson, Swedish author, 1974 Nobel Prize victor for writing, imparted to Eyvind Johnson. 1905: Manuel Mendizდ¡bal, Spanish researcher and government official (f. 1996). 1909: დ?ngel Juan Quesada, Spanish ensemble chief and writer (d. 1988). 1913: Stewart Granger, English entertainer (d. 1993). 1915: Orson Welles, American entertainer and producer (d. 1985). 1916: Robert Henry Dicke, American cosmologist. 1919: Alejandro Finisterre, Spanish designer and writer. 1920: Vicente Fuentes Dდ­az, Mexican government official and antiquarian (d. 2010). 1922: Otmar Suitner, Austrian guide and artist. 1923: Josep Seguer, Spanish footballer. 1924: Nდ©stor Basterretxea, Spanish stone worker and painter (d. 2014). 1925: John Bayard Britton, American specialist killed by an enemy of abortionist (d. 1994). 1926: Helios Sarthou, Uruguayan government official (d. 2012). 1928: Robert Poujade, French government official. 1929: Paul C. Lauterbur, American physicist, 2003 Nobel Prize victor for physiology or medication. 1930: Vladimir Abazarov, Soviet geologist (d. 2003). 1931: Willie Mays, American baseball player. 1934: Luis დ?ngel Rojo, Spanish market analyst, legislative leader of the Bank of Spain (f. 2011). 1937: Rubin Tropical storm Carter, American fighter. 1937: Nდ©stor Isella, Argentine soccer player (d. 2015). 1941: Guillermo Galeote Jimდ©nez, Spanish government official. 1943: Andreas Baader, German head of the RAF. 1944: Anton Furst, English film maker. 1944: Fernando Mდ©ndez-Leite, Spanish producer. 1945: Xosდ© Lluis Garcდ­a Arias, Spanish philologist and essayist. 1945: Sway Seger, American vocalist. 1947: Alan Dale, New Zealand entertainer. 1947: Francisco Galdდ³s, Spanish cyclist. 1947: Martha Nussbaum, American thinker. 1950: Samuel Kanyon Doe, Liberian government official and military man. 1951: Pierre Foldes, French specialist, co-designer of a method to fix the harm brought about by a removal of the clitoris. 1952: Christian Piano, French entertainer. 1952: Fernando Lდ³pez-Love, Spanish legislator. 1953: Tony Blair, English Head of the state. 1953: Omar Pდ©rez Santiago, Chilean author. 1953: Graeme Souness, English footballer and mentor. 1955: Pedro Piqueras, Spanish writer. 1958: Lolita Flores, Spanish vocalist and entertainer. 1959: Julia Otero, Spanish writer. 1960: Juan Luis Cano, Spanish writer, individual from Gomaespuma. 1960: Mauricio Electorat, Chilean author. 1961: George Clooney, American entertainer and movie producer. 1963: Sebastiდ¡n Schon, Argentine stone performer. 1965: Leslie Trust, Canadian entertainer. 1966: Marta Belaustegui, Spanish entertainer. 1967: Vladimir Llakaj, Albanian artist. 1968: Latitia Sadier, French vocalist, of the band Stereolab. 1970: Mariano Closs, Argentine games writer. 1970: Tristდ¡n Ulloa, Spanish entertainer and movie producer. 1970: Manuel Baldizდ³n, Guatemalan legislator. 1971: Chris Shiflett, American guitarist, of the band Foo Contenders. 1972: Martin Brodeur, Canadian hockey player. 1973: Juan დ?ngel Esparza, Mexican entertainer. 1976: Ivდ¡n de la Pena, Spanish footballer. 1977: Andrდ© Sa, Brazilian tennis player. 1980: Carlos Arano, Argentine soccer player. 1980: Dimitris Diamantidis, Greek b-ball player. 1980: Ricardo Oliveira, Brazilian soccer player. 1981: Imprint O'Connell, American drummer, of the band Reclaiming Sunday. 1981: Guglielmo Stendardo, Italian footballer. 1983: Dani Alves, Brazilian nationalized Spanish footballer. 1983: Adrianne Palicki, American entertainer. 1983: Gabourey Sidibe, American entertainer. 1984: Osvaldo de Leდ³n, Mexican entertainer. 1984: Juan Pablo Carrizo, Argentine goalkeeper. 1985: Chris Paul, American b-ball player. 1986: Roman Kreuziger, Czech cyclist. 1986: Goran Dragiე‡, Slovenian b-ball player. 1986: Manuel da Costa, Portuguese footballer brought into the world in France. 1987: Moon Geun Youthful, South Korean entertainer. 1987: Gerardo Parra, Venezuelan baseball player. 1988: Alexis Ajinდ§a, French b-ball player. 1989: Dominika Cibulkovდ¡, Slovak tennis player. 1990: Josდ© Altuve, Venezuelan baseball player. 1992: Baekhyun, South Korean vocalist, model, entertainer and artist. 1993: Dasom, South Korean vocalist, artist and entertainer.

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

人們把我掏空。我得離開去補充能量。

[macrolit]

I couldn’t get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed.

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) German-American author, poet

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

Pollen count, Zhong Lin 

但最終你做什麼都無所謂或者你是什麼 

因為不想要你的人會找藉口離開  

而想要你的人會找理由留下 

不顧一切 Ma alla fine non conta neanche quello che fai o ciò che sei. Perché chi non ti vuole troverà una scusa per andare e chi ti vuole troverà una scusa per restare. Indipendentemente da tutto. ─ Charles Bukowski 查理·布考斯基 (1920-1994)／德裔美國詩人，小說家和短篇小說家。He was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. 

[famousinuniverse]

Charles Bukowski

American poet and novelist

Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles.

Born: August 16, 1920, Andernach, Germany

Died: March 9, 1994, San Pedro Peninsula Hospital

Spouse: Linda Lee Beighle (m. 1985–1994), Barbara Bukowski (m. 1957–1959)

Children: Marina Louise Bukowski

Parents: Katharina Bukowski, Heinrich Bukowski

Movement: Dirty realism, transgressive fiction

“Too often, the only escape is sleep.”

— Charles Bukowski

[queerasfact]

Queer as Fiction

Queer as Fiction encompasses our podcast episodes talking about the intersection of queer history and media, whether that’s pieces of historical queer media, or modern media dealing with queer history.

All our episodes are gathered here in one place for you to check out!

Queer media from history

Pre-20th century

The Epic of Gilgamesh (c.1800BCE epic poem)

Achilles and Patroclus (figures from Greek myth)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th century English Arthurian poem)

Carmilla (Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 lesbian vampire novella)

1920s

The Captive (1926 English adaptation of Édouard Bourdet’s lesbian play La Prisonnière)

1930s

Mädchen in Uniform (1931 German lesbian schoolgirl cult classic film)

1940s

Wonder Woman (1941-1948 American comics)

1950s

The World Well Lost (Theodore Sturgeon’s 1953 sci-fi short story about gay aliens)

Giovanni’s Room (James Baldwin’s 1956 novel about an American expat in Paris)

1960s

Victim (1961 film focussing on Britain’s laws against homosexality)

The Boys in the Band (1968 play, 1970 film, and 2020 film about a group of gay men in New York)

1970s

Queerness in Tabletop Roleplaying Games (1970s onwards)

1980s

The Color Purple (Alice Walker’s 1982 epistolary novel on a queer, black woman in America’s south in the first half of the 20th century)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddie’s Revenge (1985 queer-coded slasher film)

Queerness in Videogames (discussion of 1989 queer game Caper in the Castro, 1988 trans Mario character Birdo, and World of Warcraft’s Pride parade begun in 2005)

1990s

Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingstone’s 1990 documentary about the New York drag ball scene)

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994 Australian roadtrip drag comedy)

The Birdcage (American director Mike Nichols' 1996 gay comedy film)

The Matrix (Wachowski sisters’ 1999 cyberpunk trans allegory)

Queer media about history

Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire (a discussion on the way  medieval fantasy interprets historical reality the 2011-2019 TV series and 1996-ongoing book series)

The Handmaiden and Fingersmith (Sarah Waters’ 2002 Victorian lesbian novel Fingersmith and its 2016 film adaptation, Park Chan-wook The Handmaiden set in Japanese-occupied Korea)

Achilles and Patroclus in modern media

Call Me By Your Name (2007 novel and 2017 film depicting a relationship between a teenage boy and an adult man in 1980s Italy)

Pride (2014 film about the 1980s UK activist group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners)

Tell It to the Bees (2019 film and 2009 book depicting a lesbian romance in 1950s Scotland)

Stonewall in the media (Roland Emmerich's 2015 film and Crissle West's 2016 Drunk History segment on the 1969 riots)

Bohemian Rhapsody, Colette, and Vita & Virginia (three queer films from 2018, covering the lives of Queen’s frontman Freddie Mercury, 19th-century French author Colette, and early 20th-century English writers Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf)

The Old Guard (2020 Netflix film featuring queer immortal mercenaries)

Interview with emily m danforth (interview with author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post about her 2020 book Plain Bad Heroines, described as Picnic at Hanging Rock meets The Blair Witch Project with lesbians)

Ma Rainey (episode on the 20th-century American blues singer Ma Rainey, featuring a discussion of the 2020 film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)

The Boys in the Band (1968 play, 1970 film, and 2020 film about a group of gay men in New York)

Our Flag Means Death (2022 comedy about pirates Edward “Blackbeard” Teach and Stede Bonnett)

A League of their Own (2023 TV show about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League)

Cassandro (2023 biopic of gay American-Mexican luchador Saúl Armendáriz)

Contemporary queer media

Neptune Frost (2021 Rwandan sci-fi musical)

[arcticdementor]

The devout and observant Christian is undoubtedly aware of the precarious state of the faith in our modern world and is becoming increasingly open to out-of-the-box solutions. One such possible solution is to take a cue from our bearded Amish neighbors and form rule-based religious communities—but maybe without the horse and buggy.

A brief peak at the current state of American Christianity should disabuse anybody of the notion that this is unnecessarily drastic.

America’s traditional Mainline Protestant denominations are bleeding out so quickly they will likely be gone within 20 years. That is not my prediction, but their own. The ELCA (the main Lutheran branch) projects they’ll only have 16,000 worshippers by 2041; the PCUSA (the main Presbyterian branch) lost almost 40% of their members in the last decade, causing one analyst to note, “At its current rate of shrinkage the PC(USA) will not exist in about 20 years;” and data for the Episcopal Church shows the same 20-year timeline until the denomination runs out of people in the pews.

More conservative denominations used to chuckle at these headlines and say, “If only they preached the Gospel instead of liberal activism, they’d be growing like us.” But they don’t say that anymore. The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest of the Evangelical churches, has lost 14% of their members since 2006; the Methodists are losing members while in the middle of a brutal split; and for Catholics, according to Bishop Robert Barron while speaking at the 2019 bishops’ annual conference, “Half the kids that we baptized and confirmed in the last 30 years are now ex-Catholics or unaffiliated.”

There is one major exception, though: the Amish—a mustard seed that is growing into a large tree in front of our eyes. The Amish arrived in the United States shortly after their founder, Jakob Ammann, split with the Mennonites in 1693 for being too lax on enforcing their communal rules, as laid out in the Dordrecht Confession of Faith. For the next 200 years, the Amish were just a few eccentric families in Pennsylvania that spoke an archaic Swiss German. By 1920, these few families had grown to 5,000 people and since then have doubled about every 15 to 20 years, including between 2000 and 2020 when they doubled to 351,000.

Unless something changes drastically within their culture, this doubling is projected to continue. One demographer, Lyman Stone, showed that at their current rate of growth, they will easily make up a majority of the United States in 200 years. This means the current moment may mark the halfway point between them arriving as a small band of friends and their inheriting the most powerful nation on the planet. They may seem like a backwards remnant of the past, but in reality, they will almost certainly play a major role in the future. This will become more evident after they soon dwarf more well-known churches like the Episcopalians and Lutherans.

…

So, when virtually all other Christian groups are seeing plummeting, or at best stagnant, numbers, why are the Amish seeing growth like this? The answers people typically give are that they have a very high birth rate and an over 90% retention rate. But that’s like saying someone is wealthy because they made a lot of money and then saved most of it. It begs the question—how? How do they have such large families—with 6 or 7 children per woman—while the country at large has a below-replacement rate of 1.6 children? And how are they able to keep all those children within their communities?

I believe it all comes down to one thing—the Code—or as the Amish call it, the Ordnung.

The Amish Ordnung is different in each community, but if it strays too far, other communities will no longer associate with that community; so there are limits. While outside observers will just see strict rules about hats and beards and technology use, the Amish see the glue that holds them together as a people.

It’s very important to realize that each rule is chosen as a group and with the goal of strengthening individual virtue (especially humility), family and community ties, and their faith.

As an example, most Amish communities don’t allow phones in their homes, but it’s not because they think phones are inherently evil and ban them completely. They often have shared phone booths at the end of the street to use when necessary and at their places of work. They just don’t have phones in the home because they believe it will take away from the purposes of a home—things like family bonding, chores, and recreation. Nobody who has sat in a room of family and friends all silently swiping at their phones can tell me their concern isn’t warranted.

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The success of this model was discussed by Eric Kaufmann, a political-demography scholar at the University of London, in his provocative 2010 book, Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-first Century. Kaufmann noted the growth of groups like the Amish and the Haredi Jews (often called the Ultra-Orthodox) and attributed it to their birth rates and strong communities. Haredi Jews, for example, who also live by strict community codes, were only a few percentage points of the Israeli schools in 1960 but are now about a third of students, and he predicts they will very soon eclipse secular Jews. Haredi growth in Brooklyn, New York, is seeing similar growth, with high birth rates and retention.

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Laurence R. Iannaccone’s 1994 study “Why Strict Churches Are Strong,” which has been frequently cited and confirmed since, gives more detail on the success of certain community codes.

Iannaconne found that groups can be strict on items as long as they provide a “close substitute.” Think, for example, of banning social media but then providing a lot of new in-person social opportunities to make up for that sacrifice.

“Strictness works,” he says, but the rules can’t be so strict they make people miserable and drive them away, or as Iannaconne says, “Arbitrary strictness will fail just as surely as excessive strictness.” The rules do have to be strong enough, though, to keep “free-riders” from claiming the benefits of the community without participating. He called these rules “costly signals,” like the sacrifices the Amish make by limiting their clothing styles and technology use. A person would be very unlikely to go through all of those costly steps for community benefits they could get more easily elsewhere. By eliminating free-riders—whose “mere presence dilutes a group’s resources, reducing the average level of participation, enthusiasm, energy, and the like”—they see the reverse, very high levels of participation, enthusiasm, and energy.

It’s not just Amish and Haredi Jews that have seen success with following a community code beyond the laws of the state—think of the monastics who survived in far-flung places relying on The Rule of St. Benedict; knights that followed the Codes of Chivalry; bands of cowboys on the American frontier who stuck close to the Code of the West, which gave detailed guidance on passing strangers on the trail, when to tip your hat, and with which hand you should hold your whiskey; and the tribes along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border who have followed the Pashtunwali code since pre-Islamic times.

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Modern Christians interested in starting a rule-based community would need to create some real benefits that are harder to come by in society at large. I’d suggest the basic benefits of a traditional community (help with childcare and schooling, coherent customs on dating and marriage, providing purpose and companionship to the elderly, cultural celebrations and gatherings, friendship, and assistance during hardship) would be plenty.

Then, they could agree together on some basic rules that are costly enough to separate the serious from the free-riders while not being arbitrary or unnecessarily strict. Targeting the rules toward areas that are particular downfalls for modern Americans (promiscuity, pornography, social media, screen-addiction, substance abuse) would be a good start. Agreeing to forego these in this time and culture would almost certainly be a costly enough signal.

Also, many of the rules should take into account issues like abuse of power, cults of personality, convenient personal revelations from God, sexual abuse, and a host of other issues inherent to tight-knit communities (and larger ones for that matter). The ability for a trusted leader to turn out to be an evil psychopath should never be underestimated, so rules should take that likelihood as a given and guard against it. The Amish, for example, draw straws to choose their leaders to avoid jockeying for power.

One last consideration is to what extent “walling yourself off from the modern world,” as Kaufmann said, is appropriate. Kaufmann said that was the best strategy for growth, but growth is not the only thing to weigh. There are also things like loving your neighbors, having an influence on the greater culture, and not stifling curiosity and creativity. Some walls are necessary, like between a teen boy and pornographic websites or between a child and an activist teacher, but a balance between walls and open spaces should be carefully pursued as a group. For example, language is used as a wall for the Amish (who speak Pennsylvania Dutch) and the Haredi Jews (who largely speak Yiddish), but that would likely be a step too far for most communities, as would their highly-detailed clothing restrictions.

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Out-of-the-box? Sure. But with the exponential growth of the Amish and similar rule-based communities (and our own failure to find a workable model for modern Christian life) it may be a paradigm to consider. Even without our participation, it will certainly be how a fair amount of future Christians will live.

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

若是有什麼東西以目的和慾望燃燒你的靈魂，你就有責任被它化成灰燼。而存在於任何其他形式的都將成為圖書館中生命的另一本乏味的書。

－ Henry Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) 他是一位德裔美國詩人、小說家和短篇小說家。 他的寫作受到他的第二故鄉洛杉磯的社會、文化和經濟氛圍的影響。 布考斯基的作品講述了美國窮人的日常生活、寫作行為、酒精、與女性的關係以及苦差事。 由於他在洛杉磯地下報紙《開放城市》上發表了《骯髒老人的筆記》專欄，聯邦調查局保留了他的檔案。He was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. Bukowski's work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column Notes of a Dirty Old Man in the LA underground newspaper Open City.

Christ this is good…

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 8.17

Beer Birthdays

Joy Campbell (1948)

Jennifer Garris (1971)

Shawn Connelly (1972)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Robert De Niro; actor (1943)

Maria McKee; pop singer (1964)

Colin Moulding; English singer-songwriter and bassist (1955)

Maureen O'Hara; Irish-American actor (1920)

Boog Powell; Baltimore Orioles 1B (1941)

Eric Schlosser; writer (1959)

Famous Birthdays

Francesco Albani; Italian painter (1578)

Luther Allison; blues guitarist and singer (1939)

T. J. Anderson; composer (1928)

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt; English poet (1840)

Sam Butera; saxophonist and bandleader (1927)

Belinda Carlisle; pop musician, singer (1958)

Larry Clinton; trumpet player and bandleader (1909)

Evan S. Connell; novelist, poet, and short story writer (1924)

Davy Crockett; explorer, frontiersman (1786)

Mirella Csikis (porn star; 1994)

Mark Dinning; pop singer (1933)

Sue Draheim; fiddler and composer (1949)

Henry Drummond; Scottish writer (1851)

Larry Ellison; Oracle billionaire (1944)

Julian Fellowes; English actor (1949)

Pierre de Fermat; French mathematician (1607)

Jonathan Franzen; writer (1959)

Marcus Garvey; Jamaican organizer (1887)

Georgia Gibbs; singer (1919)

Samuel Goldwyn; film producer (1879)

Leslie Groves; general and engineer (1896)

Jon Gruden; football coach (1963)

Sib Hashian; rock drummer (1949)

Ted Hughes; English poet (1930)

Richard Hunt; Muppet performer (1951)

Colin James; pop singer, songwriter (1964)

David Koresh; cult leader (1959)

Oliver Waterman Larkin; historian (1896)

Julia Marlowe; English-American actress (1865)

Herta Müller; Romanian-German poet and author (1953)

V.S. Naipaul; Trinidadian-English writer (1932)

Laurence Overmire; poet (1957)

Duke Pearson; pianist and composer (1932)

Sean Penn; actor (1960)

Rachel Pollack; author (1945)

Francis Gary Powers; pilot (1929)

Dave "Snaker" Ray; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1943)

John Matthew Rispoli; Maltese philosopher (1582)

Larry Rivers; painter and sculptor (1923)

Kevin Rowland; English rock musician (1953)

Jean-Jacques Sempé; French cartoonist (1932)

Gene Stratton-Porter; author (1863)

Gary Talley; guitarist and singer-songwriter (1947)

Guillermo Vilas; tennis player (1952)

Donnie Wahlberg; pop singer (1969)

Mae West; actor (1893)

Monty Woolley; actor (1888)

[fromthedust]

a selection of artworks by artists whose name begins with ‘A’

Ai Wei Wei (Chinese, b.1957) - Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola Logo - 1994

Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, 1901-1966) - Toute Petite Figurine (Very Small Figurine) - bronze & stone - c.1937-39

Andreas Feininger (American, 1906-1999) - Diver with Face Mask - photography - 1955

Andrew Goss (Canadian, b.1944) - Flying Concrete 1 - concrete, photo-image on laminated polyester - 5½”x 8″x 3½” - 2007

Adolph von Menzel (German, 1815-1905) - The Studio Wall - oil on canvas - 1872

Amadeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920) - Seated Female Nude - marble - 1913-1915

Alberto Viani (Italian, 1906-1989) - Nudo (Nude) - bronze - 1964

Agustin Fernandez (Cuban, 1928-2006) - oil painting - 1995

Anish Kapoor (Indian/British, b. 1954) - untitled - alabaster - 2005

Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) - Pin - gold and steel wire (a birthday gift to his wife Louisa) - 1958