On Bukowski & Buknatski

Yesterday would have been the 90th birthday of Charles Bukowski. Here’s a little memory of CB via The Rumpus.net: Click here. It’s apparently an unpublished forward to a book. Good read.

An excerpt:

“Bukowski, did you masturbate when you took a bath?”

“No.”

“Good, I won’t have to wash the tub.”

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Peter Buknatski, the poet laureate of Charlie O’s and an oh-so-goddamn-frequent-commenter at this site, got bitch-slapped by the ninny parade (aka: Green Mountain Daily) over the weekend for referring to President Obama as President Huxtable. As a result, the GMD Patriot Act was invoked and Buknatski’s privileges at the site were revoked. Don’t worry, Petey, you’re in good company since Snarky Boy isn’t allowed over there either.

Worse, GMD’s chief lunatic, Ed Garcia (aka: kestrel9000), erased all of Petey’s numerous poems, diaries, and comments from the site – everything. Take that, Petey!

While GMD insiders claim that Buknatski was banned because of his “racist” reference to Obama as Huxtable, Buknatski’s been dragging that lame – and kind of funny – reference to Obama out for months and months.

So what’s the real reason for the liberal site’s censorship? Well, Buknatski’s been needling the Democratic gubernatorial candidates in Vermont to provide their positions on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And, according to GMD insiders who spoke with me, it’s been annoying the site’s leaders.

Imagine that, having the audacity to demand that candidates for Vermont’s highest office provide public statements on their war positions? And, let’s not forget, along with being a governor, the winner will also be the commander-in-chief of our National Guard.

And so it goes in so-called liberal Vermont, where talking about the war is impolite and asking politicians to speak about it leads to censorship.

Shut up, and pass the Ben & Jerry’s!

Ah, I feel better already.