“I AM ARTURO BANDINI!!”

 This was young Charles Bukowski’s battle cry, his Tarzan yodel letting all the predators and savages that prowl and skulk through the foliage of the literary jungle, as well as the world at large, that he was a person of note, a force to be reckoned with. By this announcement, he was informing the world …

Collecting Lives

I forget where I read it or heard about it, but there was some guy who claimed to have a collection of suicide notes. I don’t know how one goes about accumulating a selection of suicide notes, but he claimed to have done just that. Maybe he worked for his local police department or knew …