history

a history of this event. bukowski died. he seemed to welcome it. we partied. this is the third one. this year we raise $ for kids for writing and reading in rehab(s)



10 AM con murphys. irish coffee. poems. planning



12 noon first showing of BARFLY AT PIAZZA. drive by bukowski at ONEALS



430-545 FERGIES GIN MUSIC AND POETRY



500-900 SINGALONG at the SHAMROCK, t-shirts,
poetry


800-1000 INTERACTIVE BARFLY AT PIAZZA


1000-100 CHARLES BUKOWSKI BLUES PROJECT AT GUNNERS RUN!



THE REHAB IDEA

We now have one Rehab, with whom I will speak with sometime today if the cell phone co-operates. It's dyihng a slow death and that trip into that clockwise vortex of sludge the otherday did not help in its performance. It's a five year old nokia, sometimes referred to as a burner phone, favored by drugdealers for it's cheapness.

ANYWAY ABOUT THE REHABS.
LIAM the owner of CON MURPHY"S knows a guy who works at Rock Ministries who works with juveniles. That's good enough for me! I want to get them connexcted with some of the word people in this fair city. Like the word people who need money, these kids need help, why not combine the money with the helping and do something word related and wondrous? I say Rehabs plural just in case some of the other people I asked for help come thru. I got that Tom Sawyer thing down. Painting is FUN!

This event started with me talking shit to DREW LAZUR in a bar three years ago. It conitnues in conversations in bars to this day. Which is why, I suppose, FERGIE doesn't have a TV in his bar. Good things can happen when people aren't distracted by that babbling noise box in the corner that destroys coversations. BUKOWSKI has a lovely poem about how he walked out of a bar one day when they put a noisy box on the shelf that everyone stared at and destroyed drinking in bars for him and made him drink at home from that time on.