| recent comments mjp said: I'm, uh, working on it. Right now. ~ Fly me to the moon, then blow that shit up! shane said: michael phillips,you are a fuckin madman,post yer next story... ~ Fly me to the moon, then blow that shit up! mjp said: Yes, that is a potential problem for people in 10,001. I often worry about... ~ Doctor, it hurts when I move my arm like this... damian said: indeed. ~ Doctor, it hurts when I move my arm like this... Scott h Florance said: The Christians believe Jesus Christ tis immortal and he lives forever. It is... ~ Doctor, it hurts when I move my arm like this... mjp said: Isn't there a NASCAR or gun or fishing or tabakky-chewing site you can go... ~ I can see for miles, but it's kind of blurry up ahead Andrew Olin Jones said: Hillbilly said you might turn off the smog but I don't want you to do that... ~ I can see for miles, but it's kind of blurry up ahead mjp said: My childhood box? I don't think anyone wants to open that... ~ Fly me to the moon, then blow that shit up!   previous ramblings • I can see for miles, but it's kind of blurry up ahead 2.18.08 • Simple is as simple does 1.31.08 • I feel the earthworms under my feet 1.22.08 • New boots and panties 1.19.08 • I haven't given up, I've just stopped trying 12.25.07 • I don't pray. 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Since starting the blog my "real" writing has dropped off to a tiny fraction of what it had been. In the past, if something was pissing me off, I wrote a poem, if something happened to me, I wrote a poem...you get the picture. I communicated through the poems. Now I communicate through the blog, and that's great for what it is, but it's not something you can send off to the University of Knobshead to publish in their literary journal.  Then again, way more people read this than the University of Knobshead literary journal, so maybe I'm moving backwards. Why abandon a daily audience of 1300 to 1500 people for a potential audience of, I don't know, some stingy handful every day. I don't know. There's something about ink on paper. There's something about these twelve year old magazines on my shelf with my ridiculous stories or poems in them...they will still be there in twelve more years, while the words on this site will be long gone. Anyway, this is just a little heads-up that the end of smog may be near. At least the end of it as it is, and as it has been. I'm surprised anyone still comes here anyway. It's been almost two years since the site was gutted, and I moved the Bukowski stuff over to bukowski.net at the beginning of the year...so why are you still here? I don't know what smog will become. Maybe it will stay as it is, and I'll keep posting blog entries. I don't know. I don't know. That's the main thing. on Wednesday, March 22nd 2006 at 1:03am, Rose said: Neither do I. That's what everyone says: I don't know. When do we really know about anything? on Wednesday, March 22nd 2006 at 3:20am, mjp said: Never, I suspect. on Friday, March 24th 2006 at 11:16am, chosha said: So post the poems. :) Okay maybe not. But at least let us know where they got published! on Friday, March 24th 2006 at 2:21pm, jordanz said: precious gem #3884: i hear you on the point of writing less poetry. since i started posting daily on my site, poem writing seems to have deteriorated. buuut i've never been published and only have a couple hundred website readers. shuffle on, shuffle on. on Friday, March 24th 2006 at 10:43pm, mjp said: Maybe I've struck a good balance...still posting them, just posting less. The latest five rather than the latest twelve. on Friday, March 31st 2006 at 9:11pm, Lisa-RC said: Call me a slowpoke, but I just found you. on Saturday, April 1st 2006 at 2:36am, mjp said: slowpoke. on Wednesday, April 12th 2006 at 11:16am, carol es said: maybe keeping the blog up every now and again will keep your wheels oiled and the words flowing? sometimes that's all my stupid blog is good for. what about carving out your poem time somewheres else - like forum posting or tv? on Thursday, April 13th 2006 at 12:54am, Hillbilly Jones said: Write it all. Stories, poems, blogs, draw little pictures while waiting in your doctor's office. Especially the poems. Sometimes poems are more honest than a well-thought out blog. Thinking turns into polishing which usually goes in the direction of where we want to be; not to where we really are. Write. Just eat half as long and tie your shoes quicker to make up for the time. on Thursday, April 13th 2006 at 1:19am, Hillbilly Jones said: Hillbilly minds want to know: What exactly are the games that successful people have to play? If one can't communicate verbally along the food chain there's rarely a high degree of success but enough to pay cash as you go for everything, except a home. I, Hillbilly Jones, wore the monkey suit for more than 20 years but all I had to relingquish were the dreams I had when I was 21. And when I think about it, some have come true while the ones that didn't don't bother me anymore. Well, except for a dream named Jane; and she came back 20 years later in my forties and gave me some pussy again. So, there ya go! on Saturday, April 15th 2006 at 7:42pm, Laurent from France said: What is a slowpoke ? A slow Mr SPOKE ? 02:41 AM France on Saturday, April 22nd 2006 at 8:30pm, Hillbilly Jones said: Have guest writers. That will take give you more time for real writing. Post a new piece written by a guest writer every, uh, I don't know, every two weeks. That'll keep 'em coming in, drinking their fill, and staying until the band quits. You know writers and other artists, who could fill in the gap. If not, use the web to solict a guest writer. You'll probably end up on Larry King wearing a Buk tee shirt with the pic of him sitting on a toliet. And then The Ellen Show. Same tee shirt. And then Oprah will get jealouis and will just have to have you. You can jump up and down on her couch and proclaim your love for C.B. There ya go, friend, problem solved. ***THE CROWD ROARS on Monday, April 24th 2006 at 10:12am, mjp said: Guest writers? Oh sweet jeeeezus, no. You must not have been around during the public blog days, but it didn't quite pan out as I'd hoped. There were a lot of interesting dorks and weirdos posting (and that's not an insult, it's a compliment), but then there were a lot of tweedly university twats as well, who made me consider suicide, or at least murder. No, I think I'll pass on guest writers. I've been down that road and I'm only now beginning to recover. This is my own personal empire of garbage. I built it, and I prefer the responsibility for the stink to be on my shoulders. I'm stingy like that. on Monday, April 24th 2006 at 2:53pm, Hillbilly Jones said: Guest writers but let them hang themselves. All you have to do is stop in once and while and tell the troops the Calvery is on their way. I visited the old site a few times. Cracked me up at the visitor comments on the right side of the page. I had no idea Richard Nixon visited your site so often. Sell posters of Britney Spears blowing Neil Young sitting on a Harley with a cartoon quote coming from her which says, "Oop!...I did it again." That would help pay for the site and just think about the repeat orders when tsunami waves ruin the others. Larry King's gonna be disappointed. He was gonna wear a purple tie and pink suspenders that night and admit to a sexual attraction to Michael. Dang it! Don't just let any yahoo be a guest writer. And have him or her write for 4 weeks in a row. That way, you'll only have to fuck with it once a month. on Monday, April 24th 2006 at 10:11pm, damian said: interesting dorks and weirdos....heh heh...i heart mjp. on Tuesday, April 25th 2006 at 11:12am, Melissa Sue said: Mr. Jones could be considered a guest writer already. I know I sometimes stop by just to see his posts. I'm still trying to figure if he's a dork, wierdo or twat ~ for now i'll just say he's interesting. on Tuesday, April 25th 2006 at 10:16pm, Hillbilly Jones said: Ain't never been called a TWAT, so I feel sorta special and precious now. Lil Melissa Sue you sure are a good artist young lil lady and I hope gold falls into your pockets before you're forty. Me and Mrs. Jones don't know what yer captive audience is on this site but it'd be a dang shame to throw it away like half of a banana cream milk shake that you put in the freezor thirty minutes ago and then waiting for three days to slurp on it. Slurp now! And slurp some more.! And most importantly, use your tongue! on Tuesday, April 25th 2006 at 10:51pm, Hillbilly Jones said: One thing I remember about the old site was your responses to your hate mail. Your responses were some of the funniest writing I've ever read. I hee hawed over them. It was better than when my cousin gave me squirrel shots when I was about ten. Well, not really. I wish you'd publish those again. Will you? Do it for o'l Hillbilly. O'l Hillbilly ain't gonna be around forever, ya know. on Wednesday, April 26th 2006 at 3:04pm, mjp said: I'm afraid I don't get much hate mail anymore. Besides, the "publishing your hate mail" thing is kind of played out. I've seen it in too many places. If that changes and some religious right types get on me again I'll be sure to give them the attention they deserve. Until then, it's just this. It's all I've got. on Wednesday, April 26th 2006 at 8:57pm, Hillbilly Jones said: I didn't figure you for a dude who cared if something had "played out." Hmmmm. ***spits Your responses to the hate mail were funnier than funny. It takes a lot to make me puke laughing; but you did it. I vomited everytime I read that stuff and then I kept coming back just to read your responses again. Just thinking about it is making me hilariously queasy. on Friday, April 28th 2006 at 10:59am, mjp said: I'm glad I could make you vomit! My work here is done. on Monday, April 7th 2008 at 9:55pm, hoochmonkey9 said: glad you didn't shut down completely here. and if i can talk about myself for a second here (what else is new), a while back I swore off bukowski.net. I even made a post saying goodbye (which I regret now, if you're going, just go. but I was young and foolish, 37 and fancy free). the reason I left was the similar to the reason you considered shutting down your blog here. I would post a comment and sit on the computer waiting to see if someone answered, or just read new posts by other people. all that time could have been spent by writing poems or stories or reading or watching movies or masturbating or whatever. but I struck a balance, and went back to buknet, and I'm glad I did. personal moment over. carry on. on Tuesday, April 8th 2008 at 6:49pm, mjp said: bukowski.net is different, it isn't just one person pissing into the wind. It's hundreds. Much more messy and much more interesting. And I learn something new every day over there. on Wednesday, April 9th 2008 at 6:09pm, hoochmonkey9 said: true. they a certain 'just wanking for wankings sake' vibe to a blog (I'm including myself in this group). buknet has a definite co op feel, which is very nice. although before I started on the forum there, I was not really a collector, just a reader. I had a lot of Buk stuff, but none of it was really rare (unless I got a lucky bargain). the only thing hat was important were the words. I didn't care if it was signed or lettered or what have you. but since the forum? I'm splashing cash around like a 3 year old in a puddle. on Wednesday, April 9th 2008 at 6:17pm, hoochmonkey9 said: sorry for all the typos.... "they a certain" should read "there is a certain" "the only thing hat" should read "the only thing that". I really should proof before I post. smog.blog powered by buddy V2.0 |