Q: What would you compare AT THE HOUSE to?

A: Tom Russell's Hotwalker: Charles Bukowski & A Ballad for Gone America.

Also Tough Company: Featuring Letters and Interviews with Charles Bukowski.

I walked polo ponies when I was in the 6th grade.

The principal let me miss school if I'd bring her bags of horseshit for her roses.

Q: A lesson in How To Get Ahead in Business.

A: Yes. Also, General Trujillo, the Butcher of the Caribbean, was there, looking splendid in his uniform.

And Porfirio Rubirosa, who had a dick like a café au lait pepper mill.

The editor of the Delray Journal, Laura Britt, would ooh and aah over them and mention them in the society column.

Q: How To Succeed in Journalism.

A: I was reading Mad magazine.

I was listening to Stan Freberg records.