Bill Blackolive
1176 North McCampbell
Aransas Pass, Texas 78336

Dear Bill:

Glad you liked Bukowski Never Did This.

I have a brother, Bill, three years younger than me.

I used to pick on him until he whipped my ass. Then I never picked on him again.

We were close until my grandparents died. Then had a falling out over money. He was still drinking at the time, and I was sober, but not working any program, so my spirituality wasn't the best.

Last year at my mother's funeral we stayed drunk for a week and told stories about growing up. That was healing.

Then he came to Balder and Jennifer's wedding. We saw him then and he spent a night with us on the way home.

We patched things up.

I haven't read Joe Pachinko's Swamp. I ordered it and The Urinals of Hell from Amazon.com.

I also ordered Cindy Crabb's Doris: An Anthology, 1991 - 2001.

That's a long time to do a zine, and the 300-page book is impressive. I like it.

Micrososm Publishing said to order Doris from Amazon, it gave them credibility.

Jeff Potter said Amazon ordered five more copies of every title of mine he had, as if they were expecting a Jack Saunders boom.

Bukowski Never Did This is ranked 623,627.

A week ago it was a million, and a month ago it was unranked.

I don't know what to make of it, except that I am glad you can buy the book at Amazon, and Google has a link to Amazon, so it's still possible to buy an obscure book if you don't mind using the Internet.

I buy everything over the Internet. Don't leave my house.

Edvard Munch didn't leave his house the last six years. He died alone. When they came to get him the gate was rusted shut.

That's sad. I'm not that bad.

It's like Bukowski said. I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.

Jack Saunders
Garage Band Books
Box 10501
Panama City, FL 32404