Recent Keywords that landed people on The Brothel (Hello!)

TLB

Even though they're more like key "phrases" than key "words," the following are the top ten in the past month.

1. Quotes from Glee Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) is single-handedly keeping our site alive.

2. Gayest Sports Well, we ARE in football season. (Zing!)

3. Vodka Taste Test 2008 [Snaps fingers] We need to send out invites for the Great Tequila Taste Test of 2009. Thanks for the reminder.

4. Best Bukowski Quotes The Brothel used to thrive on Bukowski quotes. Now? It's all about WHGR. (What hath Glee wrought?)

5. Film Review Submission Yes, we accept movies for review. Shoot us an email then shoot us your movie. Then DON'T shoot when we give it a negative review.

6. Youtube Names If you can't devise your own YouTube name, well, perhaps the "you" in YouTube is not referring to you.

7. Best Youtube Names What's with all the YouTube name interest? Oh that's right, you need an account to watch Sarah Palin mashups and name-call in the comment section.

8. Petco Controversy If there's ever a REAL controversy at Petco, our site is gonna be huge.

9. Brothel Names They usually have "massage" in the name.

10. Brothel Tube We don't even want to know.

-TLB

The Best Bukowski Quotes

are here on The Literary Brothel.

I'm not sure why.

Oh yeah, because we're fans.

Here's the page you can see them all: Bukowski Quotes on The Literary Brothel

You're welcome, Bukowski fans.

And check back for more.

Seriously.

-TLB

Bukowski on Control

"On some days there is total control, you drive the freeways better, you do everything better. Then the other days arrive when you even fear the check-out girl in the supermarket."

-Charles Bukowski, 1979

Bukowski on Gardening

"I dig in the old garden a bit now and then. The neighbors like it when they see me doing that. A man working in his garden is not a dangerous man (they think). They've heard some wild screaming nights over here when I've gone mad on wine and run about the house naked, up and down the stairs, falling, cursing and all that. They prefer me in the garden."

-Charles Bukowski
April, 1979

Bukowski on Short Stories

"I think the best idea is to write them the way you want to write them, then look for a market. the deliberate slant automatically takes the juice out."

-Charles Bukowski to A. D. Winans
November 2, 1976

Bukowski on 98% of Movies

"...millions of dollars spent to create something more terrible than the actual lives of most living things; one should never have to pay an admission to hell."

-Charles Bukowski, 1992

Charles Bukowski on Writing

What? Another Bukowski quote? When are you going to write something, Klaus!?!

Never fear, a little something is coming tomorrow, and a little "something something" is coming on Monday. Stay tuned... -KV

Bukowski on "How to Become a Good Writer"

"The problem with being a poet is that by the time you get well-known you can't write anymore. or, at least, not as well, but, still, being young & unknown isn't the answer either. a lot of them grin out machine-made shit that they think is very real only because they like it. then, they quit. to become a good writer takes time & luck & moxie & no special desire to be a good writer."

-Charles Bukowski to Douglas Blazek, January 15th, 1968

Another Quote from Charles Bukowski

Another Quote from Bukowski. Because people like reading them. -KV

"all I need now is 60 days in jail or 10 years, and my whole thought process will be realigned. everything happens for the best and the worst, like when Marina was first born, the line popped into my head, 'she will probably be fucked by a sailor who never read Walter De La Mare.' that was then. now, I think, so what?"

-Charles Bukowski, Letter to John William Corrington, January 3, 1968

Another Quote from Bukowski

"shit, it would be sweet to get paid to write! to just sit here and bang bang bang, and get paid to do what I have to do anyhow - like getting paid to shit or fuck, what? too much but worth a try. and prob. will not happen."

-Charles Bukowski, June, 1967. From Charles Bukowski, Selected Letters, Volume 2: 1965-1970.

Bukowski Quotes vs. Charles Bukowski Quotes

Klaus Varley

While searches for both "bukowski quotes" and "charles bukowski quotes" land a number of visitors on The Literary Brothel, the visitors for each search are quite different.

According to Google Analytics, those who simply input "bukowski quotes" spend an average of nineteen seconds on the site while searchers for "charles bukowski quotes" average but five seconds. That's less than one third of the time. There might even be an exact measurement of the relationship, but no one can figure it out. (You say you can, and that relationship is 5:18? Thank you very much, Ms. Smarty-Pants Fourth Grader)

So why the disparity in average site visit time for people who seem to be searching for the same thing? There can only be one logical explanation:

1. After writing the laborious keywords "charles bukowski quotes," one is so tuckered out by the strain of typing that when they land on a smattering of quotes on a site called The Literary Brothel they are none too impressed. "I wanted ALL Bukowski quotes, dammit, that's why I typed his FULL name," they think, as they quickly navigate away to a more informative site."

Of course, there might be other reasons.

But probably not.

Mystery solved.

I'm off to surf the web...I mean, er, do "research."

-KV