Comments on: Back Home in the Trash Desert

By: fin

fin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:46:34 +0000

Homeback is the name for home-made Heroin made from Codeine in nu zeeland in the 80s…i don’t know if they call it that where youse come from tho…

By: Anton Lucii

Anton Lucii — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:25:05 +0000

The picture of 2 non-white trios drawn by Dolan
is too harsh to my esthetic taste.
Felt myself in Californian hell for a second.

Still the scariest story about that state I heard is that Schwarzenegger’s governorship was predicted in 1980s by some Hollywood astrologist.

By: Nicolai Ceske

Nicolai Ceske — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:24:21 +0000

Fantastic writing. I was thinking of heading back to California recently. Thanks for reminding me of why I left and have stayed away for so many years.

By: rick

rick — Fri, 29 May 2009 04:53:58 +0000

Some Dolan archive would be nice.

http://www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth/vol2no3/dolan.html

That kind of shit is no joke, I’ve read that like 9 times, as compared to everything else in the world I’ve read 0 times.

I never did buy those Dolan poetry books, but that’s no joke either:

http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/seeingvoices/dolan.asp

I would buy those poetry books if I had money.

By: JN

JN — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:57:36 +0000

Beautiful piece.

By: totalesturns

totalesturns — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:32:28 +0000

@MQ, agreed. I’d pay more than $20 to read a book-length account of Dolan’s experiences in the SF punk scene and the Berkeley English department.

Off-topic, but I figure I’ll ask this in a Dolan thread where literary-minded eXholes will see it: is Frederick Seidel worth reading? I’ve been seeing press for his new Collected Poems and trying to figure out whether he’s genuine quality or just another Ivy League twat playing transgressive.

By: jonny.m

jonny.m — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:36:25 +0000

So not much has really changed, aside from the racial makeup of the place. Good to know. (I guess in some places, that *is* considered a major change.)

By: MQ

MQ — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:31:54 +0000

When are you publishing a followup to “Pleasant Hell”, John? I’d buy it for sure. You could fund it by advance subscription too, if a couple of hundred people pay $20 each then that’s a few thousand.

By: Wardrobe barber

Wardrobe barber — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:04:06 +0000

All due respect to Dolan. On the pictures he looks like a Celtic cuttroat not particularly old. Oh, yes and he is married or at least was.

I tried to cover myself in crow’s feces etc etc after reading Dolan’s article but it just doesn’t work. I am too much of a freak.

Freak might be a bit imprecise word here, may be sick.

Maybe not a kikе or a dyke or a mike or a T-pike. Or a snoop dog or a rapper of melanctonese variety.
Something of the sort.

By: Homer Erotic

Homer Erotic — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:21:17 +0000

According to the Urban Dictionary website, Dolan’s first guess about the meaning of the word “homebake” was more or less correct.