Enjoy 'The Crazy Smile,' my latest entry onto the world of microflash fiction - stories told in just six sentences. One morning whil...

If good 'ol Chuck Buk ever went the screenplay route ala Fitzgerald, no doubt he woulda churned out this sort of 'Grindhouse' fa...

...You missed it back in early December. A definitive collection of Chuck Buk's poems are a must for any Bukowski enthusiast. ``THE PLEA...

Beer sales are known for being recession-resistant, but that isn't looking to be the case this time around. The London-based brewer behi...

My colleague, Jay Lustig just published his review for Bruce Springsteen's new disc "Working' On A Dream" and gave the di...

Yay for me! I just had my first piece accepted at Six Sentences , a nifty (and addicting) web site. Six Sentences (6S) is a webzine dedicat...

THE ardor among marketers for Barack Obama is intensifying with the approach of Inauguration Day, when, it seems, they intend to name him th...

Over here at Chuck Buk's Basement, we're all about creativity, the use of words, enjoying good booze and musings on the world throug...

Check out this tribute video - a short film directed by and starring Joel Vetsch, with actual narration from Bukowski himself reading his po...

I dunno... This item reads like a twisted Bukowski short story. Customers inside the fast-food restaurant taco Bell continued to order tacos...

So let's say you were a woman in the late '30s and you wanted to work for the Walt Disney Company in animation. Turned out chicks di...

Let's all ring in the New Year the proper way... Here's hoping everyone in The Basement has a prosperous, healthy and productive New...

We all know that Chuck Buk loved him some cheap hooch. In other words, beer. Lots of it. The cheaper the better. Found this on digg and jus...

Here's hoping your 'HOs' are plentiful.