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On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 2:29:25 PM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 2:24:13 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote: 
> > On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 1:59:49 PM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote: 
> > > On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 9:16:55 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote: 
> > > > Michael Pendragon wrote: 
> > > > 
> > > > > On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 2:43:06 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote: 
> > > > >> Michael Pendragon wrote: 
> > > > >> > Will Dockery wrote: 
> > > > > 
> > > > >> >> >> Circulation 10,000 copies a month for almost twenty years. 
> > > > >> >> >> My monthly column and poetry in every issue for nearly twenty years. 
> > > > >> > 
> > > > >> >> >> Again, who here can top that? 
> > > > >> > 
> > > > >> >> > Anyone who's had one poem published in a small press/indie *poetry* zine with a circulation of 100 copies. 
> > > > >> 
> > > > >> Again, you flatter yourself, and you glorify your small press days. I was involved in small press myself, and edited a poetry and art zine for years (which was listed in Poet's Market during the mid-1990s), so I know that scene well, also. 
> > > > > 
> > > > >> >> My poetry and column was published monthly at 10,000 copies per issue for nearly twenty years. 
> > > > >> >> 
> > > > >> >> In other words, I topped your lifetime circulation in one month. 
> > > > >> 
> > > > > 
> > > > > If you had 10K monthly readers 
> > > > Playgrounds Magazine had that circulation, every month for nearly twenty years, that's a fact. 
> > > > > you'd be more successful, and better known, than Bukowski. 
> > > > That's debatable, of course. 
> > > > > Mickey Rourke would have played you in a movie (or, perhaps Avery Schreiber). 
> > > > "Barfly" was a great movie, even though Bukowski didn't like it. 
> > > > 
> > > > Faye Dunaway as Buk's alcoholic girlfriend, another brilliant performance from one of my all-time favorite actresses. 
> > > > 
> > > > And so it goes. 
> > > The point remains that more people are familiar with Nick Cave than they are with Bukowski -- approximately 5x as many. 
> > > 
> > > Deal with it. 
> > You're mistaken.
> Google each. Look at the numbers. 

I did, and posted the results here on the group.

Charles Bukowski has many thousands more Google search hits than the relatively obscure Nick Cave's numbers.

Look it up.

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