Blog of a Dirty Young Man on "Notes of a Dirty Old Man"

Charles Bukowski's excerpt from "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" describes his job as a gas pump attendant at an all-night gas station. Bukowski's style as he writes for the newspaper column seems to be a stream of consciousness writing style. He seems to write whatever comes to his mind and doesn't seem to worry about punctuation as much as he does to get his point across. He uses periods in his story but doesn't use capital letters after periods which makes me think that the periods are there more for when he takes a second to collect his thoughts and to write what happens next than to actually use them for the punctuation. Also, when he is writing, Bukowski uses all capital letters to show anger and emotion from his characters, as seen when the cabbie is yelling as him for all the soda being gone. Bukowski writes to blow off steam, to complain about something, or to just retell stories that has happened to him. Much like this excerpt from "The Portable Sixties Reader". 

Overall, I enjoyed Bukowski's excerpt. I like the fact that he wrote for the sake of writing and not because he was forced to do so. When he wrote, he didn't sugar coat anything thing that happened or leave anything out. Everything that happened, no matter how small or pointless, he would write about. I really enjoy stream of consciousness writing because it lets you see what exactly the writer is thinking.