{"product_id":"open-city-no-47-mar-22-28-1968-bukowski-notes-tiny-tim-jefferson-airplane-buffalo-springfield-canned-heat","title":"OPEN CITY No. 47, Mar. 22–28, 1968 — Bukowski Notes, Tiny Tim, Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield, Canned Heat","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn issue of the Los Angeles underground weekly in the full broadsheet format, featuring Charles Bukowski's \"Notes of a Dirty Old Man.\" The column opens in a bookstore where Bukowski meets a woman in a short tight skirt and high heels whose eyes seem to reach into a deep flash of darkness — he is drawn to her immediately, and they end up at the bar next door. Their courtship lasts three weeks before she tells him she doesn't love him, only feels that she must marry him. He says \"o.k., sweetums.\" She loses the short skirt and high heels and takes to a long red corduroy gown down to her ankles, talks to spiders and bugs, keeps the house badly, and turns out to be a fulltime maid named Felicia. A demon, she says, visits her in two forms — a cat's body with a man's face, and a man's body with a cat's face — and she smears mirrors with ointment and screams. They have a child. Bukowski sneaks a psychiatrist into the house who commits her; she speaks brilliantly in her own defense, confuses two court physicians, and the judge dismisses the hearing. He drives her home to her filthy red gown. Meanwhile a man named Final Benson — close to 350 pounds, claims to have been on the land all his life — arrives and moves into the spare rooms. One night Bukowski hears terrible moans from those rooms and slips out to find Yevonna gone in the morning. He packs it all in, takes Felicia and the child to Los Angeles, rents a motel room, buys a fifth of whiskey, and is awakened by Felicia's voice quoting scripture at him — the column breaking off, continued on page 14.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe front cover is given over entirely to a mock wanted poster naming an LAPD officer for the murder of Brother Gregory Clark. Interior includes a full-page feature on Tiny Tim at the height of his notoriety. The back cover listings include Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield and Canned Heat at the Kaleidoscope. Large tabloid format, 17\" x 11\", black and white throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eProvenance: Mailing label on front cover addressed to John Bryan Sr., father of Open City editor John Bryan, and a newspaper man himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis copy has an even fold but the page edges have some small tears. Paper shows some toning and light browning along the edges.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Buk Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47898100695205,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/9288\/1573\/files\/20260608_153146_-_Copy.jpg?v=1781011601","url":"https:\/\/thebukshop.com\/products\/open-city-no-47-mar-22-28-1968-bukowski-notes-tiny-tim-jefferson-airplane-buffalo-springfield-canned-heat","provider":"The Buk Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}