Dear Levi Asher

[stilltrucking]

levi wrote

As for the old boards, I'm happy to tell you that I've moved them all to a brand new archive server, designed to be fast and error-free. Here it is, for all posterity: the permanent LitKicks Board Archive.

http://www.litkicks.com/LKBoardArchive/

thanks for the link to the archives but all I am getting is this:

Page Not Found
Please check the URL.

Posterity is not what it used to be I suppose.

I was looking for a five part series by Lenny called Limbo. . I thought Cecil would enjoy reading Lenny's stories. If they still exist out there in cyber space would you please send Cecil a link to them.

This is not a flame, it is a creative complaint. A request.

I finally located the stories board archive on this site

http://www.asheresque.com/BoardArchive/

But when I click on any of the individual links all I get is this again.

Page Not Found
Please check the URL.

I just don't have the heart to email you, so if you stumble on this please send Cecil a link.

You sure don't owe me anything
but I would be grateful if you would send that link.

[mtmynd]

Re: Lenny.

Yes, Levi... I'd really enjoy reading his work. Please take a moment and locate the link... maybe recruit Caryn or Jamelah to do it... I won't complain.

Thanking you in advance,

Cecil

[stilltrucking]

You reminded me of Lenny's story when you posted that link to Jesus the missing years in India. There is one chapter in Lenny's story where Jesus meets a Hindu holy man who takes him into a cave and there is a wall of moving images. I can't do it justice. I hope you get to read it.

I have not seen Lenny here for a long time. I think I asked him once to post the story here but he never did. I got it saved on a hard drive. But I have at least six hard drives. So far I have not been able to find it. If I do I will post it for your reading pleasure and damn the torpedos.

[mtmynd]

You continue to increase my hunger to read Lenny...

[mousey1]

May I take the opportunity to add my puny plaintive voice also to the mix?!? And say,

Hey, Levi, dude, dawg, homeboy, yes, YOU!, do it! Just do it! Cec's hunger is at an all time HIGH!





Pardon the interruption. Beg pardon. Hassah hassah.

[mtmynd]

ahhh, mouseyone.... you do understand the aching hunger of discovery well.

[mousey1]

Indeedy I do and still truckin' too!

[stilltrucking]

I am sorry but it might take a while to find it Cecil.

I think it is on one of these hard drives



There are about five or six more I may have to look through.

Speaking of lost treasures there is an action poetry poem that yabyum wrote to firecracker.

I bugged him for years to please re post it but he said that it was spontaneous prose and he did not save it.

The line that remembers me is this

"I know the location of every crumb of happiness that has fallen through the cracks."

I think there were like eight hundred thousand posts to litkicks. I don't know how much it costs brooklyn to maintain the archive but I for one would be more than willing to kick in a few bucks to help. That archive is a national treasure.

[mtmynd]

Levi's National Treasure. Them's mighty big words, mister.

If I had access and the time to go thru any of those archives, all this talk on this thread got me to thinking about a fellow's writing on Litkicks. No, I don't know this writer's name... it's been too long. But the content of his stories... it was undoubtedly some of the most honest writing one could read. But the down side, if you were to judge the content, bordered on the horrendous and perverted. Now normally I would shun any writing with that type of content... too scandalous, too weird, too sick.. yes, that's the word that stands out, 'sick'... but how this fellow could write like he did. That's what I found so intriguing. Like I said there was an honesty which made the writing that much more real... perverted, dark, even gruesome at times... he even wrote of homoeroticism in a not-so-loving manner, a subject better left alone for my tastes, but in this writers 'hand' it was powerful in a way I cannot describe easily, but somehow or another seemed to fit into the macabre stories. Uneasy, yes, but I had to finish each story he posted. Maybe this writer was influenced by Bret Easton Ellis ... I really don't know.

But here we are so many years having passed... maybe if I read one of those stories again I would be disillusioned. Maybe it remains in the past. He had so few responses and that should be a clue, at least to me. But I do know during those times his stories were riveting in a way no other stories had ever captured me. Despite the content, I reiterate, it was the honesty I could not ignore.

The damnedest stuff I ever read.

I'll fart thunderstorms if this writer's name was Lenny.

[judih]

i'm guessing, mtmynd, that you're speaking of 4 degrees/curt. he was and is something else. still writing. He's on myspace and sometimes wanders by this hallowed studio and even AC.

[mtmynd]

ah, judih. while writing that post you came to mind. i knew you were there on LK at the time and quite possibly read a piece or two of his. the name you gave here must be the fellow.

4degrees... curt. yes, the name curt does ring a bell.

tell me, judih... does he still write those ... those... the stories he did? I'd be surprised if he did only because I'd think that type of writing took a lot out of the writer. whew! such strange tales...

[stilltrucking]

Levi wrote:

I hope you'll go visit the LitKicks Board Archive in its new home,

I think they are in the Smithsonian now.


Oh well

I guess I could call 911 and tell them it is an emergency.

A McNuggets "Emergency"
Floridian called 911 three times over McDonald's chicken shortage
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/ye ... gget1.html

Here you go Cecil.

http://www.studioeight.tv/phpbb/viewtop ... ight=#6478

[judih]

hi still - answering cecil's question:
curt gave me a link to a spot where he posts his work and yes, erotica, in its exotica curt form is what he does.

lately with things over here being a little shaky, i haven't had the mindset to check it out, but somewhere there exists a link. i think probably his myspace page (sorry about the weird ads, still-t) has links.

[stilltrucking]

child molestation and anal rape are such interesting topics

I remember trying to write a haiku of all things about being molested as a child. Curt was pretty cool. He said I probably enjoyed it. I have always been a big fan of his ever since. I got one those brains that remembers and resents. One day I will get over it I am sure.

Shaky here too.

[judih]

shaky, shaky.
if it's calm, we must be sleeping - though dreams are shaky too