Hunter S Thompson

[Krusher]

A quote from Hunter S Thompson.
"Yeah, we rocked the vote all right. Those little bastards betrayed us again."


This reminds me of the guys at work who are under the age of 25.  All of them talked smack about voting but only one of them did.

[1K0N]

Fear and Loathing should be required reading to understand Liberal roots of the 60's movement...Hunter is thier prophet and Mentor!

IKON

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Krusher
A quote from Hunter S Thompson.
"Yeah, we rocked the vote all right. Those little bastards betrayed us again."


This reminds me of the guys at work who are under the age of 25.  All of them talked smack about voting but only one of them did.

Noticed the same thing.

Looks like a new saying is in order.

"Never trust anyone UNDER 30"

[Nash]

Originally posted by 1K0N
Fear and Loathing should be required reading to understand Liberal roots of the 60's movement...Hunter is thier prophet and Mentor!

IKON

He sure is to me.

Hey  Krusher, where'd ya get that? I'd like to read the rest.

[Lizking]

The good doctor, besotted and suffering from a severe bout of electoral dysfunction, gives us his exalted but muddled opinion while eating his evening breakfast still wearing jammies, comfy in his recliner. The sycophants gather, and suck his toes, while his day nurse prepares his {legal} daily regimen of pills.

His Gonzo has devolved into Geritol.




http://www.aspendailynews.com/Search_Articles/view_search_article.cfm?OrderNumber=9156

[Nash]

He's seen it before....

"I don't mean to pop the bad news on you Bubba but John Kerry is getting beat just like George McGovern did in 1972 — or worse," Thompson proclaimed to his nephew well before the news networks gave any hint that Bush Nation was marching toward a second term. "The tide turned so quickly it was difficult to breathe."

I don't think Geritol is his style. He may be in his pyjamas, but it's 3 AM and he's outside shooting anything that moves.

Thanks for the link Liz!

He's one of the few writers that I have to read his stuff within the confines of my own home. I've tried reading it elsewhere, and what innevitably results is a whole host of people looking at you funny while yer crouched in the fetal position, laughing your bellybutton off somewhere where it just aint cool to be in the fetal position laughing your bellybutton off.

[lazs2]

I allways got a kick out of his books.   other than his talent tho... there is nothing about him that is in the least worth aspiring to or even saving.  

a line from a Randy Neuman song pegged hunter (although not about him specificly)  "takes a whole lot of medicine baby for me to pretend that I'm somebody else"

song is called "guilty" I think.   When I was an addict I could wallow in the song and in hunters work... now I can use it to understand myself better.    maybe.

lazs

[DoKGonZo]

Hunter's pre-election piece in Rolling Stone is here.

He's not quite as edgy as he used to was, but I'll still take him over just about any other national affairs editor any damn day.

[lazs2]

wow.. do you even believe half of that ramble of hunters?   The picture of Bush as the winner by dirty tricks and media manipultion and the democrats as victims is especially amusing... hunter has lost it even more than I suspected.

lazs

[DoKGonZo]

Originally posted by lazs2
wow.. do you even believe half of that ramble of hunters?   The picture of Bush as the winner by dirty tricks and media manipultion and the democrats as victims is especially amusing... hunter has lost it even more than I suspected.

Actually a lot of it does ring true to me.

But, hey, I'm used to reception any dissenting view gets in this BBS.

[lazs2]

ahhh... poor gonzo!  for someone who idolizes the personal attack style of hunter you are sure sensitive eh?

hey.. the guy is a besotted attack dog who sees things in a delusional manner.   His post is the absolute best example of someone who can't see any disenting view... he is totally incapable and anyone who looks at anything he says as more than background color is as delusional as he is.

lazs

[Claw]

Who is he and why should I care?

Claw:rolleyes:

[DoKGonZo]

Originally posted by lazs2
ahhh... poor gonzo!  for someone who idolizes the personal attack style of hunter you are sure sensitive eh?

...

And you sure only read what you want to read to support your prejudicial, narrow-minded view of the world.

[Lizking]

I have always been a fan of the Doctor, a big fan, in fact.  However, toto has grasped the curtain firmly in his little mouth, and the man pulling the levers is not the man on the throne, by any stretch of the imagination.

He is a worn out husk of an intellect, too comfortable in his cliched idiosyncrasies to have an intelligent thought on the rigors of the news day.  Some people really should die before they grow old, at least from a literary standpoint.

[DoKGonZo]

I agree he isn't what he once was ... but its clear his love of Politics and understanding of the gut-level vitriol that feets the Engine is still there.