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death from above
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Ody
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' just listened to the report on NPR.
they say Johnny Depp contributed 2.5 mil. toward the bash. |
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whatthefunk
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Dan The Chainsawman
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| I bet the Hell's Angels were not invited. |
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whatthefunk
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| I bet the Hell's Angels were not invited. |
hahaha! i bet not! that was a great book! |
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Flossie
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Location: Up to my nose in the sweet summer smells of sewerage in Seoul
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| scuse my ignorance, but who is he? why is he famous? |
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Ya-ta Boy
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Location: Established in 1994
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| scuse my ignorance, but who is he? why is he famous? |
Early on in his career Hunter S wrote a book about the Hell's Angels. In the 70's he wrote 'gonzo journalism', mostly for Rolling Stone. Published a few books, most notably 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' and 'F and L on the Campaign Trail'. That style is mainly noted for claiming he and the people he was writing about were always drunk and stoned on a variety of drugs. It was fairly shocking in the 70's to say that in print. A lot of people were impressed with gonzo. I don't know why. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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��I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity
to anyone, but they've always worked for me.��
For his funeral, they cheated- sort of- he wanted a 150' high canon and they put a regular canon on a 150' tower... |
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natemk
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
Location: center field
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| You know you've been in Korea too long when you didn't know that one of your favorite authors has died. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Hey, we had a thread or 2 about it here!
And you'd be amazed at what you can learn from GOOGLE NEWS, and it works in Korea.
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Bulsajo
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| A lot of people were impressed with gonzo. I don't know why. |
He always made me laugh. He started as a 'serious journalist' and wrote some pretty interesting articles in the 50's and early 60's. I think some of the early articles are in The Great Shark Hunt. He was covering politics in Latin America. And then at some point just said "to Hell with it, *beep* you" to 'real' journalism. He was freak, a sensationalist, an exaggerator, a liar perhaps, whatever- he was a great writer too. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| He always made me laugh. |
I have friends who just rave about how funny H.S. Thompson was. My reply was, "Then I have to question either your sense of humor or your sanity. You choose."
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Bulsajo
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I have friends who just rave about how funny H.S. Thompson was. My reply was, "Then I have to question either your sense of humor or your sanity. You choose."
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Why choose? The answer is obvious: question both! |
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panthermodern
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Taxronto
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A word to the wise is infuriating.
Hunter S. Thompson
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Hunter S. Thompson
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Hunter S. Thompson
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Hunter S. Thompson
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
Hunter S. Thompson
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.
Hunter S. Thompson
That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
Hunter S. Thompson
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
Hunter S. Thompson
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Hunter S. Thompson
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
Hunter S. Thompson
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Hunter S. Thompson
There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Hunter S. Thompson
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. Thompson
You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Hunter S. Thompson |
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animalbirdfish
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| He always made me laugh. |
I have friends who just rave about how funny H.S. Thompson was. My reply was, "Then I have to question either your sense of humor or your sanity. You choose."
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I never thought of him as a humorist, but rather one of the most serious writers in the trade. Beyond that, he was one of the sharpest writers in the English language. There was nothing shoddy or loose about his writing, especially the pre-1980 catalogue. |
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