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11-17-2007, 02:38 PM #1
Joe Klein remembers Hunter Thompson
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/bo...w/Klein-t.html
"On July 3, Hunter Thompson joined us. Much of what ensued that holiday weekend is lost in the mists of history and a fog of controlled substances. There were extensive conversations about the viability of renting a truck, filling it with rats and dumping them on the White House lawn. There was also an effort to remove all the Andy Williams songs from the Kennedy jukebox and replace them with Otis Redding. "
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11-18-2007, 02:38 PM #2is not skiing
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that was an entertaining read. book critics love to go over the top though: "cascading skeins of hyperbolic invective"
slopstyle crosscarver junior
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04-26-2024, 01:13 PM #3
"Old age is a difficult concept for a perpetual adolescent."
Can you relate?
I've been picking through The Great Shark Hunt, and last night read this piece about 'Hashbury' and the Hippies. Originally published May 14th, 1967 in The New York Times.
It's available here...
https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...of-the-hippies
And here (text only, browser reader view helps)...
https://londonflowscreedinfo.wordpre...es-hst-1967-2/
And here, if you have a Times Subscription...
https://www.nytimes.com/1967/05/14/a...ry-is-the.html
Pretty interesting read, some almost 60 years on. And therein is mentioned Emmet Grogan, which led me to this, which is also interesting, and quite entertaining...
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
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04-26-2024, 02:27 PM #4man of ice
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Emmet Grogan wrote a really good book about his life called Ringolevio: A life played for keeps. He was an incredible guy and it's a really good book. There are some really crazy parallels between Grogan and Jim Carroll, I've always meant to look into that, but Ringolevio stands on its own.
edit: Ha, if you google "Jim Carroll Emmet Grogan parallels" the first result is me, in a thread on here, in 2008. And there's not much else. I guess I'm the only one who noticed it.
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04-26-2024, 07:53 PM #5Registered User
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I had The Great shark hunt, Fear & loathing in las vegas, Fear & loathing on the campagin trail and Hells angels, I gave them all to my financial consultant the last time i got married, we would ski/ get drunk and riff quotes of of each other
Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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04-26-2024, 08:43 PM #6
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04-27-2024, 11:06 AM #8Registered User
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04-27-2024, 12:14 PM #10
I like Joe Klein. A serviceable center who played in the league for 10 years or so. Kings drafted him ahead of Karl Malone.
Quando paramucho mi amore de felice carathon.
Mundo paparazzi mi amore cicce verdi parasol.
Questo abrigado tantamucho que canite carousel.
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04-28-2024, 12:10 PM #11
Steadman wanted to see some Kentucky Colonels, but he wasn’t sure what they looked like. I told him to go back to the clubhouse men’s rooms and look for men in white linen suits vomiting in the urinals. “They’ll usually have large brown whiskey stains on the fronts of their suits,” I said. “But watch the shoes, that’s the tip-off. Most of them manage to avoid vomiting on their own clothes, but they never miss their shoes.”
The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved
Last edited by fomofo; 04-29-2024 at 12:37 PM.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
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05-02-2024, 10:54 AM #12
In light of current events it might be interesting to revisit the 60's almost 60 years on with Dr. Thompson, ponder what has changed, and what hasn't.
The Nonstudent Left - Hunter S. Thompson - The Nation 1965
And although not the focus of the article, this little tidbit jumps off the page and slaps you right upside the head!
He lives, with three other nonstudents and two students, in a comfortable house on College Avenue, a few blocks from the campus. The $120-a-month rent is split six ways. There are three bedrooms, a kitchen and a big living room with a fireplace.The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
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05-02-2024, 12:12 PM #13Registered User
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Hunter lived in an SF apartment about a block from my house. It was during the time he was doing “research” working at the Mitchell Bros Strip Club
This is appropriately in the cement in front of his old building. None of the neighbors seem to know if it showed up after he left or it was something he did. By the age of the cement , it’s totally plausible it’s his own scrawl
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05-02-2024, 10:43 PM #14The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
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I thought it was pretty perfect casting !
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