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Nov. 17th, 2008 10:29 amHunter S. Thompson once delivered a raving sermon to a sleeping hotel based on this Chick tract.
The Doctor predicts the future
Nov. 9th, 2008 10:13 pmHunter S. Thompson, writing in January 1974, speculated that Nixon might have an evil plan up his sleeve to avoid impeachment: a treaty with Russia to get its support of "an American invasion, seizure and terminal occupation of all oil-producing countries in the Middle East," solving both the energy crisis and unemployment via the draft. "... it would also crank up the economy to a war-time level and give the Federal Government unlimited 'emergency powers'." Then, posits Thompson, Russia and the US would cooperate in "a 'preemptive nuclear strike' against targets in China."
You can never be absolutely sure that HST is being completely serious, and in any case, Nixon resigned that August. But there are echoes of recent events there which gave me the creeps.
You can never be absolutely sure that HST is being completely serious, and in any case, Nixon resigned that August. But there are echoes of recent events there which gave me the creeps.
Books read, 2007
Dec. 31st, 2007 09:59 pmTags:
- australia,
- book-mucking,
- books read/bought/borrowed,
- comics,
- feminist science fiction,
- homer sexuality,
- it's the mind: chess and crosswords etc,
- melanin,
- religion,
- religion: tehology,
- religion: the view from babylon,
- science fiction,
- tv: top gear apparently,
- words words words,
- writers: george orwell,
- writers: hunter s. thompson,
- writers: niall griffiths
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Dec. 26th, 2007 07:14 pm"With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree."
- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
More from the Doctor
Sep. 5th, 2007 10:59 am"Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.
"I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. A new high-end Cadillic will go ten or fifteen miles faster if you give it a full dose of 'Carmelita'."
- Hunter S. Thompson
When HST is in his pursuing justice mode, he reminds me of Xanthian; when he goes off into one of his mad pseudo-autobiographical stories about drugs and crime, he reminds me of Jerry Cornelius.
"I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. A new high-end Cadillic will go ten or fifteen miles faster if you give it a full dose of 'Carmelita'."
- Hunter S. Thompson
When HST is in his pursuing justice mode, he reminds me of Xanthian; when he goes off into one of his mad pseudo-autobiographical stories about drugs and crime, he reminds me of Jerry Cornelius.
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Aug. 22nd, 2007 10:46 am"The journey home started to get strange when, during climb-out, with the plane aimed at the sun at a forty-five degree angle, Hunter clawed his way to the forward first-class head. Even though the cabin was full of United personnel, nobody said anything. Maybe it was because, just prior to this walk, Hunter let out a thirty-second, two-octave, head-splitting rebel yell. 'Just what people like to hear during takeoff,' he said."
- Bob Braudis, in Kingdom of Fear, Hunter S. Thompson's quasi-autobiography
- Bob Braudis, in Kingdom of Fear, Hunter S. Thompson's quasi-autobiography
Pollie tix
Oct. 25th, 2004 07:26 pmThe US of A
As you remember (like the voiceover says in Lost in Space, Maryland Comptroller William Donald Schaefer called for a public registry of HIV positive citizens. He has now, er, adjusted his position. He now claims he said that only someone who intentionally infects someone else should be registered. (If it's illegal in Maryland to knowingly pass on the virus, then their HIV status already would be public.)
Hunter S. Thompson pours kerosene over the election campaign, sets it alight, and lights his cigar with it.
The Orwell administration lets its mask slip, from the Needlenose blog.
Horse Trailer
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ashamel, a great opinion piece by Carmen Lawrence: Democracy is failing if the majority are alienated from politics.
Australia's first Iraq casualties: Three Australians injured in Baghdad blast.
You know the gag rule - the Bush administration's refusal to provide foreign aid to any women's health organisation which so much as mentions abortion? Australia has one too. That means more poverty, disease, death - and more abortions. More on this as I pull the facts together.
As you remember (like the voiceover says in Lost in Space, Maryland Comptroller William Donald Schaefer called for a public registry of HIV positive citizens. He has now, er, adjusted his position. He now claims he said that only someone who intentionally infects someone else should be registered. (If it's illegal in Maryland to knowingly pass on the virus, then their HIV status already would be public.)
Hunter S. Thompson pours kerosene over the election campaign, sets it alight, and lights his cigar with it.
The Orwell administration lets its mask slip, from the Needlenose blog.
Horse Trailer
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ashamel, a great opinion piece by Carmen Lawrence: Democracy is failing if the majority are alienated from politics.Australia's first Iraq casualties: Three Australians injured in Baghdad blast.
You know the gag rule - the Bush administration's refusal to provide foreign aid to any women's health organisation which so much as mentions abortion? Australia has one too. That means more poverty, disease, death - and more abortions. More on this as I pull the facts together.
