Why Should I Care About Hunter Thompson ?

[BeenHereBefore 844]

Fear & Loathing was a strange book and movie and there is no more Gonzo journalism today.

[The Real timschochet 752]

It’s a cool book though. 

[The Real timschochet 752]

Why should I care about Tab Hunter? 
 

(unless you’re a John Waters fan…) 

[BeenHereBefore 844]

2 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

Why should I care about Tab Hunter? 
 

(unless you’re a John Waters fan…) 

Na saw Hairspray and not a fan.

[The Real timschochet 752]

1 minute ago, BeenHereBefore said:

Na saw Hairspray and not a fan.

That’s distilled Waters. You need to watch Pink Flamingoes with Divine and Tab to get the real guy. 

[BeenHereBefore 844]

7 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

That’s distilled Waters. You need to watch Pink Flamingoes with Divine and Tab to get the real guy. 

Funny Johnny Depp stared in John Waters Cry Baby Movie and also Fear & Loathing. That is the link and why we should care about Hunter Thompson. Because of Johnny Depp would want us too.

[Pimpadeaux 1,327]

http://grantland.com/features/looking-back-hunter-s-thompson-classic-story-kentucky-derby/

[Fnord 422]

We should care because he was a journalistic and literary legend, an iconoclastic degenerate that wasn't beholden to what things "should be." I really wish he was still alive, the last 7-8 years would have provided him with some rich material. 

[Hardcore troubadour 9,776]

He would have had a field day with the sky screamers and TDS inflicted 

[Pimpadeaux 1,327]

1 minute ago, Fnord said:

We should care because he was a journalistic and literary legend, an iconoclastic degenerate that wasn't beholden to what things "should be." I really wish he was still alive, the last 7-8 years would have provided him with some rich material. 

I was majoring in petroleum engineering and took a hard right into journalism after I'd read "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." 

[Pimpadeaux 1,327]

18 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

He would have had a field day with the sky screamers and TDS inflicted 

No, he'd have a field day with Trump and the MAGA crowd. You obviously know nothing about Hunter S. Thompson. 

[nobody 1,590]

You shouldn't care about him.  Overrated as fūck.

[Pimpadeaux 1,327]

9 minutes ago, nobody said:

You shouldn't care about him.  Overrated as fūck.

You're just being a hipster contrarian.

He was a great writer and had a huge influence on journalism.

[Hardcore troubadour 9,776]

2 hours ago, Pimpadeaux said:

No, he'd have a field day with Trump and the MAGA crowd. You obviously know nothing about Hunter S. Thompson. 

You obviously know nothing about him. It’s obvious you’re a run of the mill poseur. Tell us about Fear and Loathing On The Campaign Trail 72 

[kutulu 1,421]

3:00 p.m. rise
3:05 Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills
3:45 cocaine
3:50 another glass of Chivas, Dunhill
4:05 first cup of coffee, Dunhill
4:15 cocaine
4:16 orange juice, Dunhill
4:30 cocaine
4:54 cocaine
5:05 cocaine
5:11 coffee, Dunhills
5:30 more ice in the Chivas
5:45 cocaine, etc., etc.
6:00 grass to take the edge off the day
7:05 Woody Creek Tavern for lunch-Heineken, two margaritas, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of fried onion rings, carrot cake, ice cream, a bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home, a snow cone (a glass of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jig­gers of Chivas)
9:00 starts snorting cocaine seriously
10:00 drops acid
11:00 Chartreuse, cocaine, grass
11:30 cocaine, etc, etc.
12:00 midnight, Hunter S. Thompson is ready to write
12:05-6:00 a.m. Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, clove cigarettes, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin, continuous pornographic movies.
6:00 the hot tub-champagne, Dove Bars, fettuccine Alfredo
8:00 Halcyon
8:20 sleep

[Mike Honcho 3,090]

4 hours ago, BeenHereBefore said:

Fear & Loathing was a strange book and movie and there is no more Gonzo journalism today.

Started reading it once, never finished it.

[BeenHereBefore 844]

17 minutes ago, Mike Honcho said:

Started reading it once, never finished it.

I saw the movie but did read his last book.

[nobody 1,590]

3 hours ago, Pimpadeaux said:

You're just being a hipster contrarian.

He was a great writer and had a huge influence on journalism.

I'm a hipster contrarian?  Because I don't idolize someone that glorified drug use and nihilism and then blew his own brains out with his kids in the next room?

[Hardcore troubadour 9,776]

1 minute ago, nobody said:

I'm a hipster contrarian?  Because I don't idolize someone that glorified drug use and nihilism and then blew his own brains out with his kids in the next room?

Rusty is just repeating what the cool kids say. Vapid as Fock 

[Bert 999]

Drug addled alcoholic that idiot wanna be journalist thought was their messiah.  The same people that ended up as part of a cult or burnouts.  

 

 

 

[craftsman 1,041]

4 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

He would have had a field day with the sky screamers and TDS inflicted 

Can you imagine how he would just rip the TDS and woke? Dang, he would have school teachers wanting to hang themselves within a year's time. 

[Pimpadeaux 1,327]

1 hour ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

You obviously know nothing about him. It’s obvious you’re a run of the mill poseur. Tell us about Fear and Loathing On The Campaign Trail 72 

You're such an ignorant dumbass,  a ceaseless fountain of lies and misinformation, and you've really stepped in it on this one.

I've read almost every book and magazine article he's ever written.

He loathed the far right and despised Nixon.

You won't read this, but:

https://mashable.com/article/freak-kingdom-hunter-s-thompson

He was a rabid crusader against the far right and what he considered fascism. A book was written about it.

Quote

The extreme conservative wing of the GOP first made itself known at the 1964 Republican convention, and Thompson was there in the pit of the Cow Palace in San Francisco for presidential candidate Barry Goldwater's acceptance speech. This was where the party base's champion proudly declared his "extremism."

At that word, the sea of white male delegates around Thompson started screaming and literally pounding their bodies against chairs.

The young reporter was terrified, and at the same time perversely fascinated by this primitive display. What was it in the soul of America that could bring forth this sea of unthinking support for Goldwater, a man who wanted to threaten Soviets with nukes while rolling back Civil Rights reforms at home?

"I was thinking, 'God damn you Nazi bastaards, I really hope you win it,'" Thompson wrote to a friend, "because letting your kind of human garbage flood the system is about the only way to really clean it out."

 

 

[Pimpadeaux 1,327]

1 minute ago, craftsman said:

Dang, he would have school teachers wanting to hang themselves within a year's time. 

And you would have found a way to swoop in and "comfort" those teachers' 14-year-old female students.

[Pimpadeaux 1,327]

17 minutes ago, nobody said:

I'm a hipster contrarian?  Because I don't idolize someone that glorified drug use and nihilism and then blew his own brains out with his kids in the next room?

Oh look at the holier-than-thou on this mutherfocker.

[craftsman 1,041]

2 minutes ago, Pimpadeaux said:

And you would have found a way to swoop in and "comfort" those teachers' 14-year-old female students.

Yep, when I was 14, I was getting laid then too. 

Sorry for your loss.

[craftsman 1,041]

1 minute ago, Pimpadeaux said:

Oh look at the holier-than-thou on this mutherfocker.

You and that guy 'nobody' have a lot in common. You both look to the internet to try and build up your real life low self esteems. 

[nobody 1,590]

2 minutes ago, Pimpadeaux said:

Oh look at the holier-than-thou on this mutherfocker.

Your hero was a shìtbag.  Face it. 

[nobody 1,590]

Just now, craftsman said:

You and that guy 'nobody' have a lot in common. You both look to the internet to try and build up your real life low self esteems. 

You lie on the internet about not being poor and how you used to bang hot chicks.

[Pimpadeaux 1,327]

1 minute ago, nobody said:

Your hero was a shìtbag.  Face it. 

You're so pure as the driven snow.

[Bert 999]

Journalistically Hunter was really nothing more than the Kardashians of his Era.  

[craftsman 1,041]

2 minutes ago, nobody said:

You lie on the internet about not being poor and how you used to bang hot chicks.

Whatever helps you build your self esteem in real life. My alias is here for you to vent on for all the things gone wrong in your life peanut.

[Pimpadeaux 1,327]

Just now, Bert said:

Journalistically Hunter was really nothing more than the Kardashians of his Era.  

You ever read Hell's Angels?

[craftsman 1,041]

5 minutes ago, nobody said:

Your hero was a shìtbag.  Face it. 

Let it all out to the strangers on this site. That should really help feed your malnourished, uneducated kids. 

[Hardcore troubadour 9,776]

13 minutes ago, Pimpadeaux said:

You're such an ignorant dumbass,  a ceaseless fountain of lies and misinformation, and you've really stepped in it on this one.

I've read almost every book and magazine article he's ever written.

He loathed the far right and despised Nixon.

You won't read this, but:

https://mashable.com/article/freak-kingdom-hunter-s-thompson

He was a rabid crusader against the far right and what he considered fascism. A book was written about it.

 

 

He was anti war. Why would he be on the  side of the war mongers? He would hate you and the modern day liberal. He hated the hippies even. 

[Hardcore troubadour 9,776]

Oh how romantic Rusty Is. He read Hunter Thompson and was so inspired by Gonzo journalism that he switched majors and went out and got a job at the pennysaver. Lol. 

[Bert 999]

3 minutes ago, Pimpadeaux said:

You ever read Hell's Angels?

Yes and it was very similar to the Kardashians. He got in with a group that would feed his demons and give the world insight to something they knew very little about.  

[Pimpadeaux 1,327]

1 minute ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

He was anti war. Why would he be inthe side of the war mongers? He would hate you and the modern day liberal. He hated the hippies. 

One simultaneously can be anti-war and against the far right. 

There are countless articles and even a book about his loathing of the far right. I posted a link to one and the moment he became that way. 

He most certainly would have despised the rise of Trumpism and MAGA and nothing but vicious things to say about it. He was staunchly anti-right, and that is documented beyond a reasonable doubt. 

[Hardcore troubadour 9,776]

3 minutes ago, Bert said:

Yes and it was very similar to the Kardashians. He got in with a group that would feed his demons and give the world insight to something they knew very little about.  

And they kicked the snot out of him 

[Pimpadeaux 1,327]

3 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Oh how romantic Rusty Is. He read Hunter Thompson and was so inspired by Gonzo journalism that he switched majors and went out and got a job at the pennysaver. Lol. 

Which would represent the ragged edge of your reading-comprehension capabilities.

LOOK, MA! THEY GOT CHEESY POOFS FOR SALE AT THE PENNYSAVER!

[Hardcore troubadour 9,776]

4 minutes ago, Pimpadeaux said:

One simultaneously can be anti-war and against the far right. 

There are countless articles and even a book about his loathing of the far right. I posted a link to one and the moment he became that way. 

He most certainly would have despised the rise of Trumpism and MAGA and nothing but vicious things to say about it. He was staunchly anti-right, and that is documented beyond a reasonable doubt. 

He was rebellious , his whole life. He was disgusted with the failure of the counter culture. You think he would have looked at you feminized head noders and toadies that tout the party line as something interesting? You would disgust him.