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Harper's Dismisses Tim Russert as 'Headwaiter' for U.S. Gov't Officials
http://www.odwyerpr.com/ blog/ index.php?/ archives/ 307-Harpers-Dismisses-Tim-R…“Celebrity journalism” is roasted in a biting commentary by Lewis Lapham in the September issue of Harper’s. The “vanity of the fourth estate which regards itself as the light in the window of western civilization” was on glorious display during the over-the-top mourning for “Meet the Press” broadcaster Tim Russert, according to Harper’s national correspondent.
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Nor I
http://subwayphilosophy.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 08/ 09/ nor-i/“My attorney had never been able to accept the notion, often espoused by former drug abusers, that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them, and neither have I for that matter.” –Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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Tombstone: I was a naive overbelieving type
http://shinjishinji.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 08/ 09/ tombstone-i-was-a-naive-overbel…(I was supposed to post this yesterday, but I fell asleep and forgot all about it) This week, my original earphones from Sansa got fucked up. Hence, new headphones. They look awesome because they’re huge. I’d like to think that this is my way of saying “I don’t want to hear you talk,” to people.
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Gonzo Review
http://www.alterati.com/ blog/ ?p=2010Gonzo Review August 8th, 2008 by wesunruh GONZO THE LIFE & WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Wes Unruh Hunter Thompson’s psychedelic journalism heavily influenced the generation immediately before my own, and that generational bias was obvious in the crowd who gathered at the early-evening
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Take Five: Ride Hard
http://www.nerve.com/ CS/ blogs/ screengrab/ archive/ 2008/ 08/ 08/ take-five-ri…Larry Bishop's Hell Ride opens in limited release this week. Advance buzz about the retroriffic biker exploitation flick isn't great, despite the fact that the movie features one of the most mindlessly entertaining trailers of recent years.
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Hunter S. Thompson, 24 hours after the attack on 9/11
http://cajunboyinthecity.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 08/ hunter-s-thompson-24-hours-afte…I ran across this piece that was written by Hunter S. Thompson for ESPN.com on September 12, 2001. Now, let me state up front that I'm not a Hunter S. Thompson fanboy, nor have I ever been, but what he wrote that day was pretty damn profound, and filled with remarkably accurate predictions. An excerpt...
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The 85 Weirdest, Day 77: Hunter S. Thompson
http://weirdtales.net/ wordpress/ 2008/ 08/ 04/ the-85-weirdest-day-77-hunter-s-…The 85th anniversary issue of Weird Tales features our big list of “The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.” We’re breaking it down online, too: one honoree per day, in no particular order, for 85 days! The creator of “Gonzo” journalism, HUNTER S. THOMPSON (1937-2005) showed us how the sausage of politics and culture is made.
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I don’t care how you do or don’t your hair.
http://shinjishinji.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 08/ 04/ i-dont-care-how-you-do-or-dont-…It’s amazing how someone could ignore you just like that. I picked up two manuscripts of Broadway plays today: Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things (40 pesos, Booksale) and Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (60 pesos, Booksale). Figured that this could help me write something.
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Going Gonzo in San Francisco
http://www.dreamnotoftoday.com/ ?p=834The second my toes gripped the cracked sidewalk of this City by the Bay, I could feel the wrongness of this place. Even on that Saturday afternoon, surrounded on all sides by a charade of family-safe attractions for young and old, the sixth sense humans have for evil was tingling wildly. Something
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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
http://blog.locustfork.net/ 2008/ 08/ 01/ gonzo-the-life-and-work-of-dr-hunter-s…Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson August 1st, 2008 Ah, for the good old days, when there was only Vietnam and Nixon and bad LSD to worry about… Hunter S. Thompson, doctor of Gonzo journalism, covered politics in style from the Watergate Hotel pool with a case of Bass Ale and a manual typewriter.
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