Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, “I’ve really been blessed. I can write these things and it makes me happy, and it makes millions of people happy.” It’s an obligation, it’s bigger than you. It’s the only true magic I know. It’s not pulling […]
Editor’s note: We requested Ralph Steadman grant us an interview. He sent us this reply with a few illustrations, a poem Hunter sent him and a poem of his own: Hi! David I am sure it is all for the best! Glad you are still pressing on with things! Your […]
Bernie Sanders won in a couple of primary states last night — moving Hillary Clinton one step closer to the nomination and, thereby, Donald Trump one step closer to the White House. Watching the country creep closer to doom is not my idea of fun — but it’s not like what […]
Iconic post-hardcore group At The Drive-In have announced that they will embark on a world reunion tour in March. Tickets are on sale now for many locations. A full list of dates and locations can be found below. Additionally, the band have confirmed that they will release new music this year. […]
When snackless invaders claimed Oregon’s federally controlled Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and Bird Sanctuary in the name of private citizens last week, they were met with loud guffaws from Native Americans, A.K.A. the indigenous peoples of this continent. The anti-government-protesting Bundy Brothers, holed up at the wildlife refuge, insist they will not leave until the land […]
By David Pratt CAPE COD, MA – Cape Cod is considered one of the most haunted regions of already creepy New England. From the ghosts of old ship captains and shipwrecked pirates to the lost souls of their women left behind, eternally gazing out to sea from their widow’s walk, Cape […]
by David Pratt What the fuck is this shit? It’s after midnight, it’s raining, my publisher and poetry editor are whooping it up in Denver with Hunter’s son, daughter-in-law and grandson, along with Doug Brinkley, DJ Watkins & NIck Storm…and I am stuck here on the bleak and blear October […]
Stoned Poet Blues (with John Coltrane’s “Spiritual”} Recipient of the 2015 Gonzofest Literary Award for Poetry by David Pratt -1- Got them nowhere going, nothing showing, no use crying, even trying, dogsick endtime blues… Listen. I’m out here on the edge wondering what the? fuck to do with myself. Darting […]
October is the dying month, replete with darkling shades of hoary Time flying down its necessary doom — Days diminish, birds wing sadder, leaves on the waft drift a plaintive, lonely patter. — david pratt
ACOSTA DOCUMENTARY WILL PRESENT PROOF, FAMILY SAYS By David Pratt “One of God’s own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”—Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone 12/15/1977 October 15, 1973, The Playboy Forum: Sir: Your November […]
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