Football Season is Over No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your […]
I received an email from Ralph Steadman this morning. A pleasant surprise indeed. After scolding Ron Whitehead for introducing him to another Fat American Gabacho on the interweb he went on to give me several answers, but some of them to questions I may have never asked. Among them this […]
From Gonzo Today Poetry Editor Ron Whitehead Ralph Steadman has joined GonzoFest 2015 in our efforts to Bring Bill to the Ville!! he just sent me this: RON Here is my pic of Bill MURRAY as Hunter in Where the Buffalo Roam – where it all started……….Hope you can open […]
By Ron Whitehead GonzoFest Louisville co-founder and Chief Poetics The first time Jack Nicholson called he was furious, pissed off, screaming. It was August 1995 and my grandmother, Louverine Render, had died. Right after the funeral my family and I headed out, in a rented car, for a 5,000-mile-out-West road […]
by Cody S. Decker I just got home from The Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame induction, where the Grand Poobah of Gonzo became one of the newest members. A lot is going through my head right now. Which means it’s time for me to kick start this old Smith Corona […]
by Johann Galloway What’s your typical day like out here?” I asked. “Well… you do a lot of walking and a lot of reading.” I wondered how folks like him ended up in such dire circumstances. Are they all drug addicts, alcoholics, degenerate gamblers or violent anti-socials who deserve their […]
by Rob Azevedo Dear Willy, Jenny told me you called the other night. You sounded beaten, like someone had taken a rivet gun to your insides. And before she had the chance to tell me you got laid off from your rugging job, I knew life had you licking the curb. There was […]
By: Darrin Kerr We are the Great Nation Born of independence Become the oppressor The land of opportunity The opportunity to shiver in the streets while hungry The opportunity to walk in space, but not in our inner cities The opportunity to work hard and remain poor We are laws without […]
by Ron Whitehead visited Springfield flew to Louisville drove Bardstown Road to St. Catharine College then on to The Starving Artist Cafe Welcome to Springfield, Kentucky wandered Main street side streets lost for hours small suitcase weighed down with heavy words The Emancipation Proclamation The Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln’s words […]
by Anthony Nowicke – originally appeared on Louisville.com May 8, 2014 Hunter S. Thompson was a talent all his own, a breed of genius rarely seen. Tom Wolfe, the godfather of New Journalism, compared Thompson to none other than Mark Twain, calling Thompson “the century’s greatest comic writer.” Thompson grew […]
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