On January 28, 2015 Ron Whitehead inducted Hunter S. Thompson into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame. The ceremony took place, with a standing room only audience, at The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Kentucky. After Hunter’s induction, Wendell Berry became the first living author to be […]
LETTER FROM RON WHITEHEAD (From Ralph Steadman) Ron Here is a happy shot that may be of Kentuckian interest for tour DaZE Shindig!! Hunter’s Red Shark! RALPH ..and Hunter at work in the City of Refuge when we were in Hawaii! …and here is something you might be able to […]
Who made Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? Ralph Steadman or Hunter Thompson? In Truth, they told the same story through different ink. What Fear and Loathing summed up was the Depravity at the Heart of the American Dream. The ugliness behind the True Spirit of America. What both artists […]
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 […]
“I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn’t know I could commit suicide at any time,” he told me many years ago, and I knew he meant it. It wasn’t a case of if but when. He didn’t reckon he would make it beyond 30 anyway, so […]
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By: Jeroen Melis http://jeroenmelis.wordpress.com The Rorschach technique, is a projective personality assessment based on the test taker’s reactions to a series of 10 inkblot pictures.
By: Maven Cade Leary It’s 4:04 in the morning, the 21st of July, just a few days after Hunter S. Thompson’s birthday. The night, a long and treacherous journey, has returned me unscarred to my decrepit abode in the Cote-des-Neiges ghetto. A journey into the heart of Montreal, and the […]
As Nigel Farage embarks on his second pint of bitter, I read him a paragraph from Hunter Thompson’s Rolling Stone obituary of Richard Nixon. “Some of my best friends,” Thompson wrote, “have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon. My son hates Nixon. I hate Nixon, and this […]
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