Fear & Loathing in Woody Creek
Dr. Thompson has left the planet.
Creeping Jesus. The bats must have been attacking.
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" changed my life. I have never laughed out loud as much as I did reading that book. I read that in mid-stream of college, somewhere around the time I changed majors from music to English. I'm not sure I was consciously aware of the book converting me from a choir geek into a journalist, but looking back now I think that F & L may have had something to do with that decision.
I'm grateful Thompson did what he did. He stomped new terra for a whole generation of journalists and writers, and every once in awhile I glimpse Thompson in somebody's writing style. And I chuckle.
I wonder if he left a suicide note...if he did, it is probably the funniest/saddest damn thing he ever wrote.
Creeping Jesus. The bats must have been attacking.
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" changed my life. I have never laughed out loud as much as I did reading that book. I read that in mid-stream of college, somewhere around the time I changed majors from music to English. I'm not sure I was consciously aware of the book converting me from a choir geek into a journalist, but looking back now I think that F & L may have had something to do with that decision.
I'm grateful Thompson did what he did. He stomped new terra for a whole generation of journalists and writers, and every once in awhile I glimpse Thompson in somebody's writing style. And I chuckle.
I wonder if he left a suicide note...if he did, it is probably the funniest/saddest damn thing he ever wrote.
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