No Fear, Just Loathing: Hunter S. Thompson Campaigns with FrankenKerry

AP via Yahoo! ^ | 6/21/04

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"Two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered
blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored
uppers, downers, screamers, laughers, also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case
of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls... and I was still bored to tears
after five minutes with this guy..."

[sheik yerbouty]

The formerly good doctor is having a meltdown. He is out of Adrenochrome!

[moodyskeptic]

HST appears to have finally reaped what he sowed: glorification of desperate reckless drug injestion.

It all sounded so gonzo to the feeble hippies back in the seventies. Read his old stuff, it screams paranoid irresponsibilty.

[NYCVirago]

Whose vote does John Kerry think he's trying to attract by hanging around with Hunter S. Thompson? I think Kerry's got the drug addict vote sewed up already.

[Interesting Times]

Somebody should dredge up HST's fawning piece touting the great Jimmy Carter -- I think is was in "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail."

[InTheWeeds]

Somebody should dredge up HST's fawning piece touting the great Jimmy Carter -- I think is was in "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail."

Actually, it was "Jimmy Carter and the Great Leap of Faith", which I think is in The Great Shark Hunt.

[InTheWeeds]

Hunter has aged 30 years in the last 15.

I was amazed when I saw him on Conan O'Brien recently. As far as I know, he's had several discs in his spine replaced with titanium, two hip replacements, (and a broken leg, which happened in January, I think), all in the last five years.

[Interesting Times]

Actually, it was "Jimmy Carter and the Great Leap of Faith", which I think is in The Great Shark Hunt.

So it is. Thank you...