Goodbye Hunter

Here's another juicy quote:

And that, I think, was the handle---that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting---on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark---the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

Looks like he chose the Hemmingway out.

I'm working through a cold today, so maybe it is time to up my meds as a homage. Where does my wife keep that damn human adrenaline?

In Response to deerboy (#25273):

In her pituitary. Bring her on over and we can brew up some adrenochrome.

About six years ago I was driving to L.A. when (cue Eagles) I had to stop for the night; it was Barstow. I can condone any behaviour to wipe that town from the conscience.

Wow, so he was nearly 70. I guess if you've got no more plans, that's a good time to go out before your body turns on you.

I once thought it would be a brilliant idea to read Fear & Loathing while on acid. I'm sure I'm far from the first person to have this brilliant idea.

Needless to say, that didn't work so well. I don't think I managed to keep track of the words long enough to get through more than about a sentence or two, although I did turn some pages. I think I thought I had read them, but I'm pretty sure I hadn't.

This list is Hunter! Gods speed and any other you can think of(He would get the joke.).
"Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga" (1966)

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" (1972)

"Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72" (1973)

"The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time" (1979)

"The Curse of Lono" (illustrated by Ralph Steadman) (1983)

"Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s" (1988)

"Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream" (1990)

"Silk Road: Thirty-three Years in the Passing Lane" (1990)

"Better than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie (1993)

"The Proud Highway: The Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967" (1997)

"The Rum Diary: The Long Lost Novel" (1998)

"Screwjack and Other Stories" (2000)

"Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, 1968-1976" (2000)

"The Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century" (2003)

"Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness (2004)

I have been a connoisseur of fast motorcycles all my life. I bought a brand-new 650 BSA Lightning when it was billed as "the fastest motorcycle ever tested by Hot Rod magazine." I have ridden a 500-pound Vincent through traffic on the Ventura Freeway with burning oil on my legs and run the Kawa 750 Triple through Beverly Hills at night with a head full of acid... I have ridden with Sonny Barger and smoked weed in biker bars with Jack Nicholson, Grace Slick, Ron Zigler and my infamous old friend, Ken Kesey, a legendary Cafe Racer.

That man kicked ass.

Whole article here [latexnet.org].

I decided that some sort of "blog o' meme" was in order.
What the hell, we've come this far... [livejournal.com]

In Response to jon (#25272):

A quote that probably won't show up in the American papers:

We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our
hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us... No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we’ll kill you.

Well, shit on that dumbness. George W. Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my friends or the people I respect in this world. We didn’t vote for these cheap, greedy little killers who speak for America today - and we will not vote for them again in 2002. Or 2004. Or ever.

Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine?
These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush?

They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and
vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers amongst us – they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these
Nazis.

And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them.

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