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Take the ticket.

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Currently reading: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson.

“In a world full of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

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“On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”

- Hunter S. Thompson

(Photograph by Christopher Felver/Corbis)

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Happy birthday to Gonzo artist Ralph Steadman @steadmanart who turns 85 today. Here’s his poster art for Where the Buffalo Roam (1980). . #steadman #ralphsteadman #gonzo #gonzojournalism #gonzoart #wherethebuffaloroam #huntersthompson #billmurray https://www.instagram.com/p/CO50Cf8lmUJ/?igshid=7i42accyk9g7

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Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

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HB Hunter!  Dr Hunter S Thompson was born this day in 1937 in Louisville KY, and would have been 86.

According to Thompson, their meeting came at the apartment of a pot-dealer whom they both knew:   I met Allen in San Francisco when I went to see a marijuana dealer who sold by the lid. I remember it was ten dollars when I started going to that apartment and then it was up to fifteen. I ended up going there pretty often, and Ginsberg—this was in Haight Ashbury—was always there looking for weed too. I went over and introduced myself and we ended up talking a lot. I told him about the book I was writing and asked if he would help with it. He helped me with it for several months; that’s how he got to know the Hell’s Angels.

Of course, this story has all the hallmarks of Gonzo mythmaking. … Indeed, when I recently dug up a hitherto-unpublished  interview Ginsberg gave in 1993, I was not exactly shocked to see him directly contradict Thompson’s story. The first question was “When did you first meet Dr Thompson?” Ginsberg replied:

If you look at the poem, “The First Meeting at Ken Kesey and the Hell’s Angels,” there’s a description of a party where Kesey invited the Angels down to La Honda, his house. I was there and Thompson was there. So that’s where we first met.”  

Exerpt from today’s guest post at allenginsberg.org today by @davidswills, author of the forthcoming “High White Notes – The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism”  Photo: Allen Ginsberg, Boulder CO July 17, 1989

#huntersthompson #allenginsberg #gonzojournalism @fatcitygallery #beatgeneration #hellsangels #kenkesey (at Louisville, Kentucky)

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