This Is For Bam - Hunter S. Thompson

[Dreadful]

TheChive Blog Archive Hunter S. Thompson motivational posters (13 posters)

[Bam]

Nice find Dread, I'm thinking I might have to get one of those. I'm thinking the Immorality poster.

Thompson was a different animal. People have a lot of different opinions about him but I respect what he stood for. You have to see through the drugs and alcohol because like he says "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."

edit: noticed in baker's quote I didn't make sense, forgot a word.

[Baker]

Thompson was a different animal. People have a lot of different opinions about him but I respect what he stood for. You have to through the drugs and alcohol because like he says "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."

One thing I do know is that there is something to be said for "insanity".

Around 2007, I ended up trying to reconcile why insane ideas are the ones that make the world go around. In the end I quit thinking about it and just accepted it as fact

[rev]

i may get laughed at for this, but is that guy the uhm, how do i word it, is he the inspiration behind johnny depp's character in fear and loathing? srsly i'm not well read, i read fine but i mostly stick with non-fiction/current events.

[Dreadful]

Yes, Rev, that is him, he wrote it as a novel before it became a movie. He also became one of the first editors of the Rolling Stones Magazine. Might I add, I went to the same high school as this guy and I grew up in, as well as, live in the same neighborhood he grew up in, in Louisville, Ky. =]

[rev]

yeah i knew there was a book first, which is why i said "not well read". but that's interesting and stuff about you and him and stuff..............

[Dreadful]

Well, I found it neat.

[R00k]

i like the glasses, not the shorty-shorts!
yet i am ignorant of the man himself.