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JoeSki
February 26, 2005, 6:07pm
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Plans and drawings for this cannon are described and shown in the short documentry "Hunter Goes to Hollywood, which is included in the Critereon Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas DVD. The cannon was to be in the shape of the Gonzo logo, which is a clenched fist.
As a former journalist, my favorite HST quote is from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:
Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catchall for fuckoffs and misfits, a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy, piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.
The Onion has a great tribute to HST at http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4112&n=3 . (pravnik started a CS thread on it – http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=308402.)
LAS VEGAS—During a Tuesday press conference at the National Gonzo Press Club, members of the nation’s foremost organization of gonzo journalists vowed to carry on the mission of its founder Hunter S. Thompson, who took his life last month.
“Now that the whore-beasts and the scum-sucking degenerate rat bastards in Wall Street and the White House are hell-bent on turning us all into pliant, Scripture-mewling puppet-slaveys, we must take up Hunter’s fallen colors and charge into the fray,” said NGPC president Gene Zolonga, who is the National Affairs and Shark Hunting Editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer. “The next four years will be an unprecedented monument to bestial human ugliness, but I’d sooner let Yakuza thugs strap a rabid wolverine to my groin than shirk my responsibilities as a gonzo journalist.”
Amen!
Which leads to the question — had Hunter S. Thompson long ago become a repetitious, predictable caricature of himself?
If you mean an icon with a recognizible style, then yeep.
To elaborate, one could play the same imitation game with Joyce.