He later became a proud member of the National Rifle Association and almost was elected sheriff in Aspen in 1970 under the Freak Power Party banner. He prized peacocks and weapons in 2000, he accidentally shot and slightly wounded his assistant trying to chase a bear off his property.īorn July 18, 1937, in Kentucky, Hunter Stockton Thompson served two years in the Air Force, where he was a newspaper sports editor. This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. The writer’s compound in Woody Creek, not far from Aspen, was almost as legendary as Thompson. “They were willing to risk all of his irresponsible behavior in order to share his talent with their readers.” Thompson’s book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, there’s a scene that flashes back to San Francisco in the mid-1960s. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Print length 176 pages Language English Publisher Top Shelf Productions Publication date NovemReading age 16 years and up Dimensions 6.2 x 0.7 x 9. “But every editor that I know, myself included, was willing to accept a certain prima donna journalism in the demands he would make to cover a particular story,” he said. FEAR & LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS North Star HUNTER S THOMPSON TSHIRT inspired. “It was hard to say sometimes whether he was being provocative for its own sake or if he was just being drunk and stoned and irresponsible,” quipped Krassner, founder of the leftist publication The Realist and co-founder of the Youth International (YIPPIE) party. And, you know, this venue, as much as we are fascinated by Vegas, and some of our favorite artists, like I think of Frank Sinatra and his association, Elvis, but then there’s sort of Hunter S. FEAR & LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS North Star HUNTER S THOMPSON TSHIRT inspired T-Shirt.

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