--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
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> This was a brilliant response, thanks.
Hopefully more brilliant than disturbed. ;-)
> > In the most general sense, Thompson had redeeming
> > value, IMHO, because
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB >
> > In your sick world I'm, sure he is very much alive.
> > I want to womit.
> > Alternatively; that this Barry Foo
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote:
> >
> > By the way, Gus Van Sant is shooting a
> > movie of Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, to be
> > released this year. Could be good. Same
> > writer he used for "Milk." There
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote:
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> By the way, Gus Van Sant is shooting a
> movie of Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, to be
> released this year. Could be good. Same
> writer he used for "Milk." There are no
> details about it on the IMDB yet, so I am
> very curious as to wh
By the way, Gus Van Sant is shooting a
movie of Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, to be
released this year. Could be good. Same
writer he used for "Milk." There are no
details about it on the IMDB yet, so I am
very curious as to who he's going to cast
in the various roles.
Who gets to play Kesey?
A
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote:
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> > Also, it was pretty common knowledge around
> > Eugene and Springfield that the chapter about
> > Kesey in Mexico wasn't written by Wolfe. It
> > was written by Ke
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote:
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> With all due respect, Tom Wolfe lied in the
> Hells Angels story in Electric Kool-Aid Acid
> Test, too. He gave the girl who gang-banged
> the whole gang a new name or left her nameless
> (I forget which). But it was really Mountain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "geezerfreak" wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
> wrote:
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> I am open to someone showing me something redeeming about the guy.
> Well...sorta open...
> >
>
> Curtis, he requested that his remains be shot out of a cann
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
wrote:
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I am open to someone showing me something redeeming about the guy.
Well...sorta open...
>
Curtis, he requested that his remains be shot out of a cannon when he
died.which they were.
C'mon, you have to admire that, doncha
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I am open to someone showing me something redeeming about
> > > the guy. Well...s
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
> wrote:
> >
> > I am open to someone showing me something redeeming about
> > the guy. Well...sorta open...
>
> I liked the "gonzo journalism."
>
> By writing himself into th
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:06 PM, authfriend wrote:
> In the most general sense, Thompson had redeeming
> value, IMHO, because he he pushed the envelope in
> so many ways at a time it desperately needed to be
> pushed.
>
> Here's an obit that takes a very positive view of
> Thompson:
>
> http://www
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote:
This was a brilliant response, thanks.
>
> In the most general sense, Thompson had redeeming
> value, IMHO, because he he pushed the envelope in
> so many ways at a time it desperately needed to be
> pushed.
I know he got the credit but
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
wrote:
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> I am open to someone showing me something redeeming about
> the guy. Well...sorta open...
I liked the "gonzo journalism."
By writing himself into the stories, as an
integral part of the action (with Nixon or
with the Hells An
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung wrote:
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> Judy,
>
> Thanks for the support, but I do think that Turq
> correctly nailed me on being a hypocrite in kind
> even if my degree of using negative imagery is
> arguably less than the intensity of Hunter's
> fictions.
It's not the degree
Judy,
Thanks for the support, but I do think that Turq correctly nailed me on being a
hypocrite in kind even if my degree of using negative imagery is arguably less
than the intensity of Hunter's fictions.
We all laugh at the guy slipping on the banana peel, and I, indeed, laughed
while readin
In the most general sense, Thompson had redeeming
value, IMHO, because he he pushed the envelope in
so many ways at a time it desperately needed to be
pushed.
He may well have pushed it farther than it needed
to go, but he opened up the space for others to
explore and set more reasonable limits.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung wrote:
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> Touche' Thanks for that. I bow.
Thanks for reacting like that.
Writers get carried away sometimes. Hunter
certainly did. He's just lucky that he didn't
choose to name the cleaning woman "Judy" or
someone we know would have been scr
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung wrote:
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> I read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and I found it shocking at the time --
> maybe even now I would be shocked.
>
> Why? Cuz, satire or not, the book delights in the misery of others who are
> merely innocent bystanders.
In every
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung wrote:
> >
> > I read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and I found it shocking
> > at the time -- maybe even now I would be shocked.
> > . . .
> > In one scenario, Hunter is stoned on sever
Touche' Thanks for that. I bow.
Edg
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote:
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> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung wrote:
> >
> > I read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and I found it shocking
> > at the time -- maybe even now I would be shocked.
> > . . .
> > I
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung wrote:
>
> I read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and I found it shocking
> at the time -- maybe even now I would be shocked.
> . . .
> In one scenario, Hunter is stoned on several drugs and a cleaning
> lady enters his motel room, and he takes her
I'm not saying I found anything very admirable about the guy, but it amazed
me that a person could consume so many drugs and yet be productive. The
human body is tremendously resilient.
I read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and I found it shocking at the time --
maybe even now I would be shocked.
Why? Cuz, satire or not, the book delights in the misery of others who are
merely innocent bystanders.
In one scenario, Hunter is stoned on several drugs and a cleaning lady enter
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