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Archive for Hunter S Thompson
Caliban
Posted in Real Men with tags Caliban, Henry Rollins, Hunter S Thompson, Shakespeare, The Tempest on March 1, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”
– Hunter S. Thompson.
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‘Are You a Satanist?’
Posted in Journalism, Observation, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Reading, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags Albert Einstein, blasphemy, Christianity, Ernest Hemingway, Hunter S Thompson, John Milton, Letters to a Satanist, Lucien Greaves, mysterious, mythology, Nikos Kazantzakis, Oklahoma Satanic Temple, Paradise Lost, religion, Salman Rushdie, Satan, Satanic Verses, sigil of Baphomet, Spanish Civil War, The Last Temptation, William Blake on December 15, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
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I feel responsible. I feel that I must do something like Flanagan, or Tolstoy. Anything less is a waste of everyone’s time – both yours, and mine. If I think about it too much, there’s not even time enough to go to work. Continue reading
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‘Are You A Satanist?’
Posted in Observation, Reading, Real Men, Statement of intention with tags Alfred Kazin, Catcher in the Rye, church, Desperate Romantic, Ernest Hemingway, genius, Gustave Dore, hell, Hell's Angels, Hunter S Thompson, John Milton, Leo Tolstoy, Letters to a Satanist, Lucien Greaves, mystic, Newton, Paradise Lost, priest, Richard Flanagan, Satanic Verses, sigil of Baphomet, Spanish Civil War, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, The Viking Portable Blake, War and Peace, William Blake on December 14, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
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The last twelve to eighteen months have taught me that if you put something on the internet, everybody will see it. People rarely comment on-line, but I seem to get all kinds of bizarre responses when I see them in public, ranging from facial expressions that look like they’ve swallowed a bullfrog (and are struggling to keep it down) to, ‘What’s with all the leather gear?’ Or even, ‘Are you a Satanist?’ Continue reading
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Hell's Angels
Posted in Reading, Real Men with tags Gonzo, Hell's Angels, Hunter S Thompson, Ken Kesey on June 17, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride…and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well… maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”
No doubt Fear and Loathing is a fabulous read, but I’m disappointed it’s the book Hunter S. Thompson has become best-known for. As a teenager, I bought Hell’s Angels and it has become a stand-out amongst all the books I own. Continue reading
