February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally embraced the Super Bowl in January as the high-water mark of his year.
People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.
I grew up poor in crappy situations various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.
I started reading Hunter S. Thompson when I was in college.
Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.
Just because you go to Burning Man doesn't make you Hunter Thompson.
My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
I've said many times how big a wrestling fan I am, but all my bias aside as her husband, I'm a huge Candice LeRae fan. I was a huge Candice LeRae fan before we started dating. I was a huge Candice LeRae fan before we got married.
Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have to do with us being frustrated poets.
I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, when I was 12.
I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
I always lamented that I wasn't a writer during the late '60s and the early '70s, with the New Journalism and Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson and all those people.
I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.
We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.
Political stuff is all about his [Hunter S. Thompson] reaction to a situation. And my stuff is much more externally driven.