HST

"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes.
Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production.
Too weird to live, and too rare to die."

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is, are the ones who have gone over."

I loved Hunter S Thompson. He is one of my top 5 favorite authors. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is my all time favorite book. I just ordered a documentary about him. I was thinking about when I saw him do a reading in Baltimore back in the early 90's. 1992 maybe? It was at a tiny club and it was not as crowded as I thought it should have been. HST was 2 hours late and the rumor was that he was at a bar next door drinking. When he finally did show up he walked on to the stance and proceeded to know down the table, fan, chair and anything else that got in his way. He started into his diatribe but was slurring so badly I was beginnning to think I had wasted my money but he eventually got into his groove and the show was awesome.

Not long after his death I read an article that said he faked being drunk at those spoken word dates, and I laughed becuase he got me. The joke was on me.