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[–] 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Read Hunter Thompson's book "Hell's Angels." There's a section where he breaks down the economics of being a biker/hippie/artist circa 1970. An Angel could get a job as a Union stevedore and earn enough in six months to live on the road for two years. A part time waitress could support herself and her boyfriend.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The Good Doctor is the only person who died before the shitshow we find ourselves in today both politically and economically whose opinions on it I really want to hear. In football terms he and his writings always had incredible down the field vision in part because he had such a firm grasp on the cultural flows of the present and the national temperature of the US people.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Now I have to dig out "...On The Campaign Trail" and reread the part where he writes about talking football with Nixon.

    A lot of people told me that I should watch the series "The Deuce" with Maggie Gyllenhaal. I stopped watching ten minutes into the first episode because they had a pimp recite some of Thompson's wisdom as if the writers had come up with it on their own.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Hunter’s influence is everywhere but it is infuriating when someone tries to claim some sort of brilliance he wrote down 50 years ago. I need to read hells angels again it’s been a decade at this point but it will have to wait until I both start and finish the illuminatist tirlogy. I read his 9/11 article regularly just to get a fix for his particular voice and perspective

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