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Plans have begun for a Hunter Thompson Festival to take place next Summer 2008 around the time of Hunters birthday. Further info can be found at the Gonzo Board:

www.hunterthompsonfilms.com

There is also a myspace account:

www.myspace.com/hstfestival

The official website is www.gonzofest.net

Cheers,

Tom Luffman

Total coverage...yes...right...insane amounts of work. This is not something I'd advise your CHILDREN to read, ma'am ( Read more... )

Bride. Not a title I ever expected I'd carry since most of my titles keep me bound to work and odd research projects that make people sigh when I force them into so-called polite conversation. Still, the kind of love that made a man move 700 miles to live with me is the kind of love that makes me willing to take his last name ( Read more... )

Let's talk about the Cutty Sark! Ooooh, isn't it terrible!

Well, I was actually more concerned about the new law which enabled MPs to get out of freedom of information act.

No but the Cutty Sark! It's a little bit charred! The nation mourns!Sure, but a senior police officer has said he fears the spread of CCTV cameras in the UK is leading to "an ( Read more... )

In all this craziness of owning my own place to live and subsequently nearly being killed by a fridge and mocked to all HELL by a washer/dryer two nights ago, I realized last night that my experience with household appliances ranks somewhere between "clueless" and "caveman ( Read more... )

It always bugged me how they caught the guy so easily. They never did. So now I give you living proof that BTK is still at large.

The good thing about journalism is sometimes you never have to look further than your own typewriter for a good story. It can be right under you nose. This one came from here.

So I was doing a pretty run of the mill grocery store shop for dinner ingredients the other night when I was given time to reflect on one of the truly brilliant advances of the modern age. I speak, of course, of the self service check out line at the grocery store. Now this goes by a different names depending on the store, but the BASIC premise is ( Read more... )

All I wanted to do was cook a steak. But I’m not the best cook in the world so I need quiet, no distractions, no witnesses. I’ve come a long way mind, from the days of nearly getting an entire youth hostel evacuated by burning the shit out of an egg in the communal kitchen (I'd spent the whole day on acid though, so really it was my friends fault ( Read more... )

Abstract for my dissertation on Gonzo ( Read more... )