"This may be the
year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back
and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen
with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing
anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. The tragedy of
all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a
fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country
might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little
hustlers like Richard Nixon."
-- Hunter S. Thompson
Thompson has influenced the past few generations with his invention of Gonzo Journalism. The Good Doctor broke the mold on writing and changed the world and the voice of counter-culture. His work and antics will live on to influence even more generations to come. I paid tribute to Hunter S Thompson and his work with my portrait and article on my artist's blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/02/in-memoriam-hunter-s-thompson.html
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