tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post110908297408920134..comments2024-02-12T03:04:46.091-08:00Comments on AttackingtheDemi-Puppets: Hunter ThompsonKing Wenclashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1109168009001233252005-02-23T06:13:00.000-08:002005-02-23T06:13:00.000-08:00He was a brilliant character and super, innovative...He was a brilliant character and super, innovative reporter all right. Very inspirational for my generation.<br /><br />Man, when books like his---and Abbey's "Monkey Wrench"---first came out, oh man! They were in millions of hip pockets and sparked up social change and provoked young people everywhere to explore and look at their country with new eyes. 70's literary pulp was a good period...altho it should've been better. It definitely lacked the sustainable angle: it was usually about self-poisoning and letting a crazy world make you crazy. Incomplete...and wimpy, in the end. Yes, it too usually came from money and privilege: and thus silliness in the end despite its talent. (Robbins, McGuane, Castenada.) ZEENSTERS CAN DO BETTER! But we haven't seen influential writing like that since. (Unless you want to count the provoking of smirks and black watch caps as influence.) <br /><br />It's too bad HST never used his bully pulpit to help kindred spirits who kept on pushing, at least not that I've heard about. Anyone know better? I haven't read his letters book.Jeff Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03790219160140511776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-1109107798542049322005-02-22T13:29:00.000-08:002005-02-22T13:29:00.000-08:00Check Jack Saunders' post today:
http://www.theda...Check Jack Saunders' post today:<br /><br />http://www.thedailybulletin.com/ldagrant/feb23a.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com