Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
@GonzoVice
Followers
118K
Following
8K
Media
1K
Statuses
16K
Buy the ticket, take the ride. 🦇🇺🇸 Stay Weird
Strewn around Colorado
Joined October 2012
We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb.
52
828
3K
I was so far beyond simple fatigue that I was beginning to feel nicely adjusted to the idea of permanent hysteria.
1
40
205
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.
8
121
824
We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out.
2
102
445
On some days you have good ideas and on some days you have bad ones. The trick is knowing the difference. Instantly
5
56
240
One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
6
102
522
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
5
82
448
Jesus, I just went outside to piss and got whacked in the eyes by the results of what looks like a 7–8 inch all-nite snow, the first of the year … everything is fat white, even the sky is white. Dead silence, no color.
0
17
276
Hunter S. Thompson was famously associated with Wild Turkey whiskey, often seen drinking it directly from the bottle, sometimes in public appearances and even in interviews. He was known to require interviewers to drink it with him before questions were answered and was also seen
10
26
385
I always celebrate Thanksgiving with a Wild Turkey.
8
98
763
I’ve been provided with so much Wild Turkey that Ill end up giving quarts away before leaving town.
2
17
113
The tavern is normally calm on weekdays. It is a cowboy place, a small roadhouse far out on a back road down valley, the only neon sign within 10 miles in any direction. But the parking lot on this weekend was crisscrossed with Porsches and Range Rovers and an occasional new BMW
1
14
122
We had to put the Jeep in four-wheel low just to get over the long hill to the tavern. Frozen bulls blocked the road in front of Wayne’s place, pissing and stomping on the terra. Some people stopped for the brutes, which is always a nasty mistake. The only way to move them is to
0
12
88
The Thanksgiving week was a slow time for news in the Rockies. The summit was over, the Broncos were beaten and the snow got deeper each day. Many animals died.
1
10
86
The best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.
1
21
126