What’s happening now? What comes next?
I’m a big fan of Hunter Thompson and just picked up one of his collections that I hadn’t noticed before (Songs of the Doomed). I had previously thought that he actually had a doctorate in journalism, but according to Wikipedia the doctorate is from a mail-order church. It makes sense that he would never aquire something as time-consuming as a doctoral degree, but his writing skills are still absolutely superb - so if anything this just adds more character. I think.
On a related note a new HST movie is possibly in the pipeline, based on The Rum Diary. Both Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro will once again emulate Hunter S. Thompson and Oscar Zeta Acosta (respectively). Sounds good to me.
Roberto Shamasio said,
February 11, 2005 @ 11:55 am
Wierd dude, I actaully came upon Hunter in the wikipedia as well a few weeks ago. I linked to him from the Transmetropolitan entry.