21/02/2017
Hunter Stockton Thompson died in Woody Creek, Colorado on this day in 2005 (aged 67).
“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
― from FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS by Hunter S. Thompson
This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.