March 3, 2005
Decadent and depraved
Doonesbury @ Slate runs the first strips devoted to Uncle Duke, the charachter based on Hunter S. Thompson. Whenever I think of HST, I'm reminded of this quote from Fear and Loathing, thoughtfully scrawled some years prior to my arrival near the toilet paper dispenser of my college newspaper's bathroom:
"Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuck-offs and misfits--a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."
So true.
Posted by rj3 at March 3, 2005 2:25 PM
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