New and Improved Celebrity Death Pool 2005

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by megaloman
Dickens on the other hand lived an exemplary life in letters as a man of morality and faith. His writing illustrated a firm grasp of the concept that personal choice in a life is important and choice has consequence. A lesson modern day society needs to relearn.

Pip helped a convict escape, and benefited- not suffered.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by megaloman
Well done sir, assuming you are a product of our nation’s esteemed union controlled education system I suggest you volunteer to be the poster boy for home schooling. A symbolic cautionary warning to anyone who would dare send their children to an outside school.

Comparing a third rate drug addled psychotic hack to one of the greatest writers in history, a man whose skills at character development and attention to detail were matched by few to none is an exercise in stupidity, but at a base level, HST lived a life of amorality and shined as a beacon for rresponsibility and the liberal destruction of American values for many dunderheaded youth (like you) to myopically follow. Dickens on the other hand lived an exemplary life in letters as a man of morality and faith. His writing illustrated a firm grasp of the concept that personal choice in a life is important and choice has consequence. A lesson modern day society needs to relearn.

Unfortunately PC loonies like you and other the HST dilettantish acolytes are more concerned with tearing down the foundations of our rich moral cultural heritage in the name of sex, drugs and moral relativism.

Physician, heal thyself.

Touche. I needed to stop taking myself so seriously.

Who are you really? I feel the need to congratulate your actual moniker on this last bit. It's brilliant.

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Dickens? What are you, in fucking ninth grade? His shit is as dated as Thompson's will be in 100 years.

How 'bout Goodbye Mr. Chips or Last of the Mohicans? Are you fucking citing to your high school Summer reading list?

What is this "Goodbye Mr. Chips?" This sounds like the tale of a short bus taking old guy living with small kids who learn a lot from having been around him. Am I even close?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by megaloman
Dickens

Yes, but were Dickens' remains shot from a cannon?

[megaloman]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Yes, but were Dickens' remains shot from a cannon?

No fool, a man of Dickens stature didn’t feel the narcisstic self absorbative need to exclaim, LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME!!!” Form over substance, the modern day liberals gift to society.

And a cannon, wow, how intellectual, how meaningful, this act will resonate through the ages, much like his drunken and drugged escapades…….overgrown puerile frat boys will pay homage to the combination of explosives and inebriation for generations to come.

Frankly, my only regret here is that he didn’t think to skip a step and just stick the cannon up his ass to blow his brains out.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
More on Thompson

http://sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...DGAPBE2DK1.DTL

[megaloman]

Originally posted by LessinSF
http://sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...DGAPBE2DK1.DTL

"There are no new journalistic radicals willing to take such a risky, careening road to fame and glory......Objective truth is, of course, the great white myth of our time. It simply does not exist."

Apparently this Mark Morford, a infotainment writer of no esteem, has never heard of Josh Mica Marshall or the Daily Kos. Those hacks......er....radicals take the risky road of pretending objective truth does not exist, in pursuit of "journalism" on a daily basis.

ps: and how about the krazy kids at the DU? those punks are like Hunter's illegimate bastard children.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
If all you took away from HST was the drugs and the absurd stories, you missed the point. You really missed the point.

I think in your particular unique case I will not discount your literary tastes because you make poor decisions in your personal life. I think in your particular unique case I will discount your literary tastes because you have zero-level reading comprehension.

[Fugee]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
F&LinLV is not by far even close to his best book, or his finest work. For that, you should flip through The Great Shark Hunt and read "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved."

Sebby and Lester seem to be the biggest HST fans so I'll ask you two: I've never read any of his stuff but you've gotten me curious. What should I read first? If I were to only read one of his books, which one should it be?

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by Fugee
Sebby and Lester seem to be the biggest HST fans so I'll ask you two: I've never read any of his stuff but you've gotten me curious. What should I read first? If I were to only read one of his books, which one should it be?

You didn't ask me, but I'll answer anyway. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is great, and certainly the most quoted. I like Hells Angles a lot. But Sebby's got a point: the Kentucky Derby piece is something else.

And you can read it here!

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Fugee
Sebby and Lester seem to be the biggest HST fans so I'll ask you two: I've never read any of his stuff but you've gotten me curious. What should I read first? If I were to only read one of his books, which one should it be?

Sebby and I have had this debate before -- my vote goes to "Fear and Loathing On The Campaign Trail: 1972."

"The Great Shark Hunt" is the best of his collections of magazine articles and essays (I think that there are a bunch of them -- "Generation of Swine" and "Better than Sex" come to mind, but I am pretty sure that there are a few more).

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by megaloman
No fool, a man of Dickens stature didn’t feel the narcisstic self absorbative need to exclaim, LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME!!!” Form over substance, the modern day liberals gift to society.

And a cannon, wow, how intellectual, how meaningful, this act will resonate through the ages, much like his drunken and drugged escapades…….overgrown puerile frat boys will pay homage to the combination of explosives and inebriation for generations to come.

Frankly, my only regret here is that he didn’t think to skip a step and just stick the cannon up his ass to blow his brains out.

OK, I'll bite.

Sounds like somebody got cut from the house he wanted to get into.

Look, there is a certain fun in playing with gasoline and explosives. I've enjoyed it first hand, before I'd ever even read HST, whilst as you say, I was "drugged and drunken." Its actually kind of fun, but I admit, its got a very limited audience. And it isn't fun when you singe off all the hair on your legs and the front of your face when you mistake gas for lighter fluid (very different the the way they combust). Its just silliness. He needed some story arc within which to get across his more serious points.

Thompson was more a libertarian than liberal, assjack. What do you think of his boy, O'Rourke? I'll bet you like his new shit, but hate his old shit, right?

You're a chat board troll. I mean, really, if you're at all earnest, you're just... suchatool.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Sebby and I have had this debate before -- my vote goes to "Fear and Loathing On The Campaign Trail: 1972."

"The Great Shark Hunt" is the best of his collections of magazine articles and essays (I think that there are a bunch of them -- "Generation of Swine" and "Better than Sex" come to mind, but I am pretty sure that there are a few more).

Swine and Songs of the Doomed blow. He was a coke whore then. The only funny stuff is from the O'Farrell theatre material, and that's not even all that great.

I'd go with this order:

Shark Hunt
Campaign 72
Hell's Angels
F&L
Proud Highway I (the early letters are fantastic)
Songs of the Doomed
Swine

Screwjack is a nice read if you own a cat. Made me think about mine in a far different light. I now respect his very powerful sensuality.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Fugee
Sebby and Lester seem to be the biggest HST fans so I'll ask you two: I've never read any of his stuff but you've gotten me curious. What should I read first? If I were to only read one of his books, which one should it be?

Kentucky Derby is the finest. He nailed the hypocrisy of tradition, the fake "values" of polite society, the folly of the play those buffoons stage yearly. And you didn't realize the point until a day after you read it. You stopped and thought "Fuck, that motherfucker didn't just rip Kentucky. He ripped horseshitters and traditionalists in general." He turned the sacred upside down and said "This is what it really is." Thats what a good writer does. If he can make you enjoy the ride, then he's a great writer. I guess thats why Dickens' and Thompson's work will reside in the same library.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I think in your particular unique case I will not discount your literary tastes because you make poor decisions in your personal life. I think in your particular unique case I will discount your literary tastes because you have zero-level reading comprehension.

Dude, you NEED some new material. This only works when Stewart does it because his delivery is fantastic. You come off like a one trick pony. Sandler-esque. "Look at me. Crazy prose flippin' guy!"