Todd Terwilliger » take the ride http://www.toddterwilliger.com Web designer and developer, technical writer, and general man about town. Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:17:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Entering Bat Country http://www.toddterwilliger.com/blog/2009/01/23/entering-bat-country/ http://www.toddterwilliger.com/blog/2009/01/23/entering-bat-country/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:00:49 +0000 Todd http://www.toddterwilliger.com/?p=692 For reasons I can’t fathom, I never read Hunter S. Thompson. Any of it. I don’t know why. I just never got around to it. Even after I saw, and instantly adored, Terry Gilliam’s big screen version of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, I still did not rouse myself to pick up a copy of that or any other of the author’s work. Well, finally, after watching two Thompson documentaries over last weekend (Gonzo and Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride), I find myself staring at a shiny new copy of the Modern Library’s volume of Fear & Loathing.

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]]> For reasons I can’t fathom, I never read Hunter S. Thompson. Any of it. I don’t know why. I just never got around to it. Even after I saw, and instantly adored, Terry Gilliam’s big screen version of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, I still did not rouse myself to pick up a copy of that or any other of the author’s work. Well, finally, after watching two Thompson documentaries over last weekend (Gonzo and Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride), I find myself staring at a shiny new copy of the Modern Library’s volume of Fear & Loathing.

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