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...The list of books on the US electoral system, as recommended by FT specialists (Life & Arts, March 23) inexplicably omits Hunter S Thompson’s masterpiece Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72....
...His heroine, the shape-shifting monster Shesheshen, falls in love with Homily, a monster hunter motivated by the fact that her own family has been cursed by a creature called the Wyrm of Underlook....
...It’s a compilation of songs by western musicians, including Jackson Browne, Marianne Faithfull and Richard Thompson....
...Others in the coalescing London folk-rock scene to which he became attached marvelled at his guitar-playing; fellow singer-songwriter Richard Thompson thought he was “quite extraordinary”....
...“I do think there should be good opportunities to buy assets at good valuations over the next five years,” said Ronald Thompson, Hong Kong-based managing director of Alvarez & Marsal, which specialises in...
...Colorado Three blocks west along Main Street from the venerable Hotel Jerome where Hunter S Thompson held court, Mollie Aspen is a swish reinvention of what was the three-star Molly Gibson Lodge....
...He was joined by guitarist Phil Manzanera, saxophonist Andy Mackay and drummer Paul Thompson from Roxy Music’s 1972 line-up. The original band’s chief technologist, Brian Eno, was absent....
...The weed gummy may have kicked in, because we start talking about things like isn’t it crazy how our devices reflect our consciousness, and sometimes I think about how Hunter S Thompson had a party and they...
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...And from Hunter S Thompson, though not to me: “Buy the ticket, take the ride.” It’s important to be all-in....
...The album’s varied moods are true to the original spirit of lovers rock, whose signature songs went from swooning romance such as Carroll Thompson’s “Hopelessly in Love” to the bittersweet sentiments of...
...From mushroom-derived psilocybin to LSD, mescaline — Hunter S Thompson’s favourite — and ayahuasca-compound DMT, mind-altering substances are back, baby....
...Other famous figures to dabble in the look include Gonzo writer Hunter S Thompson and Marlon Brando, and more recently Billie Eilish and actors Chris Pratt and Bill Murray, who paired the cheap and cheerful...
...Back before the Married Woman’s Property Act of 1870, abducting a young heiress was the easiest way for a fortune hunter to obtain her wealth....
...Gillespie mostly treats his band’s druggy reputation as an excuse for Hunter S Thompson-style gonzo anecdotes. The dangers of addiction lie outside the book’s ambit....
...Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice 1967-1975by Richard Thompson, with Scott Timberg, Faber & Faber £20/Algonquin Books $27.95 Thompson’s memoir opens with the folk-rocker facing a fog of...
...Who Luxury Portfolio International, Village Properties Vineyard, Glen Ellen, $5mn Where About 10 miles west of the Napa Valley in the village of Glen Ellen, where authors Jack London and Hunter S Thompson...
...This, plus his scurrilous wit and vaunted capacity for substance abuse, put him closer to Hunter S Thompson than William F Buckley, a peculiarity of style that made him, some said, “the rightwinger [that...
...Thompson last week argued in court that the new measures used “normal, lawful process of justice in Texas” and were not a “vigilante scheme”....
...William Thompson, who defended the statute in oral arguments for the Texas attorney-general’s office, last week argued in court that the new measures used “normal, lawful process of justice in Texas” and...
...Hunter S Thompson, the US journalist and author, once said: “When the going turns weird, the weird turn pro.”...
...Pale flowers that bloom at night support insects they feed on, says Shirley Thompson of the BCT. Tubular blooms such as honeysuckle attract the moths favoured by long-eared bats....
...Gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson wrote a spoof story for Rolling Stone magazine about a presidential candidate taking it in the 1972 campaign....
...Along the way, there are cameos for real life figures, such as the Hawaiian Olympic swimmer Duke Kahanamoku and the gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson (a friend of Theroux)....
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