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Hunter S Thompson the father of Gozo journalism and is the person who documented the death of the American dream and is the person the films Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (his own book) and where the Buffalo roam are based upon.
He also wrote, Fear and loathing on the campaign trail 1972, Hells Angels, Kingdom of Fear, the rum diary and the great shark hunt and many other features for rolling stone and other magazines and is probably the most "entertaining" author I've ever encountered...
Sorry for my ignorance but what does he have to do with this? I'm not familiar with him at all...
That lolcat image is a parody of fear and loathing in las vegas, a film staring johnny depp and benicio del toro, which is based again on a book HST wrote by the same title.
That lolcat image is a parody of fear and loathing in las vegas, a film staring johnny depp and benicio del toro, which is based again on a book HST wrote by the same title.
Ohh ok, cheers for the clarification
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Not many people know this, but my great grandfather Aloysius "Gorilla" Koford, was also a cartoonist (see the video evidence here). From 1912-1913 he produced a comic strip which was featured in 17 newspapers, including the Philadephia Star-Democrat, the Tampa Telegraph, and the Santa Fe Good-Newser. The strip was entitled "the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats" and featured the exploits of one Meowlin Q. Kitteh (a sort of cat hobo-raconteur) and his young hapless kitten friend, Pip. The strip did not last long due to a run-in my great-grandfather had with none other than William Randolph Hearst.
See, the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats was syndicated by one of Hearst's competitors, so “Big Willy” (as Hearst was known in his day) used the bully pulpit of his media empire to hound and mock the efforts of my great-grandfather. Hearst scribes insinuated Aloysius was an actual trained gorilla and purported to have evidence in the form of banana shipping statements. (In reality, my great-grandfather was an expert climber and incredibly hirsute, and had earned the nickname in college.) Pressures continued to mount and Aloysius hung up his pen after only a year of working on the strip. He turned to a life of quiet dignity as a steamer captain and part-time walrus hunter.
But the story doesn't have to end there.
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