The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end No safety or surprise, the end I'll never look into your eyes again Can you picture what will be So limitless and free Desperately in need of some stranger's hand In a desperate land Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain And all the children are insane Waiting for the summer rain There's…
Bukowski
Area of Pause you have to have it or the walls will close in. you have to give everything up, throw it away, everything away. you have to look at what you look at or think what you think or do what you do or don’t do without considering personal advantage without accepting guidance. people are worn away with striving. they hide in common habits. Their concerns are herd concerns. few have the ability to stare at an old shoe…
On the Hunter
Separating fact from fiction in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' By Corey Levitan (Las Vegas Review-Journal) That author Hunter S. Thompson and his friend, attorney Oscar Zeta Acosta, visited Las Vegas in 1971 is a fact. There are photographs and witnesses. But what exactly happened, and how much of it resembles the book forever entwining Thompson's name with Las Vegas? To commemorate the fifth anniversary of Thompson's death on Saturday, we attempted to separate the fact from the fiction…