Jules Siegel on Hunter S Thompson

[John Carvill]

Apologies if previously posted. Just stumbled upon this...

'DECONSTRUCTING HUNTER S. THOMPSON' by Jules Siegel

Naturally, the main subject of Jules's piece is Jules, but it's still
worth a look. Particularly relevant to recent discussions of drugs in
'Inherent Vice', eg.:

"To me, Hunter S. Thompson was a literary Cheech and Chong. In 1980, I
saw my first Cheech and Chong movie---the one with Timothy Leary
acting an ugly caricature of himself in a prison cell. I did not laugh
once. I came away disgusted, with the feeling that they were
government agents on a mission to discredit marijuana users. In
retrospect, I decided that they were adaptions to a certain media
slot---the dopey doper--- rather than conscious agents of some DEA
conspiracy highly paid to mock their own kind in the most
stereotypical terms possible."

http://www.blacklistedjournalist.com/column116a.html