Comments on: Hunter Thompson's daily routine

By: rtb61

rtb61 — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 05:30:00 +0000

Hardly self destructive. He simply committed suicide when his aged body could no longer handle his preferred life style, all of it a choice.
At most I think he would have been offended that his body had not given up the ghost prior to this with a peaceful stroke or heart attack thus obviating the need for suicide.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:59:00 +0000

Italian people.

By: mysterymoil

mysterymoil — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:36:00 +0000

Who orders a whole plate of tomatoes, I mean, seriously?

By: welcomeabored

welcomeabored — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:31:00 +0000

If Hunter smoked all day, having a constant cloud of cigarette smoke around you can cover up alot of alchohol-perfumed butt stink. Maybe he farted like Franklin, but no one thought to comment. (My parents were both smokers and one was an alcoholic). Likewise with my aunt, although she rarely ate.

For me, drinking and eating are mutually exclusive; I can only do one or the other. I can’t decide which to be more amazed by: that he consumed drugs and alcohol like that every day, or that he lived to the age of 67. Talk about ’burning the candle at both ends’.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/burning-the-candle-at-both-ends.html

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:10:00 +0000

I was just surprised to find the snowcone had chivas on it, not snow.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:57:00 +0000

I guess that you’re not old enough to have lived through the 19A0s.

By: Edward Becerra

Edward Becerra — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:14:00 +0000

Maybe a hot tub OF Fetticine Alfredo? Damn, now I’m hungry… ^_^

By: aeryn

aeryn — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:00:00 +0000

Whatever anyone says, I’d like to give HST some props for having his first cup of coffee daily at “4:95″, a mystical time somehow between 3:50 and 4:15.

By: sockdoll

sockdoll — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 07:00:00 +0000

As your attorney, I advise you to take a hit out of the little brown bottle in my shaving kit. You won’t need much, just a tiny taste. Then seek more reliable sources of information about the actual lifestyle of HST.

He hated the word “lifestyle,” by the way.

By: redesigned

redesigned — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 06:12:00 +0000

why? i’ve know several people who dropped daily for years. like any substance, regular users are affected quite differently then occasional users. acid has a very different baseline after several days of consecutive use. have you ever been a daily user of acid?

i never firsthand had any knowledge of him dropping acid, although i’m sure he did from time to time. the drinking, smoking, coke, and weed, all sound about right though…as does the huge evening food binges at the tavern.

By: redesigned

redesigned — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:59:00 +0000

bumps not rails…when you are a long time user it doesn’t affect you the same way. you need bumps to maintain a normal energy level because you’ve screwed your adrenals.

By: redesigned

redesigned — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:56:00 +0000

there is a big difference between a “bump” and a “rail” or “line”

you most certainly can do “bumps” this frequently back to back to keep going and the energy up…rails…no f’n way would it be possible.

a long time user will more likely be doing small bumps to maintain “normal” then massive rails like a party user would.

imho.

By: redesigned

redesigned — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:54:00 +0000

when were you there? he may have toned it down at the end, i moved away in the early 90′s. as his neighbor, i can say this was certainly true some days…

By: redesigned

redesigned — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:51:00 +0000

i hate to be that guy…but you really shouldn’t assume that just because the biographer didn’t speak to him directly doesn’t mean she got an inaccurate picture of his life in this regards. the man truly was epic.

i was his uphill next door neighbor for almost 5 years, and am a big fan of his writing.

while this schedule might not have been true every day, it sounds about right for one of his frequent benders. he’d be on a bender as often as not.

i still remember the day he decided to try and shoot down don johnson’s helicopter because it flew over his land while he was trying to write. the cops came tearing down our road and it ended up with him yelling at them in his yard, from what i could make out it sounded like he felt he was “within his rights” to shoot down anything that flew over his land.

between him and the damn peacock farm of the other neighbor, interrupted sleep was a common occurrence.

one of my friends who was a waitress at the woody creek tavern said that he was just one of the many colorful characters that regularly frequented their establishment. the woody creek tavern was one of the more interesting places to drink. :-)

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:44:00 +0000

Few people seem to be familiar with the build-up of tolerance most of those drugs would create with steady use.

The only one that I question is the cocaine, just because he’d be unlikely to have much of a septum left. Replace the coke with Ritalin or Dexedrine and suddenly the list looks like a fairly standard binge for a grad student trying to crank out a thesis.

I’m not saying it’s healthy or sustainable (or cheap), but I’m betting there were years when this wasn’t far off from HST’s diet.

By: hewr0te

hewr0te — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:28:00 +0000

all that coke and whiskey, but no blow jobs… poor slob of a writer

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:16:00 +0000

Many of us here in Palm Springs could get through that list before lunch.

By: Jason Weisberger

Jason Weisberger — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:09:00 +0000

If you get sick, I will send you a bottle.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:32:00 +0000

Was he insane? Did he not know that grapefruit has dangerous interactions with many drugs?

By: tyger11

tyger11 — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:19:00 +0000

Nah, not enough farting to be Benjamin Franklin.

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:11:00 +0000

Thanks for the other perspective, Jay, but I still enjoyed it nonetheless.

By: Dave Horton

Dave Horton — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:44:00 +0000

E. Jean Carroll only wrote four books in her life, and this was her only major biography. It was largely ignored, and mostly panned by anyone who read it. Hunter and his family dismissed the book. She certainly didn’t know him and likely never even met him. HST fans know that a lot of the legend is overblown hype. I feel a bit lightheaded. Maybe you should drive.

By: rastronomicals

rastronomicals — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:32:00 +0000

Dude, blueelm i agreed with your first two sentences, and then we part company. 1) it’s not boring 2) Not everyone does that 3) Plenty of people wanted to know him. Ask Mssrs. Murray, Depp, Richards, etc. 4) Getting to know the real man is one of the ways that art happens. In fact it’s the *usual* way, Thompson’s fantasies being a very rare exception. 5) It IS how art works. 6) There was a real man, and the shame was how all the talent got buried under the rest of the admittedly fun bullshit.
Other than that, good comment.

By: creesto

creesto — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:22:00 +0000

I read the article as “Chivas with the morning poppers…” still works.

By: Datavist

Datavist — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:21:00 +0000

A minute spent on Google confirms my suspicions that this is horseshit, though use of the word apocryphal should be a red flag.

By: Vern

Vern — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:14:00 +0000

Christ, what an asshole.

By: Maggie Koerth-Baker

Maggie Koerth-Baker — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:06:00 +0000

That’s okay, I’d prefer to have Basil Hayden, anyway.

By: Chris Parry ™

Chris Parry ™ — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:57:00 +0000

There was a real man, and a supremely genuine, and talented, one at that. He lived the way he wanted to live, from go to whoa, and happily took the good with the bad in order to squeeze every drop out of his existence.

He didn’t want to sell insurance and retire to Palm Springs. He wanted to leave a mark. And he did.

By: Chris Parry ™

Chris Parry ™ — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:54:00 +0000

Hunter did a lot of coke, but it wasn’t back to back like this. It was one element of a drug regimen that he knew very well, and used specifically to maintain balance. A little coke now, a little ether later during a swim, a lot of whiskey, several joints, maybe a pre-writing snort to get back to the edge and go.

By: Chris Parry ™

Chris Parry ™ — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:51:00 +0000

Agreed. I spent a night at HST’s pad, and the above is nothing close to what he did.

Let me be clear, he did a LOT of things that would make as interesting a list, but none of this rings true. At all. In fact, Thompson and his wife talked about that list directly and how bullshit it was.