"There is nothing subtle about tequila. It is pure throat constricting, sinus-clearing, brain-killing poison, the kind of booze your mama warned you about. Or should have warned you about. People who drink tequila remember those occasions differently than they remember beer or wine or even whiskey. Those drinks, you remember as fond relationships: 'I'm a wine drinker' or 'I love beer." Tequila, you remember as a series of one-night stands. Nobody who is sane loves tequila. For most people, it resides in embarrassing anecdotes -- stories that often begin, 'God, I can barely remember..." and end "...I have never been so sick." Yet there are a few connoisseurs, people who can appreciate and control a straight shot of tequila now and then."
-Christopher Darden
For years I've been buying, lending and all too frequently not getting back Hunter S. Thompson books.
It's gotten to the point that it's a running joke with my friends. When I visit them I shop through their bookshelves to see if they have one of my Thompson books that I can borrow. They, in turn, call me to see when I'll be returning it.
When I went to my buddy Al's memorial service I was surprised to find that he didn't have any of The Good Doctor's books at his house.
It was heart warming to find that when Al and his wife were traveling he carried four of my books in his rig: The Gonzo Way, The Proud Highway (The Fear and Loathing Letters, Volume One), Better Than Sex and The Great Shark Hunt.
When I travel for any length of time I always carry books with me.
I didn't know how long the trip would be when I went to Al's memorial service. I couldn't think of a better time, though, to pick a book off the shelf that I had for a long time and never read, Payne Stewart (The Authorized Biography).
Payne's widow Tracey did a wonderful job, writing with Ken Abraham, sharing the story of Payne Stewart's golf career as well as the life they shared.
I am frequently asked, by those who are are uninitiated, what book I would recommend to be the first Hunter S. Thompson book to read.
While it's his best known, I don't recommend Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I point people, instead, to The Great Shark Hunt and suggest they read one of my favorite selections, The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved.
The other book I recommend, for those interested in learning about Hunter S. Thompson as a person, is Fear and Loathing in America : The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976 (The Fear and Loathing Letters, Volume 2).
To truly understand Hunter S. Thompson, though, you need to read not a book written by him, but a book written about him, The Gonzo Way by Anita Thompson.
Anita worked for The Good Doctor, more or less as a researcher, prior to marrying him, for those who don't know, and the subtitle of The Gonzo Way is A Celebration of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.
The Gonzo Way is constructed around seven lessons Anita learned from Hunter which I'll share with you here:
- Learning--That's What It's All About
- It's Wrong When It Stops Being Fun
- Politics Is the Art of Controlling Your Environment
- We Is the Most Important Word in Politics
- Truth Is Easier
- Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride
- Never Apologize, Never Explain
It amazes me sometimes that, after the years we've been together, TheSpecialOne still derives pleasure, and hungers to provide it in return, from photographs I shoot of butterflies.
The lesson to be learned, of course, is that great sex comes, first and foremost, from being interested in learning what brings your partner joy and going above and beyond the call to deliver.
There are few things in life that make you feel more alive than a debaucherous encounter.
Since returning from The Last Road Trip I haven't been able to get enough sex, as though that was ever possible, but, then, perhaps I'm not trying hard enough Ho Ho
It was a treat having phone sex with TheSpecialOne last night; she's at her sister's house for a few days and, as always when she's away, sleeps better after a few orgasmic waves wash over her.
I never had phone sex with TheSpecialOne while The Redhead was in my bed before. Both of them found pleasure in it, The Redhead following directions from TheSpecialOne.
Later when GiGi joined us The Redhead took up TheSpecialOne's role. Needless to say, at this point I'm looking forward to the two of them returning from the grocery store.
This looks to be a good time to put a bit of polish on the next installment in the series of erotic stories I've been running, that I'm writing in collaboration with women, Tales of Ladies, Goddesses and Bitches.
Ciao
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