Casino Review
It seems I have chosen about the worst day possible to review Las Vegas casinos. Dr Gonzo has left us to our own devices. I came late to the party on Thompson’s writing. I am just a little too young to have enjoyed the “hippie” culture and I am just a little too conservative to really buy the “government is evil” slant on life. Or perhaps I am just to sober to experience the paranoia necessary to fear all authority.
It is interesting that all the obit’s mentioned Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and said that HST had pioneered the Gonzo Journalism concept. Doesn’t it seem odd to anyone that not one journalist working today engages in the Gonzo style? Apparently event the copy writers on the obit desk don’t really care about HST. I read in a newspaper interview given in the early eighties that HST called F&L in Las Vegas the ultimate Gonzo failure. It proved that the style could not work. In the same article the author asked HST how his life had changed in the 10 years since F & L, Thompson’s reply was that he found it difficult to rent hotel rooms. Personally I find Hell’s Angels to be a great read and his collections of political writings, while misdirected, are very amusing.
His end, while sudden, is far from surprising. His last article on the ESPN site discusses a new sport he is (was) developing which involved golf and guns. I am disappointed that he will no longer make the national news for his random acts of violence or a paranoid freak out. On the upside, his assistant probably will never work for another writer that shoots her. The only thing left is to wait for Trudeau to write the final epitaph for Uncle Duke.
It is interesting that all the obit’s mentioned Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and said that HST had pioneered the Gonzo Journalism concept. Doesn’t it seem odd to anyone that not one journalist working today engages in the Gonzo style? Apparently event the copy writers on the obit desk don’t really care about HST. I read in a newspaper interview given in the early eighties that HST called F&L in Las Vegas the ultimate Gonzo failure. It proved that the style could not work. In the same article the author asked HST how his life had changed in the 10 years since F & L, Thompson’s reply was that he found it difficult to rent hotel rooms. Personally I find Hell’s Angels to be a great read and his collections of political writings, while misdirected, are very amusing.
His end, while sudden, is far from surprising. His last article on the ESPN site discusses a new sport he is (was) developing which involved golf and guns. I am disappointed that he will no longer make the national news for his random acts of violence or a paranoid freak out. On the upside, his assistant probably will never work for another writer that shoots her. The only thing left is to wait for Trudeau to write the final epitaph for Uncle Duke.
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