• cmbabul@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The Good Doctor is the only person who died before the shitshow we find ourselves in today both politically and economically whose opinions on it I really want to hear. In football terms he and his writings always had incredible down the field vision in part because he had such a firm grasp on the cultural flows of the present and the national temperature of the US people.

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      9 months ago

      Now I have to dig out “…On The Campaign Trail” and reread the part where he writes about talking football with Nixon.

      A lot of people told me that I should watch the series “The Deuce” with Maggie Gyllenhaal. I stopped watching ten minutes into the first episode because they had a pimp recite some of Thompson’s wisdom as if the writers had come up with it on their own.

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        9 months ago

        Hunter’s influence is everywhere but it is infuriating when someone tries to claim some sort of brilliance he wrote down 50 years ago. I need to read hells angels again it’s been a decade at this point but it will have to wait until I both start and finish the illuminatist tirlogy. I read his 9/11 article regularly just to get a fix for his particular voice and perspective