So what did Hunter S Thompson say?

[Boxerboy]

http://www.wilkinsonbrothers.com/MvR/OneCylinderTR250W.mov

I hope y'all enjoy this. I did! :)

[DJ Down Under]

Great...I had to laugh with his miles to kilometer calculation....I also cringe when I see no gloves...great clip.

I had my headphones on..I was pulling the plug in and out trying to get the right channel to work in the beginning.

DJ

[Sir Limpsalot]

That's priceless!! as Hunter.S.Thompson might say. Or, er, might not.

Si.

[geechie]

I'm thinkin' HST woulda said, "Now that's some funny shit, right there."

George

[fganger]

I loved it.:eusa_clap: :eusa_clap: :eusa_clap:

More, we need more.:) :) :)

[Promethean]

I didn't get any sound...odd.

[GPM]

Ah yes, Hunter S. Thompson. Here ya go....

Sausage Creature (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html)

[DarthRider]

I hadn't read "The Song of the Sausage Creature" in quite a while, thanks for posting it Harry!

I spent a delicious sunny, spring afternoon in Austin, Texas once astride a perfectly restored and perfectly fettled, lovely Vincent Black Shadow. Actually, the one our hero Peter Egan bought some months later. I am forever grateful that I had the opportunity to ride this masterpiece, also very grateful I don't own one!

In 1969-1970 I had a new "white-tank" '69 Kawasaki H-1 500cc Triple. That was another experience for which I will always be grateful. Grateful the damn thing didn't succeed in killing me, which it tried to do every damn time I rode it. The terror of "Weapons of Mass Destruction" pales to the terror wrought by these "Weapons of Singular Destruction"! I don't know how anyone ever survived these beasts, but I fully understand Hunter S.'s reference to "...when I walk into a public restroom and hear crippled men whispering about the terrifying Kawasaki Triple..."
I didn't know he heard me...

Ah yes, and the marvelous Italian sex and death machine, the Ducati 900 Super Sport. Mine was two years the junior of the one in the pic with Thompson. Again, our experiences are somewhat parallel. I loved that red beauty like no other but she repaid be both by saving my sorry ass from the Sausage Creature, and leading me repeatedly down the curvy path to his lair. She was too good. Better than me usually but allowing me to get away with things I shouldn't, and teaching me things that would get me hurt later. Of course our newly formed Ducati Club was "106 Octane Leaded Premium" thrown on my and her fire, and we all should have died on many occasions, but did not. "Cafe racers" all, of the type Hunter S. would have approved.
Then I sold her and, alas, learned too late the wisdom of more seasoned Ducatisti: "You never sell Ducatis, you only buy them".

And one other thought drifted by as I re-read "Sausage Creature" once more. Hunter S. Thompson is gone but do you feel that our own Wild Will may be filling that void for some of us? Similar writing styles, similar experiences, similar outlooks...both intimates of The Sausage Creature and teller of his tales?

[Promethean]

Very entertaining.....along the lines of WW. Btw, where is that dude?


Ah yes, Hunter S. Thompson. Here ya go....

Sausage Creature (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html)

[GPM]

Very entertaining.....along the lines of WW. Btw, where is that dude?

Alas, no longer with us.

Hunter's Demise (http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/02/21/thompson.obit/)

[Deans BMW]

Bro Dave wrote,


And one other thought drifted by as I re-read "Sausage Creature" once more. Hunter S. Thompson is gone but do you feel that our own Wild Will may be filling that void for some of us? Similar writing styles, similar experiences, similar outlooks...both intimates of The Sausage Creature and teller of his tales?
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After spending a handful of days with WW and reading his writing, definitely Hunter Thompson reincarnet.

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[geechie]

I don't know, Dean. While I liked some of HST's writing, there was always an edge to it that made me think that he wasn't an altogether happy dude. WW strikes me as much more (forgive the pschobabble, please) well-adjusted. And I mean that in a positive way. I think it's an asset to have your wits about you.

But I could be wrong.

George

[DarthRider]

I don't know, Dean. While I liked some of HST's writing, there was always an edge to it that made me think that he wasn't an altogether happy dude. WW strikes me as much more (forgive the pschobabble, please) well-adjusted. And I mean that in a positive way. I think it's an asset to have your wits about you.

But I could be wrong.

George

I agree George...but that is the only substantive difference I can observe between Hunter S., whom I never met, and my friend Wild Will, whom I have also never met. At least not in person. Yet.

[DJ Down Under]

More... http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html

DJ

[socalrob]

DJ,

Thanks for the post. I'd forgotton what a gifted writer HST was. I recall reading his "Hells Angels" book in college, a great read for any rider. Genius is often a close companion of insanity. HST walked that fine line between the two.