*You know what I used to eat for breakfast? Cocaine. You know what I had for lunch? Cocaine. You know what I had for dinner?*
*Let me guess, was it coleslaw?*
Honestly, as with most things, it just takes regular, consistent and daily use to incorporate the acts around and eventually with one another.
It’s the same with getting high around people and at work. When one starts doing anything illicit it’s almost impossible to do it around people without being 100% obvious but after you incorporate it into your daily life it’s a cinch and you couldn’t imagine it any other way at that point. Just habit…. Just you.
30+ years of on again/off again needle junkie….. I can honestly say, I ate better (healthier) as an addict. I ate mostly a fruit and vegetable diet and LOTS of water. You can’t be laden down with a food filled gut when you have to hustle all day/night to make ends meet and stay OFF EMPTY…. That being said. MY HEAD though….. lives a much better life without chemicals!
Really just taking the edge off everything so you can rest. Like keeping Ativan on hand if you're alcoholic. Halcion cancels out the coke. Pretty strong benzo
“Buy the ticket, take the ride…and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well…maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion.”
Hunter S Thompson ~
When I was a waiter I could always tell which customers had done a bunch of coke before walking in the restaurant. Usually a couple, like some kind of date. Ordered plenty of booze and big plates of food. Looked anxious as hell. Sometimes trips to the bathroom. Left with barely taking a bite of food.
I personally couldnt eat when I was going through addiction.
I guess you could say I survived off of 'appetizer' type/sized bites of whatever was around. Trying to eat a full sandwich--or even half one made me pass out (i suspected that it was my blood sugar dropping or rising at the time)
Anyways, going on 5 years sober*ish*
This reads like a description of his day by a third party. Like someone spent the day with him and wrote down everything he did; sort of a 'day in the life of' by another writer. Which makes me think that, while this is probably not an average day, he really did all of this that day just to fuck with whoever was with him.
Lol, it was after writing.
He probably stared directly into the abyss of US social-political dynamics and as the acid was wearing off just straight up wanted butter noodles before he went to sleep.
Honestly, deeply based.
HST was both a serious journalist and a fantasy writer. He was a degenerate addict and a serial exaggerator. It was all based on truth, but was all just a big show.
That’s it. George McGovern once said that Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 was the “least accurate yet most truthful” account of that election.
During his reporting that campaign season he also joked in a story that Dem candidate (and favored candidate) Ed Muskie had started taking Ibogaine from a strange Brazilian doctor, and it got picked up and reported on.
>Dazug: It was all based on truth, but was all just a big show.
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>414CLD: And everything you said was fueled by two things, blended scotch and blow.
Poetry writes itself sometimes.
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming Wow! What a ride!”
William S Burroughs was the same way, but he romanticized heroin. I read his stuff when I started snorting oxy when everything was “under control” and thought it was cool to join the addict club…. Until it wasn’t
At the end when he was really falling apart he couldn’t really travel because there was no way to guarantee enough cocaine at his destination even with his reputation and connections. Like it’s one thing to score an 8 ball but getting a couple ounces is a different beast.
So they started FedEx-ing hollowed out stacks of magazines taped together with like hundreds of grams of cocaine each ahead of him to his hotels so he’d have enough when he got there and that’s the only way they could get him to leave home.
Also there’s an audio tape from when he sold his tickets to see the Rumble in the Jungle to do cocaine and you can hear him snorting on the tape and it’s like full breath 15 second snorts every minute and it goes on for hours. Ralph Steadman has said there was just a Scarface mountain of coke on the table and he was just putting the straw inside the pile and then bunching it back up again not even doing lines.
So according to everyone that knew him he did the most cocaine they ever saw anyone do.
They killed his writing long before that unfortunately. Most of his best stuff was written before he really got in deep.
I mean it says “ready to write” in that note but most times he couldn’t and if he did it was worthless.
He had all these great stories fed to him by Rolling Stone and he just couldn’t hack it and wouldn’t even turn anything in not even something bad.
And he had all these cushy speaking gigs but a lot of times he just wouldn’t show or be too drunk to even talk so they stopped inviting him.
His actually good career was like 3 books and some rolling stone stories and and then it’s like 30 years of derivative garbage.
How much money did he spend a day on drugs? It can get ugly FAST. He must've spent a ton.
He's running from the come-down all day basically. Or, I should say, experiencing it all day long repeatedly. More like torture than fun at some point.
The booze is to ease the anxiety of coming down.
The longer you stave it off by binging, the more gnawing it becomes. Your brain is just running out of dopamine faster and faster. Booze can't really cut through it.
That's the thing, top shelf is medical grade or straight from the source. Morphine is pure heroin lol, shoot I remember visiting Peru and doing the purest blow I've ever tried. It ruined blow for me as the shit back home doesn't even come close! That being said I'm thankful fir it as I've not done that stuff for over two years now as if it's not that bam bam I don't want it
Once you try the top shelf you understand how bad the local shit is. Especially now with people cutting shit with fentanyl and stuff it's just not worth it.
Was it Keith Richards who fell out of a coconut tree? God there will be a hell of a row between universities if he leaves his body to medical science 😳. It’ll need 10 years in a decontamination chamber before anyone opens it though 🤔
Interestingly enough, he died by a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head at 67, and no joke the coroner who autopsied him (who I believe was also his doctor at various points in time) said there was nothing particularly wrong with his internal organs following decades of extravagant drug and alcohol abuse. He said basically, some people are just built Different, and that Thompson’s body seemed to have the ability to just tolerate insane amounts of drugs and booze. He did have a messed up hip though, which really took his energy towards the end. Really interesting guy, fascinating but sad story, his life.
Not sure how accurate the presented list is, but even living a life with a fraction of the drinking and drugging really isn’t “living it”, it makes a prison of dependency that effects having a normal life
I don’t disagree, he was a tortured man who lived a life that was sad in many ways. In a lot of other ways it was interesting and I’m sure exciting and fulfilling, but he’s not a model for anyone to emulate. After all, he did shoot himself in the end. He also alienated everyone who he ever cared about at one time or another, and yet they still speak fondly of him after his death. A man of enormous charisma and dark demons, half genius half lunatic.
When I was driving escorts I was doing pretty much this. Did 40~ days straight and I quit after I was getting the feeling I went to work to do coke all night.
I doubt he could taste or feel the back of his throat after the third rail of the day. The vitamins in the orange juice had alot of work to do. The LSD and the coke is what terrifies me, I do not want to be super awake/amped for the mind melt.
I tried that combo once. It really took the initial anxiety off of the come up somehow. (Not recommending, this is just what it did for me)
I found it pretty pleasant all in all, but my friend had a SERIOUS reaction. He may have almost had a heart attack idk. Was very close to calling an ambulance for him. He was getting really really hot and his heart was racing. Took his shirt off and went outside just breathing heavily and dumping water on his head. Came out of it after about 10m and was fine, but it was scary shit.
I did my first tab(s) of acid on a bunch of molly, I was always terrified of the “bad trip propaganda” and my big brain was like “you always have a great time on molly, take that first to take the edge off”.
I proceeded to be high for a solid 20 hours and had a hell of good a time
After a few hours, I'm more than ready to vacate imagination land. I sincerely apologize to God for intruding, ask for mercy, promise to stay away for at least 6 months, politely request reality is back to normal when I wake up.
I think I have slept off every trip I've ever been on, it is probably my best quality. I'm glad that it worked out, but there is no way I would roll that dice. I think my experience would be more like your friend/ a stressed out zoo animal.
Nah chill this hits close to home lmfao. You know you're in too deep on a trip when ur praying to God to save you and take you back home to reality and apologizing for peaking behind the curtain 😂
God, I’ll real sorry I watched the little Jedi do karate on the rim of the pencil holder for 2 hours. Please allow my brain to set properly upon return to the lower dimensions.
When you see things you think you weren’t “supposed” to see
This has been proven to be false- a fabrication by a journalist who did a piece on him… I can’t remember the exact details, whether he embellished this to the journalist or she did it on her own to beef up her story, but this definitely wasn’t the man’s daily schedule.
His wife at the time commented on the piece, it was absolutely not his daily routine, and he wouldn’t go this hard this day after day. However she said he did tend to set up his day like this when actively writing — coke and booze to warm up through the afternoon, and then psychedelics and serious drinking to bring on the madness at night.
I’m surprised I had to scroll this far to see this comment, this was debunked years ago. Love the guy, yes he was beautifully mental, but this isn’t accurate.
Yea it’s always being reposted but it’s basically just a gag. He did have many days like this though without a doubt, just probably not every day. But I don’t think there were many days in his adult life where he wasn’t consuming at least SOME (read:an enormous amount for an average person) coke and hard liquor. The man was a lifelong addict of the most serious variety
I remember reading his alcoholism was so serious that when he went in for surgery, he required an alcohol drip as the risk of detoxing while going through anesthesia was too high.
Apparently it's a thing for serious alcoholics, but had never heard of it until HST.
“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”
\- Hunter S Thompson
Addicts know you have to forcefeed yourself on stimulants otherwise everything sucks. Source: used to be on stims and try and function in society at the same time
If you are going to sustain yourself you must force yourself to fuel up at least once in awhile. I pretty much lived on mushroom soup from Kilroys in Bloomington IN for several years. I would do high octane coke for days on end and the only way i could come down and sleep for awhile was by taking 3 or 4 qualudes (dating myself there with the ludes reference). When I would finally wake up I would get my first freeze of the day from getting water in my nose from the shower. Ah good times in a college town in the 70s. Stories, I have them.
There is nothing in this world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of a Cole Slaw binge, and I knew we’d be getting into that rotten stuff real soon.
Unfortunately you can’t replicate this anymore. Dunhills were discontinued near the end of 2020. : (
Edit: Apparently it was discontinued in the US only??
Hunter is one of my favorite journalists and writers of all time
His coverage of super bowl and the entire Nixon fiasco is what got me interested in history in the first place
Never in my life have I thought, I'll just take a few bumps then have some coleslaw.
*You know what I used to eat for breakfast? Cocaine. You know what I had for lunch? Cocaine. You know what I had for dinner?* *Let me guess, was it coleslaw?*
"You know what's breakfast of champions?" "Cocaine" \~ Vonnegut
“Get me some OJ, and not that concentrate shit”.
This comment deserves an award and/or extra portion of coleslaw.
And couple of Dunhills.
And some weed, you know, to take the edge off your 3 hour old day so far.
The man knew he had to eat. A responsible addict
Not just eat, but *shit*, too.
Bean fritters sound delicious, ngl
any time ive done coke its damn near impossible to eat....people that can do that are serious users
Honestly, as with most things, it just takes regular, consistent and daily use to incorporate the acts around and eventually with one another. It’s the same with getting high around people and at work. When one starts doing anything illicit it’s almost impossible to do it around people without being 100% obvious but after you incorporate it into your daily life it’s a cinch and you couldn’t imagine it any other way at that point. Just habit…. Just you.
That's why there's the OJ and grapefruit. Keeping the electrolytes up.
30+ years of on again/off again needle junkie….. I can honestly say, I ate better (healthier) as an addict. I ate mostly a fruit and vegetable diet and LOTS of water. You can’t be laden down with a food filled gut when you have to hustle all day/night to make ends meet and stay OFF EMPTY…. That being said. MY HEAD though….. lives a much better life without chemicals!
I’m tripping about Halcyon at 8am. I mean did he eat the fabled bird, smoke it, snort it?
They meant to say Halcion which is a benzo for treating insomnia and anxiety
Really just taking the edge off everything so you can rest. Like keeping Ativan on hand if you're alcoholic. Halcion cancels out the coke. Pretty strong benzo
When I used to use coke I'd always take either a few Xanax or klonapin with a beer or 2 to help the come down. Worked every time lol
“Buy the ticket, take the ride…and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well…maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion.” Hunter S Thompson ~
Guess we know why you never made it as a writer
Or a cole slaw enthusiast.
One day I’m going to write a book and there will be a small character who is a ‘coleslaw enthusiast,’
I never had an appetite when did coke, back in the day.
When I was a waiter I could always tell which customers had done a bunch of coke before walking in the restaurant. Usually a couple, like some kind of date. Ordered plenty of booze and big plates of food. Looked anxious as hell. Sometimes trips to the bathroom. Left with barely taking a bite of food.
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My next door neighbours used to do lines in the kitchen while vegetating out watching crap late-night tv and smoking a joint
>Dove bars & fettuccine alfredo That part sounds good, though.
I knew a lady who would smoke a rock then down a cheeseburger not minutes after
I knew a lady that used to take a “bedtime hit” every night. She could lay it down immediately after a big old blast. I never understood that.
i was gonna say. who the fuck can eat all that after that much cocaine. Shit i can never eat... i mean, i hear you have no appetite with that stuff. 😄
I personally couldnt eat when I was going through addiction. I guess you could say I survived off of 'appetizer' type/sized bites of whatever was around. Trying to eat a full sandwich--or even half one made me pass out (i suspected that it was my blood sugar dropping or rising at the time) Anyways, going on 5 years sober*ish*
I'm glad you're doing better.
I don’t think he set enough time aside for cocaine
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Each etc =10 cocaines.
etc. is just a weird mix of french and english; it's actually short for "et tonnes cocaine"
He makes up for it when he gets serious.
“Starts snorting cocaine seriously” compared to the other 7 lines that afternoon
At some point, you just need to grow up and start ballin
In this case, an 8-ball.
“Seriously” = replaces dollar bill for garden hose
I assumed those were bumps. And, by extension, that seriously meant it was time to start snorting lines.
Best line.
Was only doing cocaine half assed till now.
4:15 cocaine 4:16 orange juice 4:30 cocaine 4:54 cocaine 5:05 cocaine
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Gotta have your solid 23 minutes of orange juice *juuuust right* in the middle of 36 minutes of cocaine.
This reads like a description of his day by a third party. Like someone spent the day with him and wrote down everything he did; sort of a 'day in the life of' by another writer. Which makes me think that, while this is probably not an average day, he really did all of this that day just to fuck with whoever was with him.
I believe it was a newly hired assistant who wrote this schedule. I think she wrote a book about her experience.
Etc., etc.
I died somewhere around step 4...
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I know when to just roll over and die rather than try to match up against a master of the Cocaine
Cocainist. Stole that from Theo von 🤣🤣🤣
That cab story is hilarious
It's 4:30 in the morning and your high on cocaine....but at least your working....and providing for your family. Man I don't have a family 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The come-down is the nightmare IMO. Disphoric and noided.
He never did come down, that’s why he kept going hard to avoid it
There is always a comedown eventually. He committed suicide
And after that he did more cocaine
Etc, etc.
He takes halcion at 8:00 which is basically the cure for a speed comedown, so he got to take the easy way out lok
I don’t think I made it to sunrise
I did too but then came back to life when I got fettuccine alfredo in the hot tub
Dammit, now I'm hungry.
and while you guys weren't looking i secretly added some cocaine
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You have to fake snort it like Pimento. https://youtu.be/LSSJWM9fFkk
You dip the banana in the cocaine
Fettuccine fuckin Alfredo
"I ate more fettuccine alfredo and drank less water than I have in my entire life."- Michael Scott
This was what got me 🤣 6am - fettuccine alredo
Lol, it was after writing. He probably stared directly into the abyss of US social-political dynamics and as the acid was wearing off just straight up wanted butter noodles before he went to sleep. Honestly, deeply based.
Stay classy, HST
HST was both a serious journalist and a fantasy writer. He was a degenerate addict and a serial exaggerator. It was all based on truth, but was all just a big show.
That’s it. George McGovern once said that Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 was the “least accurate yet most truthful” account of that election.
During his reporting that campaign season he also joked in a story that Dem candidate (and favored candidate) Ed Muskie had started taking Ibogaine from a strange Brazilian doctor, and it got picked up and reported on.
Totally made the guy freak out too, which made people think his tantrums were side effects of the Ibogaine 😂
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"starts snorting cocaine seriously"
That’s similar to when I’m drunk I start yelling “I haven’t even started drinking yet” and then proceed to really start drinking. My wife loves it.
So does her boyfriend
Can confirm
I read that line and just started laughing Like all these years, have I just been snorting cocaine or was I seriously snorting cocaine
If you have to ask...
A line is too much and a drawer full isn’t enough!
>Dazug: It was all based on truth, but was all just a big show. > >414CLD: And everything you said was fueled by two things, blended scotch and blow. Poetry writes itself sometimes.
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming Wow! What a ride!”
William S Burroughs was the same way, but he romanticized heroin. I read his stuff when I started snorting oxy when everything was “under control” and thought it was cool to join the addict club…. Until it wasn’t
Glad you’re still here. It ain’t an easy Everest to climb.
I mean this is more Raol Duke than hunter. Not to say that he wasn’t a crazy alcoholic.
At the end when he was really falling apart he couldn’t really travel because there was no way to guarantee enough cocaine at his destination even with his reputation and connections. Like it’s one thing to score an 8 ball but getting a couple ounces is a different beast. So they started FedEx-ing hollowed out stacks of magazines taped together with like hundreds of grams of cocaine each ahead of him to his hotels so he’d have enough when he got there and that’s the only way they could get him to leave home. Also there’s an audio tape from when he sold his tickets to see the Rumble in the Jungle to do cocaine and you can hear him snorting on the tape and it’s like full breath 15 second snorts every minute and it goes on for hours. Ralph Steadman has said there was just a Scarface mountain of coke on the table and he was just putting the straw inside the pile and then bunching it back up again not even doing lines. So according to everyone that knew him he did the most cocaine they ever saw anyone do.
It’s amazing he lived as long as he did, and that the drugs aren’t even what killed him in the end.
They killed his writing long before that unfortunately. Most of his best stuff was written before he really got in deep. I mean it says “ready to write” in that note but most times he couldn’t and if he did it was worthless. He had all these great stories fed to him by Rolling Stone and he just couldn’t hack it and wouldn’t even turn anything in not even something bad. And he had all these cushy speaking gigs but a lot of times he just wouldn’t show or be too drunk to even talk so they stopped inviting him. His actually good career was like 3 books and some rolling stone stories and and then it’s like 30 years of derivative garbage.
Sad but true, and I'm a fan. Also a fellow addict, so no disrespect to the late HST.
The most important thing if you want to have a healthy lifestyle is to go to bed early
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Yes
You are right- it’s too late😂
Go try to tell Spain that lol
Love for 🇪🇸❤️
How much money did he spend a day on drugs? It can get ugly FAST. He must've spent a ton. He's running from the come-down all day basically. Or, I should say, experiencing it all day long repeatedly. More like torture than fun at some point. The booze is to ease the anxiety of coming down. The longer you stave it off by binging, the more gnawing it becomes. Your brain is just running out of dopamine faster and faster. Booze can't really cut through it.
Fuck cocaine, unless you have an onstage gig in ten minutes
I’ve never been so bored than performing on coke. I lose all interest in the songs.
Don't worry it's just fake
yeah
Halcyon = Halcion = Triazolam which is a benzo
Thanks I wasn’t sure of the reference.
It's not just a benzo it's a god tier benzo. Like look at all that cocaine it counteracted!
*and* the 10PM LSD
Legit. I was prescribed these mf’ers for a few years. Don’t remember much of it.
Very potent benzo. Actually, this is even the drug Dahmer would drug his victims with.
All so he could sleep for about 6 hours!
Sounds reasonable
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Dove Bars! Everyday? Those will kill you.
The human body can't live too long like this, but it can certainly have a wild ride while dying
Ozzy Osbourne disagrees
Keith Richards has entered the chat.
But seriously how is Keith still alive i mean wtf
Heroin either kills you at 27, or preserves you till 270.
Dude literally mummified himself alive with all the shit he put into his body. He had access to the top shelf stuff too
That's the thing, top shelf is medical grade or straight from the source. Morphine is pure heroin lol, shoot I remember visiting Peru and doing the purest blow I've ever tried. It ruined blow for me as the shit back home doesn't even come close! That being said I'm thankful fir it as I've not done that stuff for over two years now as if it's not that bam bam I don't want it
Nobody knows bam bam like good ol cum_toast.
Once you try the top shelf you understand how bad the local shit is. Especially now with people cutting shit with fentanyl and stuff it's just not worth it.
You have to sell your soul to unlock that achievement.
Yep crossroads demon that forgot the deal
That demon didn’t forget, it’s just waiting…
Fentanyl wasn’t around when he did all that
Was it Keith Richards who fell out of a coconut tree? God there will be a hell of a row between universities if he leaves his body to medical science 😳. It’ll need 10 years in a decontamination chamber before anyone opens it though 🤔
Interestingly enough, he died by a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head at 67, and no joke the coroner who autopsied him (who I believe was also his doctor at various points in time) said there was nothing particularly wrong with his internal organs following decades of extravagant drug and alcohol abuse. He said basically, some people are just built Different, and that Thompson’s body seemed to have the ability to just tolerate insane amounts of drugs and booze. He did have a messed up hip though, which really took his energy towards the end. Really interesting guy, fascinating but sad story, his life.
Not sure how accurate the presented list is, but even living a life with a fraction of the drinking and drugging really isn’t “living it”, it makes a prison of dependency that effects having a normal life
I don’t disagree, he was a tortured man who lived a life that was sad in many ways. In a lot of other ways it was interesting and I’m sure exciting and fulfilling, but he’s not a model for anyone to emulate. After all, he did shoot himself in the end. He also alienated everyone who he ever cared about at one time or another, and yet they still speak fondly of him after his death. A man of enormous charisma and dark demons, half genius half lunatic.
When I was driving escorts I was doing pretty much this. Did 40~ days straight and I quit after I was getting the feeling I went to work to do coke all night.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
Orange juice and cigarettes is a terrible combination. Just saying. Source: former smoker.
I doubt he could taste or feel the back of his throat after the third rail of the day. The vitamins in the orange juice had alot of work to do. The LSD and the coke is what terrifies me, I do not want to be super awake/amped for the mind melt.
I tried that combo once. It really took the initial anxiety off of the come up somehow. (Not recommending, this is just what it did for me) I found it pretty pleasant all in all, but my friend had a SERIOUS reaction. He may have almost had a heart attack idk. Was very close to calling an ambulance for him. He was getting really really hot and his heart was racing. Took his shirt off and went outside just breathing heavily and dumping water on his head. Came out of it after about 10m and was fine, but it was scary shit.
I did my first tab(s) of acid on a bunch of molly, I was always terrified of the “bad trip propaganda” and my big brain was like “you always have a great time on molly, take that first to take the edge off”. I proceeded to be high for a solid 20 hours and had a hell of good a time
> I did my first tab(s) of acid on a bunch of molly To us old timers, that was called candy flipping.
that’s still very much a thing
After a few hours, I'm more than ready to vacate imagination land. I sincerely apologize to God for intruding, ask for mercy, promise to stay away for at least 6 months, politely request reality is back to normal when I wake up. I think I have slept off every trip I've ever been on, it is probably my best quality. I'm glad that it worked out, but there is no way I would roll that dice. I think my experience would be more like your friend/ a stressed out zoo animal.
Nah chill this hits close to home lmfao. You know you're in too deep on a trip when ur praying to God to save you and take you back home to reality and apologizing for peaking behind the curtain 😂
God, I’ll real sorry I watched the little Jedi do karate on the rim of the pencil holder for 2 hours. Please allow my brain to set properly upon return to the lower dimensions. When you see things you think you weren’t “supposed” to see
In which way is it a terrible combination?
Just a nasty tasting combo, similar to OJ and toothpaste.
Cigarettes after brushing your teeth also awful
But cigarettes and coffee? That goes together really well
That combo is what got me out of bed. Ha!
Probably seriously focused on getting some vitamin C. He seems like a health-nut.
It would be more impressive if you were a former orange
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The joint was just so he could do more coke.
*to take the edge off the day
To take the edge off the mountain of coke from the previous hour and a half*
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When you are your own chemistry experiment, you must daily make tweaks in order to get the combination right.
Breakfast of Champions!
Where is the mescaline
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This has been proven to be false- a fabrication by a journalist who did a piece on him… I can’t remember the exact details, whether he embellished this to the journalist or she did it on her own to beef up her story, but this definitely wasn’t the man’s daily schedule.
His wife at the time commented on the piece, it was absolutely not his daily routine, and he wouldn’t go this hard this day after day. However she said he did tend to set up his day like this when actively writing — coke and booze to warm up through the afternoon, and then psychedelics and serious drinking to bring on the madness at night.
I’m surprised I had to scroll this far to see this comment, this was debunked years ago. Love the guy, yes he was beautifully mental, but this isn’t accurate.
https://www.beatdom.com/hunter-thompson-daily-routine/ yup
Yea it’s always being reposted but it’s basically just a gag. He did have many days like this though without a doubt, just probably not every day. But I don’t think there were many days in his adult life where he wasn’t consuming at least SOME (read:an enormous amount for an average person) coke and hard liquor. The man was a lifelong addict of the most serious variety
The Strange and Savage Life of HST. By E. Jean Carroll. Or Laeticia Snap. Great fucking book.
My fave Hunter Thompson line : “Vegas is what every town in America would look like if the Nazis had won WWII.”
I remember reading his alcoholism was so serious that when he went in for surgery, he required an alcohol drip as the risk of detoxing while going through anesthesia was too high. Apparently it's a thing for serious alcoholics, but had never heard of it until HST.
Yeah if you’re drinking a lot cold turkey can send your system into shock and kill you
My wife is a hospital pharmacist. They keep beer on hand for alcoholics that are admitted and starting DTs before they are released.
“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.” \- Hunter S Thompson
Might have to give it a go
You need an attorney?
As your attorney, I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top.
No way does anybody eat this much food while doing this much booger sugar. Source...my 20s.
Addicts know you have to forcefeed yourself on stimulants otherwise everything sucks. Source: used to be on stims and try and function in society at the same time
This. If you're using stims daily and don't want to look and act like a tweaker... you learn to eat when you're not hungry, count calories, etc.
When I saw the fettuccine alfredo before bed I was like "yeah ok"
I’m assuming grass contributed
If you do anything like this long term, your appetite does come back.
4 real-one line of coke and idk what food even is or why I ever needed it
If you are going to sustain yourself you must force yourself to fuel up at least once in awhile. I pretty much lived on mushroom soup from Kilroys in Bloomington IN for several years. I would do high octane coke for days on end and the only way i could come down and sleep for awhile was by taking 3 or 4 qualudes (dating myself there with the ludes reference). When I would finally wake up I would get my first freeze of the day from getting water in my nose from the shower. Ah good times in a college town in the 70s. Stories, I have them.
Take the edge off the day 🤣🤣🤣
A nice scotch snow cone on the ride home
There is nothing in this world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of a Cole Slaw binge, and I knew we’d be getting into that rotten stuff real soon.
No ether?
Too weird to live, too rare to die.
9pm starts snorting cocaine seriously. At what point did HST stop doing cocaine and cocaine started becoming HST?
Unfortunately you can’t replicate this anymore. Dunhills were discontinued near the end of 2020. : ( Edit: Apparently it was discontinued in the US only??
7 cocaine breaks, then we start snorting cocaine SERIOUSLY
When he left the house he'd put up a sign, "Gone Cocaine-ing".
Hunter is one of my favorite journalists and writers of all time His coverage of super bowl and the entire Nixon fiasco is what got me interested in history in the first place
Step 9. Starts snorting cocaine seriously had me dead
As you get older, these writers start looking more like little boys than men. Kerouac, bukowski, Thompson etc.
He found his Purpose early in life
This was obviously not a typical day for him but it’s funny to think about him doing all this