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“Gonzo, The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson” is a new documentary by Alex Gibney about Hunter S. Thompson that premiered at Sundance and opens in theaters on July 4th. Here’s the trailer.
From Oscar-wining director Alex Gibney and producer Graydon Carter comes a probing look into the uncanny life of national treasure and gonzo journalism inventor Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. A fast moving, wildly entertaining documentary with an iconic soundtrack, the film addresses the major touchstones in Thompson’s life-his intense and ill fated relationship with the Hell’s Angels, his near-successful bid for the office of sheriff in Aspen in 1970, the notorious story behind the landmark Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, his deep involvement in Senator George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign, and much more. Narrated by Johnny Depp.
Thanks to Laughing Squid for the above and reminding me. I hope it’s a fitting tribute, not another embarrassment like a few other attempts to portray Gonzo on the screen. Thompson’s life can only receive cinematic justice in a documentary. Like Crum and Watts, Leary, too.
I don’t believe in miracles, but I can’t deny that sometimes weird things happen without cause or explanation.
My truck’s turn signals haven’t worked for over a year. I suspected the switcher unit had burned out, it’s happened in other vehicles I’ve owned. I bought a replacement, but since I have to disassemble half of the under dash cover to get to it, I’ve been putting it off. I could still make the turn signals work manually, flicking the turn signal arm.
Tonight on the way home I noticed that my turn signals are once again working.
Why? Who knows. What was wrong before? Who knows. Am I pleased? you bet.
A cosmetics line that extolled the virtues of “Lookin’ Good for Jesus” has been pulled from stores in Singapore after a number of complaints from shoppers, according to media reports Tuesday.
Promising to “Redeem your reputation and more,” the product line included a “virtuous vanilla”-flavored lip balm and a “Get Tight with Christ” hand and body cream, The Straits Times said.
Wing Tai Retail, which manages the British retailer Topshop, removed the line late last month after receiving complaints.
“These products trivialize Jesus Christ and Christianity,” it quoted Nick Chui, 27, one of the complainants, as saying. “There are also sexual innuendoes in the messages and the way Jesus is portrayed in these products.”
One product has packaging with the image of Jesus wearing a bright white robe as he looks toward the heavens, while a heavily made-up blonde woman with an arm draped across his shoulder gazes dreamily at his face.
“Why would anyone use religious figures to promote vanity products? It’s very disrespectful and distasteful,” the report quoted 24-year-old accountant Grace Ong as saying. (Source)
What accounts for the recent increase in incidents of religious whining about respect? Muslims get offended by cartoons while Christians take offense at a line of tacky cosmetics.
Read the Koran or Bible and highlight all the humorous passages, all the scriptures that indicate the gods or their followers have a sense of humor or even a healthy self-image. You’ll be reading a lot and highlighting nothing. Believers may have the light of fanaticism in their eyes but you’ll be hard pressed to find one with a twinkle of wit. Considering how comical religious beliefs are, it’s too bad the religious lack the ability to appreciate that.
Why do we only require disproof of an unproven hypothesis when it comes to religion?
If I claimed I had built a machine that generated energy out of thin air and ran forever, is anyone obliged to spend time disproving that claim? Wouldn’t any rational, sane person simply say, “Let me know when you have proof of that” and dismiss such nonsense out-of-hand? Is there even a need to be agnostic about such a claim? Of course not. Not even the PC crowd would insist we respect this claim as possible. It’s nonsensical, and anyone who paid attention in school after the third grade would know that.
That’s why we debate religion. It’s been given a free pass for too long. It’s time those of us who remain unconvinced by theistic claims that defy reason and nature explain and defend our reasons for not buying this silliness.
Gods, magic, superstition, all are relics of our ignorant past. We come not to praise religion, but to bury it.
The fear of the number 666 is known as hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia.
I knew you’d want to know that.
Freedom by Daniel Suarez
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