Hunter S. Thompson premiered his "GONZO" journalism style with this piece on the Kentucky Derby for Scanlan's Monthly, vol. 1, no.4, June 1970...
Friday, May 3, 2013
CULTURE: Hunter S. Thompson - "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent & Depraved"
Hunter S. Thompson premiered his "GONZO" journalism style with this piece on the Kentucky Derby for Scanlan's Monthly, vol. 1, no.4, June 1970...
Friday, April 5, 2013
GEAR : New West Knife Works - Fusionwood 2.0 Chef's Knife
Monday, January 7, 2013
INTERVIEW : Susan Carter Hall - Painter
I met Susan a lifetime ago at a party in the Hollywood Hills. She was the first peer I'd met in my "adult" life that when asked what they do, replied "I am a painter." There was no wavering, no feeble attempts at justification, no dancing around it. It was a declaration that stuck in my head and inspired me. She knew what she was and was brave enough to announce it to the world long before I could.
Fifteen years later she walked into church. She didn't remember me, but I knew her in an instant. We've since become friends, and she continues to inspire me. She was kind enough to share a glimpse of her Sporting Life with us...
Sunday, December 2, 2012
EXPEDITION: "In Search of the Mai Tai" | Part-1
Cocktails are a vacation in a glass, able to transport you across the globe in the moment it takes your mind to register the delicious flavors floating across your tongue. A good cocktail is like a five star resort on a powder-white sandy beach, overflowing with beautiful women in string bikinis that think you’re handsome and charming. A bad cocktail is akin to a roadside motel with a chain-link fenced pool beside the highway with a dead cat floating in it....
Friday, October 19, 2012
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Friday, April 20, 2012
EXPEDITION: Summer 2012-In Search of the Mai Tai!
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Every summer I pick a new cocktail to master. If I were to map my cocktail mastery,
I would be following the equator around the globe, moving East to West, having
started in Cuba with the Mojito. This
summer I've decided to conquer the “Jungle Juice” of all cocktails…the Mai Tai! It is yet another journey into the "Heart of
Darkness", in search of truth. There
is no doubt that it will be a perilous expedition, but I am confident I will
emerge enlightened from the dank muddled jungle that is the American bar.
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