Remembering Hunter

Many fine things have been written about Hunter S. Thompson since he shot himself in the head last Sunday. Truly interesting and telling is a piece by Lucian K. Truscott IV on the op/ed page of today's Times. Something always hits home when we read about the greats during their lean days.

It's hard today to think of a figure like Hunter Thompson as a struggling writer, but most of his letters in my files were about money and the writing business and (again) money - what kind of stories the magazines were looking for, what they were paying, who had the fattest expense account. Hunter was always short of money. We all were.

Posted by Jim at 11:13 AM

Youthful Images From Central Europe

Funny enough, about the same time old pal Matt Welch received a wonderful picture of himself in his old Slovak days, I came across this image of my visit to Hungary's famous Statue Park back in early 1996.