It’s been a stinking hot ass summer in NYC (as usual) and I live in a fifth-floor Alphabet City walkup. Even with a brand-spanking new air conditioner, it’s stuffy in here! So I escape the heat by schlepping, panting and slicked with sweat, into movie theaters to try to soak up the not-quite-free AC. This … Continue reading
“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” This quote by 18th-century English writer Samuel Johnson opens the Good Doctor Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as an epigraph. There, it foreshadows a number of essential elements that make up Hunter’s classic manic eulogy … Continue reading