Kiwi Filmmaker Visits Hunter S. Thompson Territory
Famed gonzo journalist was born on this day in 1937.
Graeme Tuckett’s first pass at a Hunter S. Thompson-worthy lede was this:
I was somewhere near Aspen when the coffee took hold.
However, per a piece this weekend in New Zealand newspaper the Sunday Star, Tuckett quickly checked himself, for a number of reasons, not the least of which being the fact that, as he puts it, ‘anyone who’s ever drunk American coffee knows it doesn’t so much ‘take hold’ as limp down your gullet for a brief nap before converting itself far too easily into the warm urine it so nearly resembled on the way in.’
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