The Art of Gonzo Journaling: Hunter S. Thompson’s Blank Yellow Legal Pads?

A question from Thomas K asking if I have a blank yellow legal pad like American journalist, writer and founder of Gonzo News Campaign Hunt Thompson has been recently received

In short, no. Exaclair only imports Rhodia products to the United States with yellow paper - 8 x 12 "rule + 19th row rule + deposit There are other yellow rhodia options you can choose but I go to the French catalog What I really found is 19 four-hole punch version and 5 × 5 5 × 5 graphic version "No" 16

Returning to the original question, I dug down to find a reference to the blank yellow legal pad of Hunter Thompson, and it looks very empty.

In a 1993 article by Los Angeles Times wrote by John Shulian, I discovered as follows. "The last unforgettable thing Hunt Thompson read was written in my hand with a legitimate pad. A few pages, the first on the top, he printed non-publications in red ink. And that was a warning that the magazine editor had to show me the acquiescence of Thompson's curse. "

In Gadfly's article, written by Peter O. Whitmer in 1998, "Scribe was sent to Thompson's room. In vain, he gave them a handwritten memo, after an hour the scribe returned Though I did not believe it, Thompson did not believe it, but put his whole note on film experts and then returned to Aspen as he was tired of malicious attempts to investigative journalism . "

In an interview with the 2000 Paris review, Douglas Brinkley and Terry McDonnell asked: You are famous for traveling luggage overweight. Do you have a book? (About the fact that Thomson visited Saigon in 1974 and reported war)

"I had several books with me.Graham Green's The Quiet American is certain, Phil Nately's first victim.Hemingway is in our era.I am aware of these epoch- I have all kinds of documents, people gave new meanings to Vietnam's experience I have all kinds of electronics - too many transceivers I will bring a tape recorder and a laptop Sweat I can not write with a felt pen, I carry a notebook as large as a sketchbook.All of these things are put in a photographer's backpack, and automatically. We also carry 45. "

It did not mention Thompson 's writing paper selection, but it made me laugh. From Wiki: "No matter where I go, he was equipped with an early fax machine, because he was confused, he could not read it, so I sent an unreadable article to the San Francisco magazine (Rolling Stones).

Searching Google Images by Hunter Thompson + Handwriting gives a lot of results, but not much yellow paper. As I am unfamiliar with Thompson's writings, life, movies, I can ignore fairly obvious mention of his favorite writing supplies at any time.

Hunter S. Thompson created his own news style he called "Gonzo". Gonzo is a style of journalism, journalists move themselves into action and make them the core of the story. Thompson's most famous work is "Angel of Hell: a strange and horrible legend", "Fear and disgust in Las Vegas: a savage trip of the American Dream Heart", and "Lamb Diary". Pursue greater goals than your own goals. Please set it to be big enough to contain suspicion. Set the timeline to concentrate on completing this task, not elsewhere. The more time and effort you spend to achieve your goals, the more investment you make, which makes it difficult to quit.

In Hunter S. Thompson's "Gonzo" news in Las Vegas, the original fear and disgust, narcotics, devastated land, and desert lace originally stands outstanding. The readers return to Rachel Kushner's "The Flamethrowers" "Nevada Desert Racing" - likewise ridiculously incredible art, adventure and violence, and political chaos in the 1970s. Jay McNaughney's brightlight Big City, set in New York in the 1980s, depicts the death of his wife and mother, and depicts a 24-year-old writer who loses his dream career in the process I will. In Jacqueline Woodson's novel "The Moon of the Moon", Laurel Danao deals with a similar loss of mothers and grandmothers dying in Hurricane Katrina and began to deal with crystals. Destroy the appearance of her pain during the process, her perfect life (cheerleader, captain girlfriend of football team)