Hunter S Thompson, High Times and How to Survive the Hangover From Hell

I could barely move from my prone position on the bed. My head was pounding and my stomach was awash with a queasiness that meant one thing: I was in for a hangover from hell.

The room was dark, the TV was on low and from the other bed there was the glow of a lit cigarette. As my eyes adjusted to the dark, I saw a bare-chested guy in jeans, lying on his back, blowing smoke at the ceiling. He turned to look at me. I had a vague memory of being carried up some stairs, over his shoulders.

Memories started to come back. Peacocks squawking in cages, Johnny Cash tunes on the stereo. Me taking a thick cigarette from a strong-jawed man with dark glasses, his face only inches from mine, and, later, crawling over the whitest carpet I had ever seen. A couple guys who Fear and Loathing on t... Thompson, Hunter S. Best Price: $10.85 Buy New $13.10 (as of 01:30 UTC - Details) seemed nice enough earlier in the evening, but who wanted me gone later on. They picked me up and carried me outside, where they pushed me into the cab of a truck – which, that’s right, belonged to the guy in the bed.

Shit. Now I knew. I had ruined my friend Ben’s big score – a High Times cover story on Hunter S Thompson.

We had been thrown out of Hunter’s own house because I – never exactly a party girl – had gotten totally lit from doing hits with Hunter. And now I was in the middle of a scene that could have been written by the gonzo journalist himself.

That was more than a decade ago, months before the author killed himself.

Anyone who spent even a little bit of time with Hunter S Thompson was lucky, but especially so if they were a writer or editor. It felt like he had bestowed some kind of glow, some sort of spark that reminded you it was life’s adventures – and especially its fuck-ups and mistakes – that might teach you the most and that would probably take your readers on the most amazing of journeys.

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