“It’s about how I joined the polo crowd. By accident.” That was Hunter S. Thompson’s way of describing “Polo is my life.” The title comes from a friend of Hunter’s who was known not only known for being “a polo person” but also for having a violent husband and having many domestic-violence calls come from [...]

This “lecture” is more of a question and answer session. Weird kids askin’ everything from bizarre-to-stupid-to-generic questions which Thompson tries to answer. It gives a good perspective on the climate of the late 70′s. (Something that appeared all-throughout Thompson’s work.) It runs a little over 40 minutes.

The freeloader: hated by parents, friends, and roommates. Always around. Say you run into that freeloader you know and you ask them how they’ve been: “I dunno, I’m like homeless, man. My parents threw me out … so I’m like  couchsurfing, ya know?” And that’s how it goes. Murky language: “I’m like …  I dunno, [...]

This is the famous Documentary on Hunter S. Thompson from 1978. You know … the one where he attributes his good health to grass in his whiskey. It’s part of the “Omnibus” TV series. Also, a rare glimpse of the British weirdo, Ralph Steadman and, the less rare, Bill Murray (who portrayed Hunter S. Thompson [...]