FIRST FRUITS OF GONZO BY ERIC C. SHOAF IT CAN BE ARGUED THAT HIS FIRST BOOK HELL’S ANGELS, PUBLISHED IN 1967, BROUGHT THOMPSON THE CRITICAL ACCLAIM AND NOTICE THAT ALLOWED HIS WORK AS A JOURNALIST TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY BY PUNDITS AND ACADEMICS Bibliographical information on Hunter Thompson comes primarily from three sources: Kihm Winship’s […]
Issue: May 2006
Published May 2006
Fishing in Woody Creek...Lawyers Guns and Money...Hal Haddon Interviews Ed Bradley...Why A Bill Of Rights Defense Resolution? Andy Hall in the Kitchen...Dr. Hunter S. Thompson on Speedism...
Published At Owl Farm
(when you least expect it)
SPEEDISM RITUAL
RULES FOR DRIVING FAST BY HUNTER S. THOMPSON In the interest of celebrating the diversity of out beatnik-cowboy Shangri-La, The Woody Creeker would also like to include a different type of ritual that can be practiced with our without a full moon. In the words of our beloved Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: Speedism is the […]
LAWYERS, GUNS, & MONEY
HOW TO STAY OUT OF JAIL BY JOHN VAN NESS Some say it was strictly a matter of self-defense, but Hunter was keenly curious as to how the criminal justice system really worked. As a career journalist who had been on the inside of the Vietnam War, national and local politics, as well as the […]
LETTERS
Hello Woody Creekers, Thought I’d just write in to say that I really like the magazine over here in England. You have connected abroad. I particularly enjoyed the piece by G. Guenin — admirable community spirit, D.A. Shaw — evocative, to someone who has not been there; and the Peacock piece with the great cover […]
ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL
BY DWIGHT SHELLMAN Dwight Shellman has been a Woody Creek attorney for more than 40 years. During that time he was a county commissioner and a member of the county planning & zoning commission and the RFTA board. He is past chair of the US National Ramsar Committee and president of the Caddo Lake Institute, […]
