Thread by @DonovanFarley

Hunter S. Thompson's platform while running for sheriff of Aspen including legalizing all drugs, tearing up all of Aspen's roads and replacing them with sod, renaming the place "Fat City" in order to better repel "human jackals," the public shaming of dishonest drug dealers & 1/2

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the "savage harassment" by his deputies of those engaged in "land rape."

The mostly bald Thompson also completely shaved his head so he could call his crew cut Republican opponent a "longhair." And that's a peyote button the six-fingered fist on his campaign poster is holding.

He came damn close to winning too. Aspen was almost a very freaky place. (Excuse me, Fat City.)

There has obviously been a tremendous amount of ink spilled about Hunter S. Thompson, but those more interested in this era of his life into the Nixon years should give @TimDenevi’s book FREAK KINGDOM a gander. Very thorough and well presented.

While I'm waiting to interview someone, more facts. For the real deep cut heads, that medallion HST is wearing in the above pic is the one Oscar Zeta Acosta—aka Dr. Gonzo—gave him. Acosta disappeared in 1974 and there's been no sign of the lawyer, writer & freedom fighter since.

Much more than Thompson's sidekick, Acosta was an integral part of the Chicano movement of the late 1960s and early ’70s and was himself a fascinating fellow. (One imagines you'd have to be to keep HST's attention.)

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