Hunter Gatherer

Anne Doyle

Hunter S. Thompson

If, as I believe it does, finishing a well written piece of literature or journalism leaves behind in the imagination cache of the reader, hanging like a thin plume of thought-provoking smoke from the capillaries of short term memory, latent half-engaged memories of characters, their conflicts or the proxied aftershock of dramatic events, imagine the multi-coloured smorgasbord of storytelling smog hanging around my brain having recently completed the following random samples of American life.





From the almost forgotten simplicity of a mid-century midwestern childhood, to the self serving middle class complexity of the contemporary American family, on to the entropic behavioural extremes of a group of hairy west coast men on motorcycles.... all human life is (t)here. A societal snapshot of America at any time in its history is a complex and fascinating artefact. An unplanned, pan-continental time-lapse sweep of real, semi-real and completely imagined accounts of American life is even more illuminating. All come recommended, though not at the same time. Here's a more considered review of "Hells Angels"

Other HST photos from his time on the greasy side ....





On a vaguely related note, this just made me laugh...