A Houston Profile

[2112]

Found this opinion on Houston. Its in Rolling Stones Magazine. I’m not sure how to feel about it. But the phrase “so what’s the problem?” seems to come to mind.
:guns:

“Things haven't changed all that much where George W. Bush comes from. Houston is a cruel and crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.”
“Houston is also the unnatural home of two out of the last three presidents of the United States of America, for good or ill. The other one was a handsome, sex-crazed boy from next-door Arkansas, which has no laws against oral sex or any other deviant practice not specifically forbidden in the New Testament, including anal incest and public cunnilingus with farm animals.”

:eek:

Source:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6562575?rnd=1098818372056&has-player=false

[hamiltonpl]

That is outrageous. Did Houston kill the author's mama or something?

[freewaytincan]

They just want an excuse to attack Texas and the south because we're "anachronistic" and "backwards" to the amoral leaders of our popular "culture."

EDIT: I just read the article. Is this man serious? Does he really have a doctorate, because it looks like it was written by an angsty fifteen-year-old emo kid. It's just one lie after another, and based completely on whatever twisted form of reality that is in this man's head. I wonder if these extremists realize how bad they make their side look.

[texman]

They just want an excuse to attack Texas and the south because we're "anachronistic" and "backwards" to the amoral leaders of our popular "culture."

EDIT: I just read the article. Is this man serious? Does he really have a doctorate, because it looks like it was written by an angsty fifteen-year-old emo kid. It's just one lie after another, and based completely on whatever twisted form of reality that is in this man's head. I wonder if these extremists realize how bad they make their side look.

strong words from a strong man.

[psukhu]

Rolling Stone Magazine
1290 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10104 - 0298


Many New Yorkers are ignorant about what’s going on in Texas.

[Lakewooder]

Hunter S. Thompson lives in Aspen, he ought to know about "super-rich pansexual cowboys".

[Foucault]

They just want an excuse to attack Texas and the south because we're "anachronistic" and "backwards" to the amoral leaders of our popular "culture."
I know! It's such a generalization. There are lots of people down here that live in the real world.

[freewaytincan]

...the real world.

Which he is not a resident of.

[2112]

I tell you what, all rivalry aside, we are all Texans, and I'm sure I can speak for many Houstonians on thanking the Dallas forumers for speaking out against this crazy talk. Thanks.

Nevertheless, whats' wrong with brazen women and sex anyways?

Laters.

[hamiltonpl]

What is a pansexual cowboy? I think I saw one walking down Oak Lawn this morning, but I'm not sure.

[tamtagon]

What is a pansexual cowboy? I think I saw one walking down Oak Lawn this morning, but I'm not sure.

Well, maybe pansexual, but only if he can get just as "happy" at the Roundup as he can get at Cowboys.

[HarryMoto]

I haven't read the Hunter S. Thompson piece in question but I don't think he represents anything but his own twisted, and sometimes brilliant, mind. He's one of the architects of gonzo journalism and, along with the likes of Tom Wolfe, has an idiosyncratic view of American culture. You don't have to like him but he's usually an outrageously entertaining read.

His "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is considered a classic and was turned into a movie with Johnny Depp and directed by Terry Gilliam. Rolling Stone was where "Fear and Loathing" was first published in the early 70s and they've kept a relationship with him since. That's why they published his latest missive. I don't think you should take anything Thompson writes too seriously or as representative of what the suits at Rolling Stone necessarily think of Texas anymore than I dismiss Woody Allen or Joan Didion because they hate on my hometown of LA. I can disagree with them on that and still appreciate their brilliance.

[Fobulous]

Stupid article written by an ignorant person..

one thing i do have to agree is that the "no zoning" law does suck.

[sterling]

Rolling Stone wouldn't publish this article UNLESS there was some shocking "in your face" aspect to it. Writers write for the editorial slant of the publications they pitch to. The same writer would certainly take a different approach if this was the Christian Science Monitor. Consider the source... Some things you just take in stride. As Liberace responded to HIS detractors, "I cry all the way to the bank".

[HarryMoto]

Hunter S. Thompson wouldn't write for Christian Science Monitor any more than Quentin Tarantino would make movies for TBN or PAX or Rush Limbaugh would start writing for Mother Jones. He's an old leftie curmudgeon and that's what he will always be.

Though to assume that everyone ever published in Rolling Stone is leftie paints a very wide brush. For many of the same years that RS published Hunter Thompson, they also published the rantings of right-wing funnyman (and the guy from whom Dennis Miller seems to have taken much of his political persona), PJ O' Rourke.

I'm surprised at the amount of outrage this has sparked, considering Thompson's history. (We are talking about the same story, right?) The minute you see his byline, and the subject matter, you know what road he's going to take. And you either take it or not, knowing it's not going to be laurels of love to Republicans or even most Democrats for that matter. 'Cause once you get on the Hunter highway, there's only one exit.

[drumguy8800]

“Houston is also the unnatural home of two out of the last three presidents of the United States of America, for good or ill. The other one was a handsome, sex-crazed boy from next-door Arkansas, which has no laws against oral sex or any other deviant practice not specifically forbidden in the New Testament, including anal incest and public cunnilingus with farm animals.”

I had never noticed this. Or maybe I had. Well. How very odd.

[Columbus Civil]

I don't think you should take anything Thompson writes too seriously or as representative of what the suits at Rolling Stone necessarily think of Texas anymore than I dismiss Woody Allen or Joan Didion because they hate on my hometown of LA.


The only cultural advantage to living in LA is being able to turn right on red ;)

[HarryMoto]

Great line, but it hasn't been true since, well, "Manhattan" and "Annie Hall" came out. You can make a right turn on red just about everywhere but Manhattan.

[The Great Hizzy!]

The only cultural advantage to living in LA is being able to turn right on red

You can't turn right on red in Dallas? Then I've been breaking many a law up there over the last few years...

[HarryMoto]

Generations ago, Los Angeles was one of the few cities where making a right on red was allowed. (I think it was actually all of California.) In subsequent years, it spread across most of the country. Not sure when it became OK in Dallas. Anyway, that's how Woody Allen got his (now dated) bit of comedic gold.

[Fobulous]

My friend got a ticket last year in Plano for not stopping completely at the Red Light, accoring to Texas law..one has observe Red light as a Stop sign, complete stop before continuing.

[I-275westcoastfl]

Found this opinion on Houston. Its in Rolling Stones Magazine. I’m not sure how to feel about it. But the phrase “so what’s the problem?” seems to come to mind.
:guns:

“Things haven't changed all that much where George W. Bush comes from. Houston is a cruel and crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.”
“Houston is also the unnatural home of two out of the last three presidents of the United States of America, for good or ill. The other one was a handsome, sex-crazed boy from next-door Arkansas, which has no laws against oral sex or any other deviant practice not specifically forbidden in the New Testament, including anal incest and public cunnilingus with farm animals.”

:eek:

Source:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6562575?rnd=1098818372056&has-player=false (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6562575?rnd=1098818372056&has-player=false)

Man this person is a moron stop dissing the south its not just people who are rednecks and cowboys normal people live here too infact is mostly normal people just living their life and its people like u who give the south that reputation. And that article is obiously an opinion.

[texman]

Man this person is a moron stop dissing the south its not just people who are rednecks and cowboys normal people live here too infact is mostly normal people just living their life and its people like u who give the south that reputation

It would be nice if you qouted what reference to what you were talking about.

[I-275westcoastfl]

Oh sorry about that forgot to add it in(i added it in now)

[HarryMoto]

Found this opinion on Houston. Its in Rolling Stones Magazine. I’m not sure how to feel about it. But the phrase “so what’s the problem?” seems to come to mind.
:guns:

“Things haven't changed all that much where George W. Bush comes from. Houston is a cruel and crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.”
“Houston is also the unnatural home of two out of the last three presidents of the United States of America, for good or ill. The other one was a handsome, sex-crazed boy from next-door Arkansas, which has no laws against oral sex or any other deviant practice not specifically forbidden in the New Testament, including anal incest and public cunnilingus with farm animals.”

:eek:

Source:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6562575?rnd=1098818372056&has-player=false

WRITER COMMITS SUICIDE
Hunter S. Thompson was author of 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'

Associated Press

ASPEN, Colo. -- Hunter S. Thomspon, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, fatally shot himself Sunday at his home, his son said. He was 67.

"Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family," Juan Thompson said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News.

Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis, a personal friend of Mr. Thomspon, confirmed the death to the News. Sheriff's officials did not return calls to the Associated Press late Sunday.

Juan Thompson found his father's body. Mr. Thompson's wife, Anita, was not home at the time.

Besides the 1972 drug-hazed classic about Mr. Thompson's time in Las Vegas, he is credited with pioneering New Journalism in which the writer made himself an essential component in the story.

An acute observer of the decadence and depravity of American life, Mr. Thompson wrote such books as Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail in 1972 and the collections Generation of Swine and Songs of the Doomed. His first ever novel, The Rum Diary, written in 1959, was first published in 1988.

Other books inclue Hell's Angel's and The Proud Highway. His most recent effort was Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness.

[texman]

^Thats crazy.

[freewaytincan]

^Thats crazy.

It's sad, that's what it is.

[aceplace]

It's sad, that's what it is.I guess God doesn't like you when you mess with Texas.

[texman]

I guess God doesn't like you when you mess with Texas.
Or just Houston.

[saxman66]

GW Bush is not from Houston. Didn't he grow up in Midland? And wasn't GHW Bush, the father, born in CT or MA. He only lives in Houston now. Houston is sex crazed? Hmm, wonder why it has NASA, and a world class medical facilities. I heard somewhere, that Houston, behind NYC, has the most cultural events going on each day. That is concerts, world class museums, and the like. If I want to hear a symphony or musical event, its probably going on. (The Houston Symphony has been the top four symphony orchestras in the country)

So this guy is pretty much messing with a world class city. Sure it has its problems, but who doesn't?

[2112]

I sorta liked the article, actually. What's wrong with brazen women? That's an attribute. Sex is good, also.

[Phillip]

I have no regrets about that guy dying. We need not feel sorry for him, that anti-Texas s***. Besides, many of the people who live in the Texas cities now aren't even originally from Texas. Many of them are from the northern states, in fact.