![]() but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era-the kind of peak that never comes again. Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. ![]() Timely reading after the BLM summer of 2020. You can read it online in PDF form here, by the way. Strange Rumblings completely recontextualizes Thompson's relationship with Acosta, as well as the more lucid parts of Vegas where he describes the end of the 60s and the hippie era. Next to nothing about that subject matter is actually present directly in F&LILV, which people (especially those that have only seen the movie) almost universally think is this cartoony thing about a couple of crazy guys having an epic week-long bender in Vegas. ![]() They use the offer to cover the Mint 400 for Sports Illustrated as an excuse to get away from Acosta's entourage in LA. Oscar Acosta was an activist and was surrounded by a paranoid bodyguard that was increasingly suspicious of Thompson. But the real backstory to F&LILV is in a piece called "Strange Rumblings In Aztlan," which is a dark and intense article about the assassination of a Hispanic journalist by the LAPD. The Kentucky Derby piece is a fun one and is similar in tone to Vegas, and marks the beginning of Thompson's collaboration with Ralph Steadman.
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