<p dir="ltr">I like it!!!</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 20, 2024, 10:41 PM Jeff Hayas <<a href="mailto:jeff.hayas@gmail.com">jeff.hayas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.<br>
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All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.<br>
You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...<br>
For great justice.<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div>Folks --</div><div><br></div>While for most of us it's "too late for do-overs", this is nonetheless a fascinating advice-essay. I just sent a copy to my own son, who is 32 and in-between jobs.<br><div><br></div><div><div><div>This was written long before Thompson became a drug-crazed nut-job. In fact he had just been honorably discharged from the US Air Force. But apparently he already had a defiant attitude. From his Wikipedia Bio ...</div><div><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">In 1958, while he was an </span>airman first class<span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">, his commanding officer recommended him for an early </span>honorable discharge<span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">. "In summary, this </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">airman, although talented, will not be guided by policy," chief of information services </span>Colonel<span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)"> William S. Evans wrote to the Eglin personnel office. "Sometimes his rebel and superior attitude seems to rub off on other </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">airmen staff members."</span></font></div></div><div><div><font color="#202122" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">After leaving the Air Force, Thompson worked as sports editor for a </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">newspaper in </span>Jersey Shore<span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">, </span>Pennsylvania<span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">,</span><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)"> before relocating to </span>New York City<span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">. There he audited several courses at the </span>Columbia University School of General Studies<span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">.</span><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)"> During this time he worked briefly for </span><i>Time</i><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)"> as a </span>copy boy<span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)"> </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">for $51 a week. At work, he typed out parts of </span>F. Scott Fitzgerald<span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">'s </span><i style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">The Great Gatsby</i><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)"> and </span>Ernest Hemingway<span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">'s </span><i style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">A Farewell to Arms</i><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)"> in order to learn the authors' rhythms and writing styles.</span><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)"> In 1959, </span><i style="color:rgb(32,33,34)">Time</i><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34)"> fired him for </span></font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">insubordination</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)">.</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)"> Later that year, he worked as a reporter for </span><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The Middletown Daily Record</i><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)"> in </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Middletown</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)">, </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">New York</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)">. He was fired from this job after damaging an office </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">candy machine</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34)"> and arguing with the owner of a local restaurant who happened to be an advertiser with the paper.</span></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- Jeff.H</div><div><br></div><div>----/----<br></div><div><div><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(17,17,17)"><font size="4"><a href="https://fs.blog/hunter-s-thompson-to-hume-logan/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life</a></font></h1><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px;color:rgb(17,17,17);font-family:minion-pro,serif"><p style="box-sizing:border-box"><font size="4">In April of 1958, Hunter S. Thompson was 22 years old when he wrote this letter to his friend Hume Logan in response to a request for life advice.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box"><font size="4">Thompson’s letter, found in <em style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://amzn.to/49FwHuC" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Letters of Note</a></em>, offers some of the most thoughtful and profound advice I’ve ever encountered for those of us feeling a little lost. </font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box"><font size="4">...</font></p></div></div><div></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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