{"id":25267,"date":"2014-04-22T12:13:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T16:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25267"},"modified":"2018-09-08T20:55:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T00:55:15","slug":"qotd-fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/04\/22\/qotd-fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The sporting editors had also given me $300 in cash, most of which was already spent on extremely dangerous drugs. The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers &#8230; and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.<\/p>\n<p>All this had been rounded up the night before, in a frenzy of high-speed driving all over Los Angeles County \u2013 from Topanga to Watts, we picked up everything we could get our hands on. Not that we <em>needed<\/em> all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we&#8217;d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station. We had sampled almost everything else, and now \u2013 yes, it was time for a long snort of ether. And then do the next 100 miles in a horrible, slobbering sort of spastic stupor. The only way to keep alert on ether is to do up a lot of amyls \u2013 not all at once, but steadily, just enough to maintain the focus at 90 miles an hour through Barstow.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter S. Thompson, <a href=\"http:\/\/m.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas-19711111?print=true\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas&#8221;, <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>, 1971-11-11<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sporting editors had also given me $300 in cash, most of which was already spent on extremely dangerous drugs. The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,57,28],"tags":[111,119,1230,760,202],"class_list":["post-25267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humour","category-media","tag-cars","tag-drugs","tag-huntersthompson","tag-lasvegas","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6zx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25268,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25267\/revisions\/25268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}