This is why the infield at the Derby is not for people who want to see the actual race:
"Thousands of raving, stumbling drunks, getting angrier and angrier as they lose more and more money. By midafternoon they'll be guzzling mint juleps with both hands and vomiting on each other between races. The whole place will be jammed with bodies, shoulder to shoulder. It's hard to move around."
Fantastic stuff. And the political descriptions from HST still work pretty well, 50+ years later. I've been to Derby / Breeders Cup at Churchill a few times with my dad. Some great stories.
The Kentucky Derby is on my reverse bucket list. Reverse bucket list means "an event or experience that you participated in that sucked so bad you'll never do it again". We never saw a horse while we were there. Didn't know who won the race, having never seen a horse ... or a scoreboard. We did see tens of thousands of obnoxious drunk people, though. And my tolerance for obnoxious drunk people as an avid sports fan and rock concert attendee is fairly high ...
“It is truly a shame we continue to govern from crisis to crisis,” added Sen. Joe Manchin...
Well said.
Why do I think Biden ordered troops to the border - knowing it is a futile gesture - in order to force elected Representatives and Senators of both parties to have meaningful bipartisan conversations?
Who knows? The debt ceiling crisis is a hulluva lot more pressing than comprehensive immigration reform which has been a low-grade ticking bomb for decades.
It’s good to know that Jamie is a track degenerate. Not many left. As he late Fred Capasala used to say “ the horses are at the gate, the fans are at the pole; it can mean only one thing, ITS POST TIME”.
Texas billionaire Harlan Crow paid private school tuition for a grand-nephew of Thomas, who had been taken in by the Justice and his wife. The cost was about $6,200 per month.
I suggest the Georgia Democrats should promote the
Trammil Crow Voucher Program since Mr. Crow feels so strongly about those with less opportunities
Jamie, I had never read Hunter S. Thomson’s Derby essay before. Thank you for sharing it. I’ll admit to relating a bit too closely to some of the descriptions having attended 5 years of the last decade. Happy Derby Day tomorrow!
This is why the infield at the Derby is not for people who want to see the actual race:
"Thousands of raving, stumbling drunks, getting angrier and angrier as they lose more and more money. By midafternoon they'll be guzzling mint juleps with both hands and vomiting on each other between races. The whole place will be jammed with bodies, shoulder to shoulder. It's hard to move around."
Fantastic stuff. And the political descriptions from HST still work pretty well, 50+ years later. I've been to Derby / Breeders Cup at Churchill a few times with my dad. Some great stories.
Great! It's not that far from reality...
The Kentucky Derby is on my reverse bucket list. Reverse bucket list means "an event or experience that you participated in that sucked so bad you'll never do it again". We never saw a horse while we were there. Didn't know who won the race, having never seen a horse ... or a scoreboard. We did see tens of thousands of obnoxious drunk people, though. And my tolerance for obnoxious drunk people as an avid sports fan and rock concert attendee is fairly high ...
Thank you immeasurably for the Hunter Thompson essay...made my day
Real immigration reform is need, for sure. But you patch a tire rather than drive with a flat to get a new one.
NPR aired this Hunter S. Thompson - Derby Day tribute ten years ago. I recalled linking it at Facebook making it easy to find.
https://www.npr.org/2013/05/04/180907071/a-decadent-and-depraved-derby-with-hunter-s-thompson?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR1M2ez2mChnf-NYSJ6hKeSY5WHUH1HaBGbDt-M0iOvJQwX9en7FinsJqcY
“It is truly a shame we continue to govern from crisis to crisis,” added Sen. Joe Manchin...
Well said.
Why do I think Biden ordered troops to the border - knowing it is a futile gesture - in order to force elected Representatives and Senators of both parties to have meaningful bipartisan conversations?
Who knows? The debt ceiling crisis is a hulluva lot more pressing than comprehensive immigration reform which has been a low-grade ticking bomb for decades.
Just thinking out loud.
It’s good to know that Jamie is a track degenerate. Not many left. As he late Fred Capasala used to say “ the horses are at the gate, the fans are at the pole; it can mean only one thing, ITS POST TIME”.
Texas billionaire Harlan Crow paid private school tuition for a grand-nephew of Thomas, who had been taken in by the Justice and his wife. The cost was about $6,200 per month.
I suggest the Georgia Democrats should promote the
Trammil Crow Voucher Program since Mr. Crow feels so strongly about those with less opportunities
Jamie, I had never read Hunter S. Thomson’s Derby essay before. Thank you for sharing it. I’ll admit to relating a bit too closely to some of the descriptions having attended 5 years of the last decade. Happy Derby Day tomorrow!