As your attorney, I advise you to take the mescaline.

[CanuckAmok]

BATS!! BATS!!

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. It's my head....

It's my head....

[ET Awful]

2. There is nothing in the world more helpless, irresponsible

and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge

[Nevernose]

3. I've seen the bats; they really exist

And I've been trapped on the revoloving bar at Circus Circus. For years I was fairly certain this book wasn't Hunter Thompson's biography, but mine.

[underpants]

11. Like this?

[underpants]

4. ...oh and ice bring plenty of ice and some oranges I need those too

I actually went to the "bar" at CircusCircus in Vegas. It is now surrounded by crappy carnival games (CircusCircus is a dump and a freak show), is only open on weekends, and doesn't serve alcohol anymore. A great disappointment.

[BigMcLargehuge]

5. We can't stop here! This is bat country!!!

I think my favorite line from the film is :

And that, I think, was the handle - -that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - -on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - -the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

How awesome is that a description of the end of 60's idealism?

[southpaw]

9. That paragraph is the very heart and soul of the book.

Absolutely beautiful!!!

[LynneSin]

6. Bats? Evita will kill them

she's my resident batkiller!!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

7. You'll need a tape recorder for special music

[southpaw]

8. We're your friends...

We're not like the others!

Want some ether?

[MrBenchley]

10. God's mercy on you swine

[BigMcLargehuge]

12. We'd been running an average $38 dollar room service bill for 48

consecutive hours. Panic. It crept up my spine like first rising vibes of an acid frenzy. There I was. Alone in Las Vegas, completely twisted on drugs, no cash, no story for the magazine, and on top of everything else, a gigantic god damned hotel bill to deal with. How would Horatio Alger handle this situation?

[jus_the_facts]

13. "It's the f*kin' BATS MAN....ahh well.....the poor bastard.....

......will find out soon enough!!" :D :smoke:

[underpants]

14. "Raymond"'s dad Peter Boyle played Carl Lazlo, Esq. in the movie

"Where in the Buffalo" 1980 with Bill Murray as Dr.Thompson. Johnny Depp's movie was better and not a compilation of stories.
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