May 7, 2012


And I thought, ‘Holy shit, if I can write like this and get away with it, why should I keep trying to write like the New York Times?’ It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.

Looking back at Hunter S. Thompson’s classic story about the Kentucky Derby - Grantland

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