The Cookie Monster fuzz mouths of a couple of Hells Angels stuffing mid-morning burgers in a lay-by on the A40 made my jaw drop today. Not because they were choosing to eat from a very dubious looking Portakabin and its even more dubious looking head chef. I was more interested in their gleaming, extravagantly handle-barred Chopper's and more specifically the unusual cargo they were pulling. In a glass...
The Sûreté du Québec has been rounding people up in its investigation into criminal activity in the construction industry , specifically in this case the Hells Angels ; the Quebec Liberals continue to maintain that a full inquiry into the collusion of the Mafia with the industry is not needed.
As promised, my review of Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out , the Maysles Brothers' "new" documentary on the Rolling Stones at the Garden in '69 (i.e. the outtakes from Gimme Shelter ), is now up over at Box Office . GYYYO the movie is also available as a bonus DVD on the new 40th anniversary edition of the similarly titled live album. Needless to say, if somebody wants to get it for me for Christmas,...
Economics grab all the headlines but beauty is just as important, and even has serious financial ramifications. Beauty does serve a function. Didn't the way that cars used to look--and no longer do--have a big effect on the failure of Detroit? Beauty is more than skin deep. Beauty is powerful. Utility is beautiful and beauty has utility. Let's call it "Beautility" for short. The Avanti Studebaker,...
Quebec provincial police arrested 10 people in a crackdown on criminal involvement in the construction industry Tuesday, saying the Hells Angels bullied their way into legitimate businesses and used them for money-laundering.
I feel grossly under-read. Last night I was looking through different lists of 100 books or 101 books everyone should have read. I made a list of everything I hadn't read and wanted to read or felt like I ought to read. I feel like a bumbling moron. How do I tie my shoes every day? (My shoes don't have laces. Cats eat shoelaces. And headphones. Tasty, tasty headphones). Here's my list. I think it's...
After a weekend outbreak of violence between two motorcycle gangs, Germany's detective association has called for the Hell's Angels and Bandidos groups to be banned.
Is it that time of year already? How the years fly by. Here's was me thinking it was still Tuesday and it's actually almost November. Bokbierfestival time. These are the details: 32e PINT Bokbierfestival Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam Friday 17:00-23:00, Saturday 12:00-23:00, Sunday 12:00-19:00 Entrance: €8 Beer price: €2 I'll be there on Saturday, as usual. Saturday afternoon, when it's nice...
From On Two Wheels - That's the sub-title of Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels. Originally published in 1966, I probably first read it in the late 60s when I was enamoured of such celluloid heavyweights as The Wild Angels (I desperately wanted to be like Peter Fonda if for no other reason than to bag Nancy Sinatra!) and thought listening to Blues Theme by Davie Allan and the Arrows at ear-drum-imploding...
Apparently, some ignorant, casually racist turd named Stu Byofsky is employed as a Philadelphia sportswriter of some sort. This is truly unfortunate, because this means he has some meager platform from which to dispense his bigoted, myopic spleen. To wit, this shitnugget : To put this in terms Los Angelenos can comprehend, it’s Bloods vs. the Crips. We’re red, the Bloods. The Dodgers are...
Pan Hunter S. Thompson zdecydowanie wraca do łask, choć dla jego wielbicieli po prostu zawsze był aktualny. Zaczynając swoją karierę od gnicia w podrzednych gazetach i bujania sie po Ameryce Poludniowej, gdzie napisał swoją pierwsza książkę, "The Rum Diary" (wydana znacznie później od swojego debiutu), dr dziennikarstwa gonzo...