Blog Minx

Gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson would have made a great addition to the Blogosphere.

Imagine the potential posts as he made his drug-addled way through the desert to Vegas in search of the American Dream, and along the presidential campaign trail a few years later in search of an honest politician.

True, the internet hadn’t been invented back in the 60s/70s so that may count as a reasonable excuse for not blogging. However, the internet was well and truly in use by 2001 when he was ranting about 9/11 and the deep inadequacies of Mr Bush. Yet he was still banging away on a typewriter, up till the day he shot himself in the head in 2005.

And as any seasoned bloggers know, blogging by typewriter is a skill that has yet to be mastered, even if HST was using some new-fangled-for-the-sixties heap of technology with a dial that allowed you to fax a piece of paper anywhere in the country in just six minutes. It’s just not the same.

Other questions to consider today:

1) Is no hair a prerequisite to becoming a master blogger (looking at you, Problogger and Shoemoney)? If so, even more reason for HST to pick up a mouse. Those giant shades, boat hat and cigarette clamped permanently between his teeth were just bonus accessories.
2) Would intaking copious amounts of alcohol and drugs add to, or detract from your overall blogging style? Or is this something you’ve already experimented with to increase RSS subscribers? What conclusions did you draw?
3) Is your blog written with fear and loathing? Or fear and coding?

Regardless of your answers to the above, wouldn’t it have been great to encounter HST at a bloggers’ convention. As long as he left his loaded guns at home.

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