Six-man Starting Rotation in Twins Future
With the recent signing of Mike Pelfrey to a two-year, $11 million deal, I can’t imagine the Twins going with
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Go Gonzo Journal
Fake news with a spin of Truth
Author: Anthony Varriano
Defining Gonzo Rhetoric through Literary Theory
Hunter S. Thompson’s Gonzo journalism is obviously autobiographical, but what art isn’t? You might say, “Journalism isn’t an art and
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Defining Gonzo Rhetoric through Literary History
Introduction Gonzo rhetoric, or roughly defined through literary history as the blending of nonfiction with fiction, is the bastard child
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Hell’s Angels an Objective Condemnation of the Press
Hunter S. Thompson’s Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (1966) is, by far, the most objective journalism Thompson was ever responsible
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Why AJ Pierzynski is a Good Target for the Twins
Despite being a jerk, as Aaron Gleeman called Pierzynski in his latest podcast, AJ is a good target for the
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In Cold Blood a Not-So-Cold-Blooded Account of Murderers
The nonfiction novel came into its own in 1965, when both Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson undertook the task
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Naked Lunch the Most Difficult Thing I’ve Ever Read
I read the abridged version of Moby Dick in fifth grade. I read the unabridged version in sixth grade. I read
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Big Sur Proustian Words on Poe-ish Amounts of Liquor
I can see why Hunter S. Thompson referred to Kerouac’s Big Sur as a “shitty, shitty book,” but I think the second
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Dealing With Dirty Pigs Part I
It was December 2007, which meant I was headed home to Glendive, Montana for “vacation.” It was really more of
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Comedic Errors of The Tempest
If embracing our own errors is so difficult, you can only imagine how difficult it is for us to embrace
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Comedic Errors of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
I have mentioned the “mechanicals” of A Midsummer Night’s Dream throughout these blogs, and there’s good reason. Their performance of
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