James Lileks runs roughshod over Hunter S. Thompson, a man for whom the freshness dating on his writing expired about twenty years ago.
Thompson and William S. Burroughs are the prime examples that sooner or later, decades of pharmaceutical excess catch up with a writer–and the results are not pretty.
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