Category Archives: Johnny Depp

If you don’t know who Hunter S. Thompson is; look him up, the man is a legend. Known for being the creator of gonzo journalism (a style where reporters entrench themselves in the subject to the point of them being a central character in their story), and for being one of the most awesomely insane people to ever walk the earth; Thompson’s book The Rum Diary is set to hit the big screen in a film starring Johnny Depp. Again, for those of you who don’t know, The Rum Diary isn’t the first time Depp has played the lead in a film adaptation of one of Thompson’s works; he played Thompson himself (well, a version of Thompson; a character named ‘Raoul Duke’) in the epic mind-trip Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.In preparation for the role, Depp spent a ton of time hanging out with Thompson, with the two becoming great friends. Thompson even shaved Depp’s head for the role because, you guessed it; like most great men, Hunter S. Thompson was bald. He wore a horseshoe of hair with pride, even wearing visors more often than most; as we all know, a visor is a hat that says, “I don’t want sun in my eyes, but I want the shine off my dome to blind you…sucker.”.  I’d like to take this opportunity to posthumously invite Hunter S. Thompson into the bald army…as in his ghost; this isn’t just a gesture, I bet his corpse could pistol whip the snot out of half of Europe, so we’d love to him. I’d also like to invite Depp…I know he has hair, but come on guys, he’s Johnny Depp.