“Can you pull back the sides of his mouth more toward his ears to show all his teeth?” The undertaker fidgeted. He looked at Gary Capehart stretched out on the embalming table. “People don’t even want the hint of a smile. A smile would be creepy,” he said. “Goddammit, show some respect,” Maureen said. The […]
Laughing aloud at the far end of the state prison cell block, two veteran prison guards on duty in the hospital unit for the criminally insane snuck Marlboros under the stairs and gawked toward the cell in the middle of the isolation unit. “Go on,” Christopher Rawlings said. “Go on down and see this crazy […]
“The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels Imagine the primal power of an outlaw motorcycle army thundering through otherwise civilized streets on the road to a cemetery. Think about the […]
By the time I got home from President Joe Biden’s Scranton speech last month, I stood with my official White House issued Gonzo Today press credential hanging from my neck, fuming in the kitchen, threatening to tear off my white dress shirt without unbuttoning the buttons. My fingers hurt so much from trying to undo […]
I’m having a flashback. A blinding California sun hangs like an exploding navel orange in the boundless sky, making me squint in the sweltering summer glare of celebrity. I think I see a zebra. This afternoon in 2005 I’m a guest at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch near Los Olivos, about 125 miles northwest of Los […]
