Watching the Kentucky Derby this Saturday reminded me of one of my favorite articles of all time: The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved, by Hunter S. Thompson (full text here).
How often does the written word elicit a belly laugh? I wish I'd taken better note of this through the years, but I do know that this is an article that certainly made me laugh out loud more than once.
For another laugh-out-loud piece, try David Foster Wallace's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. The chess scene always cracks me up.
Monday, May 4, 2009
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