Unbelievable. CMT is hiring someone to be "Vice President, CMT Dukes of Hazzard Institute". It's a one-year post with a $100,000 contract. That buys a lot of bacon.
Job responsibilities include:
- watch The Dukes of Hazzard weeknight on CMT
- know the words to The Dukes of Hazzard theme song, Good Ol' Boys
- write The Dukes of Hazzard Institute online blog for cmt.com
- serve as expert on all things The Dukes of Hazzard
- maybe take The General Lee for a spin now and then
A few weeks back, a buddy had an interview and ended up in the mens room at a urinal adjacent to his interviewer:
I really had to go badly and wasn't stopping anytime soon, and then I thought, "should I outpiss this guy?" That might not be a smart move. But I did anyway. I really had to go.
He's got management material written all over him.
It was in the heat of deadline that gonzo journalism was born while he was writing a story about the Kentucky Derby for Scanlan's magazine, he recounted years later in an interview in Playboy magazine.
"I'd blown my mind, couldn't work," he told Playboy. "So finally I just started jerking pages out of my notebook and numbering them and sending them to the printer. I was sure it was the last article I was ever going to do for anybody."
Instead, he said, the story drew raves and he was inundated with letters and phone calls from people calling it "a breakthrough in journalism," an experience he likened to "falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool of mermaids."
Hunter S. Thompson, died Sunday, February 20th, 2005, at his home in Colorado of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Read HST's last article, written for ESPN's Page 2, titled Shotgun Golf with Bill Murray.
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