The Doctor is In

Last night I spent a memorable evening at The Half King, convened to honor Hunter S. Thompson, who needs no introduction. (Well, if we must…) My friend Corey Seymour was on hand to read from GONZO: THE LIFE OF HUNTER S. THOMPSON (Little, Brown),  his definitive oral history of the late, great hellraiser. Scores of Wenner Media alumni were on hand (present company included), crammed tightly into the Half King’s low-lit back room. Seymour, joined on stage by various former associates on the Hunter beat — otherwise known as Rolling Stone Magazine’s National Affairs Desk — recounted some highlights of his job as Thompson’s official minder at the magazine, each more unhinged, extralegal, and hilarious than the last.