David Pennington

On his personal website, he wrote, "My new book, The Joke's Over, emerged as a form of therapy after the shock of sudden death following the suicide of my friend of 35 years, Hunter S Thompson.

"He always said that he would do it but that does not prepare you for the reality of the brutal act.

"As I once printed on a brown paper bag in handset type,... See more

“Right now, we need writers who know the difference between the production of a market commodity and the practice of an art.”

The internet is (mostly) a machine for light things.

The scientific virtues are:

• Stupidity


• Arrogance


• Laziness


• Carefreeness


• Beauty


• Rebellion


• Humor

“Generally everyone is misunderstood, and you realize it’s not your job to make people understand you,” Le Bon said. “It’s your job to work and align yourself with your own integrity. I think that’s even harder to harness when you’re an artist as big as Annie. But she does.”

She wrote on Hollywood and Washington, New York and Sacramento, Terri Schiavo and Martha Stewart, grief and hypocrisy and Latin American politics, and somehow it all drove toward the same point: Narratives are coping mechanisms. If we want to truly understand ourselves, we have to understand not just the stories we make up together, but the tales... See more

“Imagine if you owned the Lakers or the Yankees, and put all the emphasis on the team brand—but kept reducing the pay to actual players.”