I picked my own Christmas present this year. As many of you may know, I like writers, and my favorite writers have always been the dangerous variety. I'm talking about Kerouac, Henry Miller, Hemingway, Steinbeck at times, and of course the immortal Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.
The first time I read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas I was hooked. From there I read everthing HST I could find. Eventually I came across the circumstances of his doctorate. He was a 'Doctor of Divinity'. For some reason I'd always thought he was a Dr. of Journalism or Letters or something like that. But nope. Divinity. He'd ordered his doctorate from a mail order church in Modesto California.
So this year, my Christmas present is my own doctorate (legal and legitimate by the way) from the very same church. I join the ranks of quite a few famous ministers. HST of course. But also Milton Berle, Sammy Davis Jr, Mel Blanc, Ray Bolger (who played the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz), Richard Branson, Tony Danza, Hugh Hefner, Abby Hoffman, to name but a few. I'm in some damn fine company!
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