Sitting in SFO airport drinking what Hunter S Thompson would call breakfast. Chased an interesting interview with a quantum physicist in SF who ties in to the theatrical project and who has fired me off like a high energy particle to collide with others. This state of yours is pretty great so far.
I know, actually, way too much about Hunter S. Thompson's eating habits, so I'll quibble very slightly with you -- HST daily ate a massive breakfast in the classical vein; he loved breakfast. Defined, of course, as the first meal of the day. So usually around 3-4pm. And naturally he had to have some whiskey or rum with it. But still. Anyway. I gotta have some payoff for reading all of his insane rambling letters and journal entries.
Ah yes I remember the full list cited somewhere (Great Shark Hunt?) or an article. Newspapers, grapefruits, a sharp knife, eggs, sausage, rum, ice, bloody Mary. It was the breakfast of a man who was going into battle. Edit: "Breakfast is the only meal of the day that I tend to view with the same kind of traditionalized reverence that most people associate with Lunch and Dinner. I like to eat breakfast alone, and almost never before noon; anybody with a terminally jangled lifestyle needs at least one psychic anchor every twenty-four hours, and mine is breakfast. In Hong Kong, Dallas or at home — and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed — breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half-pound of either sausage, bacon, or corned beef hash with diced chiles, a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict, a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of Key lime pie, two margaritas, and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert... Right, and there should also be two or three newspapers, all mail and messages, a telephone, a notebook for planning the next twenty-four hours and at least one source of good music… All of which should be dealt with outside, in the warmth of a hot sun, and preferably stone naked." - HST
