How to apply for a job. Fear and loathing style.

An excerpt from a certain Hunter S. Thompson’s application for a newspaper job in 1958. Read the rest, it’s magic.

“As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. If this is what you’re trying to get The Sun away from, then I think I’d like to work for you.”

And no, he didn’t get the job.