Maybe you know by now that I see (and hear) double. Or you could call it duality, parallelism… the name you give it doesn’t matter.  

Plain fact is, a lot of things have the obvious side, and then another less obvious one.  Most times, the less obvious angle is the most informative, revealing, and interesting.  

Hunter S. Thompson rode with the Oakland, California chapter of the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club in the late 1960s, then wrote a book about the experience.  They knew up front what he was doing—nothing covert there—but they weren’t entirely happy with the end product, either.

In his National Bestseller Hell’s Angel (a killer book that I recommend), founding club member Sonny Barger describes Thompson as a coward: “All show and no go.”  On page 126 Sonny tells about the day Thompson got what was coming to him.  He’d just finished up writing the book, and Thompson had asked to join the Angels on a gun run to Squaw Rock.   

While there, a club member called Junkie George (that’s him above) got into an argument (more…)