"The best year to be a hippie was 1965, but then there was not much to write about, because not much was happening in public and most of what was happening in private was illegal..." (Scroll to the bottom for the HST text)."We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold...""There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp- speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them..."The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.Nine hard to find pieces from early in Thompson's career, all scanned in their original layouts. (Click the images to enlarge.)