"Most smart people tend to feel queasy when the conversation turns to things like 'certain death' and 'total failure' and the idea of a 'doomed generation.' But not me. I am comfortable with these themes."
-- Hunter S. Thompson

It was pointed out to me earlier today that my blog name is taken directly from a Hunter S. Thompson quote. While I'm an admirer of the doctor and his work, I would like to state unequivocally that I did not rip this blog's title from that quote or any other. Instead, I ripped it from the titles of two of Thompson's books, Generation of Swine and Songs of the Doomed. Not surprising, I suppose, that by doing so I managed to arrive at a quote by the very same author -- generation-wide pronouncements of doom were a common theme of the man's work. Maybe that's why I liked his writing so much. Hell, I'm not just "comfortable" with themes like "certain death," "total failure" and "a doomed generation" -- I actually get a kick out of them. If you don't laugh in the face of Doom and Death, then you will surely cry. And you can't let Death see you cry. He will think less of you, and he enjoys culling the weak.

That is all.