Andy Warhol: Bad Tenant

Check the careful bureaucrat speak in this 1965 letter from Andy Warhol‘s landlord about the the loud, dirty, suspicious, off-hours activities at the Factory on 47th street. “We feel that a congregation of the number of people such as you have had may be contrary to various applicable governmental rules and regulations,” tsssk tsssk. Read more »

Hunter S. Thompson to Hollywood Executive: ‘Okay You Lazy Bitch’

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One of my favorite websites these days is “Letters of Note,” a collection of correspondence written by various famous people, and this angry 2001 missive fired off by Hunter S. Thompson to a Hollywood executive handling the adaptation of one of his books is among the best of their collection. Read more »