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Why I want to meet mike tyson

I want to meet him for a number of reasons. First, I’m a pretty big boxing fan, or at least I was until I started back to school for my master’s. This guy is boxing history. He’ll probably keep the distinction of being the youngest heavyweight champ of all times for quite some time to come. And at least in his prime, he never had a boring fight. I can’t say that about Ali. I think Tyson is at times quite witty and insightful. Practically all of my favorite boxing quotations came from his mouth. I’ve seen footage of him conversing about boxing history. He’s no fool. He’s a man who got typecast early on as a raving lunatic, and he just never tried to shake the image. Why would he? That was a part of the massive international attraction. So ok, some people want to take a photo from the top of Mt. Everest. I’d like to get a photo of Mike putting me in a headlock and pretending to bite the top of my skull. Everyone has to die somehow, right?

Why I want to meet Hunter S. Thompson

I guess I don’t really want to meet him anymore. At least not in this life anyway. Maybe in the next, if I can catch him before he moves on yet again. I’d like to do the next best thing and go pour booze on his grave. I annointed Samuel Adams in a similar fashion one night after a (Long Island Iced) tea party in Boston last summer. I’ve always been inspired by H.S.T’s writing style for as long as I’ve known about him. In a pinch one night, during my undergrad, I wrote a ten page paper, start to finish, on the depiction of alchohol and narcotics in Impressionist Art after drinking a fifth of Chivas and smoking some skunky Tampa Bay homegrown. I got a B. I always wanted to thank him in person for the inspiration. Also, I think he would have enjoyed the paper.


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