RECOMMENDED: The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved by Hunter S. Thompson & Ralph Steadman, 1970 / 2026 🚬 📠 🪓 🕶️ 🍊🍊🍊 🍹 🎨 🏁 🐎 🇺🇸

"The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved" is a sports article written by journalist Hunter S. Thompson on the 1970 Kentucky Derby, which first appeared in Scanlan's Monthly in June of that year.

>> The black-humored art of Ralph Steadman is forever linked with the outrageous writing of the late Hunter S. Thompson, the dean of gonzo journalism and a longtime contributor to Rolling Stone. Steadman, an English cartoonist and painter, first accompanied his friend to the Kentucky Derby at the end of the Sixties – an assignment that infamously helped Thompson create his unique style of writing, which ran roughshod over any pretense of objectivity and evenhandedness. << - www.rollingstone.com

 

 

The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved