Ad - Wednesday, November 23, 1983 - North Shore News A Hunter in HUNTER S. THOMPSON, the king of gonzo journalism, isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but he has just come out with what I think is his finest book yet. And by ‘‘fine’’ I mean crude, savage, heretical, nasty, rotten and outrageously funny. It’s called The Curse of Lono and it is based, to begin with, on a famous article he wrote a couple of years ago for a running magazine whose editor had the cheeky idea of flying Thompson, all expenses paid, to Hawaii to cover the 1980 Honolulu Marathon. For good measure, the mag promised to cover the costs of the British artist Ralph Steadman, who has so gloriously illustrated previous HST works like the classic Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. I must confess here to a certain lack of objectivity. I hung out with Steadman a bit in London a few years ago and got into very serious trouble which made Stead- man so proud of me that he later illustrated a magazine article of my own. We'd got- ten drinking, you see, and I ended up being ambushed in a tube station by a gang of skinheads. I survived, but that’s another story. Just wanted to be honest about being partial to Ralph. The Curse of Lono starts off, innocently enough, as this swell magazine article about the Honolulu Marathon and pokes fun at the hordes of crazies running through the streets in the hope not of winning but of finishing the race. It is very 20th Century mass sport, FOR 1984 No way around dump fee hike Thompson observes, in which losing has been sanc- ufied as the real object of the game. ‘Nuff said about the marathon. After it’s over, Thompson and Steadman go over to Kona Beach and stay there for a month, and the book begins. Thompson’s real subject is Hawaii, what a disgusting place it is. I know, 1] know. For rain-besotted British Col- umbians, it is the jet age Mec- ca. When the crime rate goes up there, we fret more than we do when crime increases here at home. There is something unholy about our rented paradise being impinged-upon by thugs, even if they happen to be restless, dispossessed natives. The best line I’ve heard about Hawaii is that it’s Blaine with palm trees. Not being one of those souls who yearns to go to seed in the tropics, 1 have always found Hawaii to be too damned hot. If I try to go swimming, I almost always get attacked by a killer wave that tries to suck my poor coral-whipped, sun-burned body out to sea. Lying on a beach getting ir- radiated while sand penetrates your every orifice has always struck me as being possibly the most vacant- minded human activity im- aginable. It may be a perfect- ly honorable undertaking for THERE’S NO way around garbage disposal fee hikes in 1984 for North Vancouver District residents, unless the proposed rate prove too high, council decided Monday. But before the new collcc ion and disposal rates are passed by council in a bylaw amendment, they first want proof the proposed charges are jusafied and tin line with costs levied by other municipalities for simular scrvices “Capital expenditures at the landfill from 1980 to 1983 have been exceptionally high.’ explained District E.nginect Harry McBride in a letter to council, ‘‘and fur ther (expenses) are capected in 1984 "" To pay for increased capital spending at Premier Street dump, cnginccring staff have dctermined that disposal rates will have to rise from $1350 a tonne to $15 50 a tonne tn 1984 for commerctal and gencral waste disposal Under current santtary Jandfill poly. District operates collectton and disposal services (to break even in the operation However, if the new rates are approved by council ut would mean Dtstriet ts an tually gheaning a small profi from the landfill By CHARLES MAYER About $3 mulhion will be spent to upgrade the con troversial landfill during a five year penod Garbage pick up [ces will also be boosted for con- tainerized debris and 1s slated to yump from 1983's level of $5 25 10 $6 25 fot cach addi tional container placed out for collectton during schedul ed truck calls Extra pick-up of con taincrized garbage of District trucks outside of scheduled services will jump from $6.25 to $7.25 under the proposed rates “it (the new fees) appears to me to be caceptuionally reasonabic,”” remarked Ald Frme ( rist However) Mayor Marityn Baker showed concern about the proposed cates and sug acsted council crxamine the figures before pumping to ap prove them She said i would be wise sf the enginecring state preparca a ecport to see how the rates compare with other montorpalitves charges Against waste colbeaticven feve A) seals in their rookeries, but surely people can find better things to do. However, that’s a niggling point. The truth about Hawaii is that it has no soul. It attracts degenerates of all sorts. Its condo mentality makes the property-owners of Hong Kong look like social workers. I say this all light- heartedly, you understand, not wanting to pick a fight with anybody. But = after about a half-dozen visits to the islands, I decided that the people living there were all suffering from a malaise known as islomania (the madness that comes from liv- ing on an island) and the tourists behaved for the most part like Moslem assassins who thought they had come to Allah’s bawdyhouse in the sky. The dazzling physical opulence of the place had an underlying rotted mango fruit ambience, if you know what | mean. There was the feeling, probably a solid in- tuition, that if you laid still on the ground for too long, creepy-crawly things would begin to gnaw at you from within. A mere scratch can its users. If the new reasonable, then council should indicate approval through passing the necessary bylaw amendment. Council’s requested staff report will be evaluated at the next policy and planning committee meeting. tates) prove rere Pic:a-pop ( estomer Signatare dark paradise strictly personal by Bob Hunter turn into a festering wound in no time at all. The Curse of Lono por- trays this dark side of paradise beter than anything else I’ve ever read about the islands. | expect that if either Thompson or Steadman try to go back there, they’ll be shot on sight. Good work, men! BMW MUNICH GERMANY c 1982 BMW ot Norn Amend a inc The BMW trademark and logo are regstered trademarks uf Bayer he Motoren Werke AG Park Shore Motors Lid. 108 Bowser Avenue North Vancouver 985-9344 PIC - A - POP **MIX OR MATCH — MANY FLAVORS”’ (ONLY ONE COUPON PER CUSTOMER) $4.99 PER CASE OF 24 / 300 mi BOTTLES WITH COUPON Rae —SAVES100 Offer Exptresa: December 11, 1983 970 MARINE DR.N. 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