By Warren Ellis – Okay, so I get to write about what I like and what influenced me then and now. Fair enough. Shut up at the back there. I’m attracted, in my reading, to use of language and interesting ideas. Nobody uses language quite like Hunter S. Thomp­son—like an iron bar on your kidneys and dangly bits, hitting you until you either give in or pee blood for the rest of your days. He’s a journalist, though he behaves more like some violently hallucinating idiot savant slumped in a gutter, and his was the first journalism I ever enjoyed just for its writing. Fear And Loathing On The Campaign…