Ok. First piece of news. Ralph "Sonny" Barger, legendary founder of the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club is not a functional illiterate. In fact, get this, he actually wrote a book about his life. Well, to be honest, Sonny probably didn't do much of the writing. He had two ghost writers Keith & Kent Zimmerman help him with Hell's Angels: The Life & Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. Sort of rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it? And a clever, too.

Well, for most of the book, Sonny exlpains his draw to the open road, his love for bikes and his brotherhood with his club members. The whole book, which runs 255 pages, could be probably be condensed into a few paragraphs. Let me give it a try right here.

Hi, I'm Sonny Barger. I founded the Hell's Angels. We know you don't like us. We don't like you. We fucking kill pencil necks like you for even looking at us. People are afraid of us. We fight with anyone who wants to fight and many who don't. We deal drugs. Why won't the cops forget that we deal heroin and leave us the fuck alone? We'll do time in prision, because freedom ain't cheap.

Sonny gives a plug to his website a few times in the book, but when I tried it was down, but have fear, if you sprechen sie deutsch, you're in luck because the German version is up and running.