Hunter S. Thompson
 

AP reports that he killed himself today, Sunday.

I don't even know what to say.

I just read that as well : Hunter S. Thompson .

Crap. I so wanted him to live to be 100, if only to piss off all those health nuts he lived by. Godspeed, Hunter.

So terribly sad. I really enjoyed his writing.

This is truly a sad sad loss. I loved his style of writing and don't believe I have ever laughed so hard while reading anyone elses social observations. From Curse of Lono to Hells Angels(two of my favorites), he was both engrossing and entertaining.

I am in the process of reading On the Road(thanks to some posters here and there sig quotes) and had been thinking through the whole thing how much it reminded me of Thompson. I was planning to go back and reread some of my favorites when I finished. I guess I will do so now with a very heavy heart.

I will miss him.

Shocked smiley when I need him?

I am shocked. Truly. I remember doing interpretations of some of his works in my speech class. Wow... And his journalism... He was so strange and worn out and... I'm so sad... :(

Here are a couple of my favorite quotes:

"There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached." (from The Rum Diaries -- which I need to re-read!)


"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master."

Hunter S. Thompson

"Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mold-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of "the rat race" is not yet final."

Hunter S Thompson (1969)

see ya Hunter. and don't forget Sandra Dee and John Raitt...

What a weekend... :(

I wonder what Garry Trudeau is going to make of this? Is Duke doomed?

I forgot about these sites on Hunter.

I thought about this a lot as I went to bed, and as I was trying to find the sites I'd been to before, to find out what they had to say about HST, I found this, which probably sums it all up.

"I also want to say this. We all knew Hunter could go any day. What I expected was a headline like this "Gonzo journalist shot by police after consuming hundreds of hits of LSD and attempting to paint murals on Aspen police cars" or something cool and strange like that. I guess I wanted an Easy Rider type ending... a martyr who fought to the end." -- Lono -- I Am Correct