RIP Hunter S Thompson

[Steyr_223]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050221/ap_on_re_us/obit_thompson

[Steyr_223]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050221/ap_on_re_us/obit_thompson

I read about this late last night.

Just like Richard Brautigan, it seems that heros of the counter-culture end up this way for some strange reason.
It's pretty sad, IMO.

RIP - Dr. Thompson.
You'll be missed.

[ivanimal]

Fear and loathing is still one of the best reads. Totally what I was into reading in the late 70's. Goodbye Hunter S. I wish you picked a better way out.

What that is I dont know.

[Steyr_223]

He was the man and a true inspiration to me. HST will be missed.

RIP

Steyr

HST house, nice..


http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2005/02/22/mn_obit_thompson_cod.jpg


In his own words.

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive ..." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?"

Then it was quiet again. My attorney had taken his shirt off and was pouring beer on his chest, to facilitate the tanning process. "What the hell are you yelling about?" he muttered, staring up at the sun with his eyes closed and covered with wraparound Spanish sunglasses. "Never mind," I said. "It's your turn to drive." I hit the brakes and aimed the Great Red Shark toward the shoulder of the highway. No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough.

From "Fear and Loathing

in Las Vegas".

Work was impossible. The geeks had broken my spirit. They had done too many things wrong. It was never like this for Mencken. He lived like a Prussian gambler -- sweating worse than Bryant on some nights and drunker than Judas on others. It was all a dehumanized nightmare ... and these raddled cretins have the gall to complain about my deadlines.

From "Bad Nerves in Fat City,"

"Generation of Swine"

[bwiese]

My personal motto, courtesy of HST's Shark Hunt:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I have that on a Ralph Steadman t-Shirt.


Bill Wiese
San Jose

[ivanimal]

Thanks Steyer it made me want to cry.

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Going out with a bang

Hunter S. Thompson, lover of all things that go boom, is likely tipping his red-tipped Dunhill at the book-reading public this week in response to his explosive book sales, which have skyrocketed following the gonzo journalist's suicide Sunday.

Within 24 hours of Thompson's passing, the sales rank of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" had surged 4,052 percent, bringing the book's Monday sales ranking in the Amazon.com Top Sellers list for Books to No. 34 from No. 1,412. The film version of the book has fared equally well – less than two days ago, the Criterion Collection DVD held the No. 425 position on Amazon.com's Top Sellers in DVDs. As of publication, the film was ranked 29th.

Meanwhile, in keeping with his pyromaniacal tendencies, <span class="ev_code_RED">Thompson has requested in his final wishes that his ashes be fired across his Colorado estate by a cannon.</span> </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I can't help but to get a laugh out of this as I suspect Dr Thompson intended it to do.


Link (the second section) (http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050225/news_lz1c25pubeye.html)