Hunter S Thompson would have turned 82 today

[Alarm Guy]

While I dont agree with the safety aspect, this is fun to watch.

[biofire]

Happy Birthday to a brilliantly crazy writer! Only Hunter Thompson could be friends with Ted Nugent and John Lennon.

[SanPedroShooter]

I approve.

[GoingQuiet]

While I dont agree with the safety aspect, this is fun to watch.

I'd like to take this moment to say that was absolutely awesome. Thank you for sharing.

[Full Clip]

I'll have to toast the day with a nice bourbon for the departed Kentucky gent.

[Freagan]

He definitely bought the ticket, but instead he took us for the ride.





“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”

[GILMORE619]

Thats awesome! Happy birthday Hunter!

[jak77]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing. Happy Birthday Mr. Thompson, you were one cool dude

[ShooterDK]

Somehow, someway I think he's still carrying on.

[BayAreaShooter]

Awesome writer. If you have not watched the documentary on him I would highly recommend it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479468/

[bwiese]

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

[Alarm Guy]

Apparently the info I read was wrong. He was born in 1937 not 1929 like I had originally read, making him 74 years old if he lived. I normally double check my resources but didnt feel it was necessary coming from the History Channel web page. I wonder what else they have wrong over there.

[russ69]

He was financially successful for an addict and a practicing alcoholic.

[goober]

that's a good 'un...

RIP HT

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.

*pours a bit out for the man*

[Spyder]

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives… and to the 'good life,' whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.