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Posted: Feb 21, 2005 - 3:37am

Posted: Feb 21, 2005 - 1:42am

sans wrote:

He packed a lot of livin in. I was heavily influenced.

Influenced? I barely survived Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.....

It just hurts even more to lose him now when he is needed most.

Posted: Feb 21, 2005 - 12:47am

phineas wrote:

Interesting ---- I hadn't thought otherwise. Any particular reason you think that?

Oh, and

my aren't you up late for a zipper.

Indeed, I am. Gotta crawl into bed momentarily.

There's no particular reason, it's more like all the reasons. I'm tired, but I'll try to tell you why without sounding like a wackjob (even if I am one.) ;) *deleted because I'm picking apart my own words as I read them. gotta sleeeeeep.*

I dunno, honestly. I'm naturally skeptical about most things. This one bothers me. Scares me even. Perhaps I just need to sleep.

He was absolutely one of a kind.

G'night, my favorite Canadian.

why wasn't his wife home, btw?

Posted: Feb 21, 2005 - 12:25am

zipper wrote:

I'm surprised, too. And not yet convinced that it was a suicide.

Interesting ---- I hadn't thought otherwise. Any particular reason you think that?

Oh, and

my aren't you up late for a zipper.

Posted: Feb 21, 2005 - 12:22am

phineas wrote:

I'm surprised at how surprised I am by this. I mean, drugs, drink, guns, madness.... obviously that fear and loathing ran through all his thoughts.

Had anybody read these later works? "Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and The Downward Spiral of Dumbness" has the sound of a potential disaster of a book, with moments of greatness.

I'm surprised, too. And not yet convinced that it was a suicide.

Posted: Feb 20, 2005 - 10:57pm

Goodbye Hunter

Pint-taste bitter the Vat 69 wrests a tear
from eyes grown dry with hopes of victory.
The heroes of my youth are fallen and I cannot
find the sacrificial move to save the day.

I am weary of surviving. The insignificance
of my passions mocks me in the shaving mirror.

The bats have won.

Stuart Andrew Marshall Tanner

Posted: Feb 20, 2005 - 10:49pm

oldslabsides wrote:

Damn.

R.I.P., Doc.

THIS SUCKS!!!! :P :P :P

(why couldn't he have been like Burroughs and shot his wife instead?)

Posted: Feb 20, 2005 - 10:32pm

I have his books + they are filled w/ equal-parts intellect + madness.

Very
VERY
SAD

Posted: Feb 20, 2005 - 10:29pm

Aww fuck.

Posted: Feb 20, 2005 - 10:20pm

He packed a lot of livin in.
I was heavily influenced.

Posted: Feb 20, 2005 - 9:14pm

Hunter didn't think highly of the music business:

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

Too soon gone. :(

Posted: Feb 20, 2005 - 9:14pm

newwavegurly wrote:

A sad day indeed. :(

Yeah. We needed this guy. Damn.

Posted: Feb 20, 2005 - 8:51pm

A sad day indeed. :(

Posted: Feb 20, 2005 - 8:45pm

a great loss.

Posted: Feb 20, 2005 - 8:44pm

RichardPrins wrote:

Author Hunter S. Thompson kills himself
Associated Press

ASPEN, Colo. - Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of journalism in books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67.

"Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family," Juan Thompson said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News.

Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis, a personal friend of Thompson, confirmed the death to the News. Sheriff's officials did not return calls to The Associated Press late Sunday.

Posted: Feb 20, 2005 - 8:44pm

RichardPrins wrote:

Author Hunter S. Thompson kills himself
Associated Press

ASPEN, Colo. - Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of journalism in books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67.

"Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family," Juan Thompson said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News.

Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis, a personal friend of Thompson, confirmed the death to the News. Sheriff's officials did not return calls to The Associated Press late Sunday.

I'm surprised at how surprised I am by this. I mean, drugs, drink, guns, madness.... obviously that fear and loathing ran through all his thoughts.

Had anybody read these later works? "Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and The Downward Spiral of Dumbness" has the sound of a potential disaster of a book, with moments of greatness.

Posted: Feb 20, 2005 - 8:44pm

Damn.

R.I.P., Doc.

Posted: Feb 20, 2005 - 8:43pm

NO!

Posted: Feb 20, 2005 - 8:37pm

Author Hunter S. Thompson kills himself
Associated Press

ASPEN, Colo. - Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of journalism in books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67.

"Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family," Juan Thompson said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News.

Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis, a personal friend of Thompson, confirmed the death to the News. Sheriff's officials did not return calls to The Associated Press late Sunday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson