Say something for Hunter S. Thompson

[Kindbud03]

For those of you who don't know, Thompson was found at his home in Colorado dead (feb. 20) from a gun shot wound to the head. He took his own life.
And for those of you who don't know he was the best writer of all time, the gonzo of journalism. He's met, talked with and wrote about everyone from Timothy Leary to President Nixon. He is the one who wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a story about his incredible \"trip\" through the heart of the American Dream.
Mr. Thompson had inspired me to take up journalism and become a writer about 2 years back. I was completely shocked and horrified by the news. For me, it's too early to delve too deep into my emotions...I will post something more about this sometime in the future.

[gunnergip]

I am right there with you my man. I have been nothing but obsessed with Hunter and his writing since my first glance at Fear and Loathing back in high school. I guess you could say that Hunter's writing is arguably the number one reason in why I am an English major and soon to be English teacher. The man saw the world from a completely different angle than most and instead of truly embracing that view, many were turned off by it. While I did not know Hunter personally, I believe that he was a man who ignored such ideas as pressure, risk, and being told what to do and what not to do. Hunter S. Thompson was and always will be a role model to me.

[Missouri Mitch]

Having followed Hunter's career for over 30 years, I am amazed he lasted on this planet as long as he did. His writings are wickedly profound and could easily be used as history books in any institute of higher learning.
I will truly miss his art.

[randall747]

I've tried to post something on this thread but couldn't come up with anything good enough for HST... So I'll just post some good pics and quotes of another great American icon gone...


\"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. \"




\"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. \"






\"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. \"






\"There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda... You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.... And that, I think, was the handle --- that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting --- on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave...\"






\"Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.\"






\"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.\"





?We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.?





?My concept of death for a long time was to come down that mountain road at a hundred and twenty and just keep going straight right there, burst out through the barrier and hang out above all that . . . and there I'd be sitting in the front seat, stark naked, with a cast of whiskey next to me, and a case of dynamite in the trunk . . . honking the horn, and the lights on, and just sit there in space for an instant, a human bomb, and fall down into that mess of steel mills. It'd be a tremendous goddamn explosion. No pain. No one would get hurt. I'm pretty sure, unless they've changed the highway, that launching place is still there. As soon as I get home, I ought to take a drive just to check it out.?




RIP HST

[Missouri Mitch]

Well done randall747!! Great tribute!

[SaraJuana]

I couldnt agree more!!! Bravo!!!!

On, another note, whats up Mitch. Nathan and I send our Grateful Lovins! Had a great time with you and your wife last year!-SJ

[Enoch]

I took a writing class last fall and one night I was watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and started writing a story in which he found his way into. Good night Hunter, I hope that you've found your peace.

\"Watching Thompson writhing in the grips of deranged paranoia, I felt that maybe he did actually find the American dream, and that the dream was so horrible and ugly that reality had been violently stripped from him.

Looking back on it now, it seems to me that Thompson was the broken and abused child who spent his days suffering so that we could live like the residents of Omelas, living out our American dreams blissfully unaware while he suffered through his nightmare.\"

http://www.robertherring.com/archives/000195.html

[Jackstraw]

Pure Gonzo Journalism... RIP

HAHAHA wait a minute... I post a hunter post first and no one replies.. oh the love!!!

[Missouri Mitch]

Yo Sara...I thought I would see you post to this thread. Hugs right back at ya!!
Check your PM's

[DreadyKC]

God bless HunterS. Tomphson.... it is so sad...