RIP Hunter S. Thompson

[jakethebake]

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some day you will all understand it was not a sad day in his life.

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nice post. great point.

[Myrtle]

Ray.........

An old friend was an acquaintance of Hunter S. and his wild-man attorney side-kick , Lazlo Toth, back in the wild & wooly 60’s....

I’ll never forget the night my wife & I spent at a bar in Chicago at the Hilton in the mid 80’s with said friend and another guy (name long since forgotten) who was a friend and neighbor to Hunter S.

For a few hours, we were regaled with detailed ‘Hunter stories’ that were so wild, funny and crazy that our sides literally hurt from laughing. I can honestly never remember laughing as much or as hard as we did, as we heard the detailed blow-by-blow of how Hunter & Lazlo ‘assassinated’ various pieces of furniture that they kept dragging out of Hunter’s house.

Although it’s a distant memory, and I can’t remember all of the details clearly, I do remember an incredibly hilarious recounting of couches, chairs and other various pieces of furniture being dispatched in numbers of creative ways via an assortment of firearms, dynamite and incineration by the two of them in an alcohol and drug induced bacchanal to the good old ‘Ultra-V’.

At the time, our teenage nephew was a great Hunter S. fan & we mentioned it to them, and I’ll be damned if about a month or so later an autographed Hunter S. book didn’t show up in the mail with a personal message to nephew.

I’m sure nephew still has it.....I’ll have to call him now to remember the moment.

In any case, Ray, I think I might understand what you’re implying........I don’t think that Hunter left much in the back-room of life as he passed through it.

[brettbrettr]

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Man, that's upsetting. Never realised he was a depressive.

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Really?

[Tommy Angelo]

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -- Hunter Thompson

[Tommy Angelo]

"some day you will all understand it was not a sad day in his life."

You're a very wise man, Ray. I hope you live long enough to get an invite to my going away party.

[IndieMatty]

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. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark -- the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.


RIP Hunter.

[GreywolfNYC]

He was a genius and a true, American original. We will not see the likes of him again.

[Luv2DriveTT]

Fare thee well good Doctor....


For those who have never read Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, the first sentence is one of the most memorable in all of American literature.
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We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

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[toman8r]

I'd like to say RIP. But that doesn't seem appropriate. I know not the truth in these matters but wherever Hunter S. might be, if his soul is anywhere, peace is nowhere nearby. Just the way it should be for a man who embraced madness.

[ethan]

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some day you will all understand it was not a sad day in his life.

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Indeed.

Hopefully HST will get his cannon.