Hunter S. Thompson dead
 

on cnn.com

self inflicted gunshot wound. that sucks

wait dead? who is he??

holy shit

Who was he...links?

Ok. who the fuck is that?

wow, he had it coming

Wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Damn, the world is a little saner and sadder now. :pimp :(

Sad...very sad :(

Get the fuck out! Read most of his stuff.....he was doing some work for ESPN2 - had a great column.....

Never heard of him but RIP anyways...a shame living that long and ending your life like that

At least he lead an interesting life. RIP.

Who is he? :(

Anyone asking who he is.....are you kidding? Are you 12?

I can sorta understand if you are not in US.....but if you are.......visit a book store sometime......

XPorn

Amazing.... a sea of cluelessness.

http://www.gonzo.com

We run black - in memory.

I heard that too, and I don't feel like reading this entire forum

I guess Shotgun Golf did not get the warm reception he had hoped for.
Sounds like a fun game to play when you are drunk or on drugs. :thumbsup

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...hompson/050216

Damn, thats to bad, he was the man

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...ion=6.0.12.872

RIP Hunter

Get the fuck out! Read most of his stuff.....he was doing some work for ESPN2, He was the only real journalist - He basically created a real foul and low mood in his articles so when he dropped THE TRUTH it didn't seem as harsh. Imagine, an journalist looking for the truth, and then reporting it!!!

He almost blew up his nemis/source of rage Richard Nixon by smoking next to a private Jet while re-fueling.

The guy rode with the Hell's Angels back when they were hard. Oakland chapter I think, he got stomped which ended his relationship with the angels.

he ran to be Mayor or sheriff of Aspen to basically fight the old money

He really, really liked Wild Turkey and Firearms

If you don't know this guy maybe its time to start reading. I think this guy qualifies as a true patriot and American. (he actually financed his younger brother's college so he could dodge the draft during the Invasion of Korea, despite his brother's hatred of college)

what else to say? He really did a great job of examining his surroundings like he was an outsider, which made is insight extremely accurate. look him up

Movies:

Where the Buffalo Roam
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Books:
He has a lot, and correspondance oh - and a wicked article titled "The hammerhead Shark" where he supposes if the Duke were to encounter Thomas Jefferson the Duke would kick the living shit out of that upstart rebel.

and if this ain't true and he's still kicking, check him out anyway he's wicked

:(

Highly upsetting.

We stayed his his favorite room at the Chateau Marmont in LA a couple weeks ago...the room where him and the other guys hashed out the Fear and Loathing screenplay. He's was one of my all time favorites. Sad day

Some people base their entire value of importance on post count.

Pearl
Well put!

That fucking sucks!!! he was the shit!! :(

Yet another great person I won't meet. Really, just to sit and chat over a glass or bottle of WT.......Runs black....

OMG. How sad. :( Although somehow I think we all knew it would end this way for him.

drugs and depression

Sad day. Anybody that doesn't know who he is, I recommend getting familiar. He was in touch with the rhythm of the world from time to time.



"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."
- Hunter S. Thompson

Or they actually don't know..I don't live in the states and never read any of his books...I guess some people aren't as intellectual as you :error

I just found out.. im shocked.. normally this sort of stuff doesn't concern me, celebs dying.. but it's different when a writer dies.. I grew up reading his articles in rolling stone. A sad day indeed.

Wow... sad day...

In my own pitiful form of tribute, I guess I'll bust out my favorite HST quotation.

I don't expect, under the current political climate, that he'll receive an awe-filled hagiography... though I surely believe he deserves one.

Rest peaceful, Hunter. If there's a hell, I'll see you there. :thumbsup

rip :(

i can't believe some of you people don't know who he is/was...

"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls... but the only thing that worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge..."

- Hunter S. Thompson


RIP

R.I.P. HST
We enjoyed you while you were here!

Wow, so sad... crazy mother fucker though.. it was only a matter of time.

I'm really shocked how many people haven't heard of him... Is he just unknown outside of the USA?

Rip Hst
 

I just read the news that Hunter S. Thompson took his life today.

Not much makes me cry anymore, but I was truly saddened upon learning of this event. Sad and angry too, as I was when Kurt Cobain took his life.

For those of you who don't know who HST was, please go out and get one of his books, and be prepared for a trip unlike any you have experienced before.

Hunter was the inventor of "Gonzo Journalism". For those of you who know what gonzo porn is, and I think that is most of you, just translate that to literature, keeping in mind that literature is a substantially higher art form.

How ironic that the first HST book I read (back in the 60's), "Hells Angels", was also the last one I read just a year or so ago. It was witty, inventive and satirical, and it was also ballsy, in your face reality, both when I first read it, and again when I rediscovered it decades later.

HST took you places few writers have taken people before, and created a new form of writing along the way.

I had the opportunity to meet Hunter once, when I sponsored him to speak at my University (circa 1982). It was an event few who attended will ever forget. HST arrived wearing his trademark poker visor, puffing on a cigarette through his ever present 10" long cigarette holder.

His contract rider called for a bottle of Wild Turkey whiskey and a pitcher of ice water - with that in place, he took his seat, and without delivering the expected lecture, he simply asked the audience what they wanted to talk about.

Over two hours of spontaneous Q&A transpired, which was just as Hunter's writing was - pure, uncensored, and completely off the wall humor and analysis about the most serious issues of the day.

After the lecture was over, I had Hunter sign the ten or so books of his that I had brought along which he did with great patience, appreciative of the people that loved his writing.

He is, and will probably forever be imitated, however he will always be the original...

RIP HST :cry:

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