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twin58
Just coming over the radio now. Self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Edited to add:

Author Hunter S. Thompson Commits Suicide

I didn't think he was much of a writer.

[ February 20, 2005, 08:58 PM: Message edited by: twin58 ]
Jim Allen
Then you should check out Fear and Loathing on the Campign Trail and give it a read (again?). It's widely considered the best book ever written about a campaign.

Sure, he was a pretty one-note writer--by the 80's, his schtick had worn pretty thin, I'd say--but Hell's Angels and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas are terrific books. The beginning of Fear and Loathing is my favorite book beginning ever:
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We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like \"I feel a bit lightheaded....maybe you should drive\". And suddenly, there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming \"Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals\".
twin58
"Then you should check out Fear and Loathing on the Campign Trail and give it a read (again?)."

"Again" is right. I might have a copy lying around. I'm pretty sure I have "Las Vegas" too.

I agree with your "one note" assessment.
billsf
When I was in college at the University of Texas many years ago I went to a "lecture" that Thompson was giving. He was hysterical. During the program he finished off an entire quart of booze, Wild Turkey I think.

I fondly remember reading the installments of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas when they appeared in Rolling Stone. Too bad the movie was so wrong.
Jim Allen
I came across this and cackled like a deranged hyena:
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We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world--a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us...No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you.

Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid rich kids like George Bush?

They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us--they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis.

And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. f**k them.
I don't think he was too fond of NASCAR either, which makes him a god in my book.
George Twins fan
Thompson's ashes were snet into the sky during a fireworks celebration yesterday in Aspen per his wishes.

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The private celebration included actors Bill Murray and Johnny Depp, rock bands, blowup dolls and plenty of liquor to honor Thompson, who killed himself six months ago at the age of 67.
I wonder if the mourners went \"oooh\" and \"aaah\".
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