Hunter S. Thompson...

This is greatly Distrurbing news too me, I think I'll eat now...

 

Regarding Ernest Hemingway: "Perhaps he found what he came here for, but the odds are huge that he didn't. He was an old, sick, and very troubled man, and the illusion of peace and contentment was not enough for him--not even when his friends came up from Cuba and played bullfight with him in the Tram. So finally, and for what he must have thought the best of reasons, he ended it with a shotgun." Hunter wrote that, and maybe there was something more to it and most of us looked over it, maybe not. It's the Good Doctor you can't blame him for a choice he made, after all look at all his contributions to society. Shit, the man even got me into sports (well at least the gambling aspect of sports) my favorite book by him, no contest, is the Great Shark Hunt, the Kingdom of Fear is next, then Hey Rube or F&L on the Campaign Trail, and I think F&L in Las Vegas was the first book I read by him. Either way no writter, but specifically no post-modern writter has touched me like Dr. HST, shit the man was a Genius. I remember distinctly being in my freshman year of high school comming home distraught because the teacher made us seperate the class by what we believe politically and I was the only one on the liberal side of the class room, and when we started the debates I got my ass kicked by in the debates cause it was me & the teacher vs. the entire class (and though they had no idea what they were talking about, neither did I) but I came home that day and there was an issue of Relix in the mail and HST was on the cover. I flip through the pages and came to an article, "Jesus hated bald pussy". That sparked the fire to get me into politics, writting and political writting specifically. May he rest in peace, and may his writtings live on. Mahalo. (If anyone has a copy of that suicide letter, I NEED TO READ IT)

 

"He hasn't done much lately." Are you fucking kidding me?! Now I'm not gettin involved in the I know more about him than you bullshit thats goin on this thread, but please, please, please go out and buy Hey Rube: "Blood sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness", and buy the Kingdom of Fear: "Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century" because those are his last two books he wrote and personally I think they're some of his best work. Really, really excellent ideas, and a lot to think about. And well it applies to our generation more so than Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. But he hasn't lost any fire, check em out. Also his articles for ESPN, and Playboy are GREAT, along with what he writes for Rolling Stone, and what he used to write for High Times. He has lots of great writting out there, and a lot of it is pretty recent. But its not traditional so you have to do a little searching.