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Title: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: Po~ReverendMoss on February 21, 2005, 08:11:57 pm http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/02/21/thompson.obit.ap/index.html
What can i say? I almost can't believe it. Somehow it makes sense that he shot himself though... My day just got weirder. Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: Civrock on February 21, 2005, 08:20:41 pm the first thought i had was... that it's Po)| Hunter S. Thompson. :o
then i checked the news... Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: seth on February 21, 2005, 08:38:13 pm That movie with Depp and Del Toro is a must see.
Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: BFG on February 21, 2005, 10:29:43 pm Quote the first thought i had was... that it's Po)| Hunter S. Thompson. yeah i wasn't sure what to expect then. Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: KGB on February 21, 2005, 11:21:25 pm The good doctor is no more.
This was a man that kicked the establishment in the nuts over and over again, and I salute him for that. Rest in peace Doc. Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: Mr.Mellow on February 22, 2005, 01:50:30 am Such a shame, he was truly one of the few unique journalists of our time. In honor of HST, I'm going to drop some acid, drink some pure human adrenaline, and then snort a lot of snow! Who's joining me?
Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: c| Spetsnaz. on February 22, 2005, 03:27:11 am A very talented journalist indeed, may he RIP. I shall take a wicked z0ng rip in his honour.
Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: Po~ReverendMoss on February 22, 2005, 07:31:02 am the first thought i had was... that it's Po)| Hunter S. Thompson. :o then i checked the news... About three hours after i posted this i thought, Oh shit. I bet everyone is freaking out about Tony. Sorry, man. ::lol:: Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: DarK. on February 22, 2005, 02:53:25 pm yeah, well someone said that last night and I was like "wtf I saw him on earier today" and they were like nu huh... then I figured out it wasnt Po HST... Anyway I also went and wished HST my condolences on his death. Quite a sad event.
Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: BFG on February 22, 2005, 06:00:08 pm hehe, i read in the paper today that apparently HST recently refered to the idea of four more years of GW Bush, as like "four more years of Syphilis" ::lol::
Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: BTs_GhostSniper on February 22, 2005, 06:25:18 pm hehe, i read in the paper today that apparently HST recently refered to the idea of four more years of GW Bush, as like "four more years of Syphilis" ::lol:: Maybe he did, but look who's still alive, and look who's dead. But hey, I hear suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism. Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: c| Spetsnaz. on February 22, 2005, 07:49:07 pm Hunter Thompson on 9/11
From a March 2003 interview: HT: He's taken this nation from a, let me think looking at it from a, just objectively, from a prosperous nation at peace to a broke nation at war. Right, but I mean, there were those assholes who flew the plane into the World Trade Center. HT: Who were they indeed? Now, do you believe that, that a bunch of Arabs jumped up from some kind of a campfire and fucking mountains over there and snuck into this country and hijacked those planes and did that by themselves? Well what are you proposing? I mean I think they were funded years ago by the CIA and it was a blowback, but, I don't think there was any direct... Are you saying there might be some other American agency or some international agency that directly supported them in that? HT: Uhh, this is tricky territory, but yeah, that's what I'm getting at. Really. HT: I can't sit here and jerk up documents like Joe McCarthy, there's no proof of that. But I'm sure there is. And the idea that we're getting the whole story through the media, or from the president, is absurd on its face because you never do, for one thing. And there's so many unanswered questions and loose ends and uh, lets see, well, lies! Full Monty:http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=287 Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: BTs_GhostSniper on February 22, 2005, 07:52:43 pm Hmmm, so are you saying the American Government had something to do with his suicide, Spets?
Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: c| Spetsnaz. on February 22, 2005, 08:10:04 pm No, nor do I think that.
Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: seth on February 22, 2005, 09:20:14 pm that was close ! For a moment, i thought we were going back to an argument about 9/11.
That reminds me the author is still on the loose after 4 years. What pisses me off, is that if i cheated the IRS for 5 grands, they'd find me in a heart beat :-X Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: fahq2 on February 22, 2005, 09:39:50 pm Does anyone else wonder if he did it in the tub while listening for the climax to white rabbit.
just a thought. Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: KGB on February 23, 2005, 09:33:06 pm I would like to ask for a little respect for the death of this man.
May I remind you that some people got their panties in a twist after reagan death. http://www.damnr6.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=6483.0 But hey some people say one thing but do the complete opposite. Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: *NADS Lo$eMoney on February 24, 2005, 01:35:13 am "We were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. You can almost see the high-water mark - the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back." Hunter S Thompson on the 60's
Damn there goes one of the last of a great generation of free thinkers. Apparently he spent the last weekend of his life with his son and grandchild, a fine way to go out if you ask me. It is believed he commit suicide because he didn't want to face the indignity of being an old man. If you have only seen the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas I recommend the book. They're very similar but, hot damn, the book has some classic quotes. "In a closed society where everyone is guilty the only final sin is getting caught. In a world of thieves the only final sin is stupidity." Hunter S Thompson 1937-2005 Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: dr. letum on February 25, 2005, 08:32:18 am Lose, that book sits on my dashboard everytime I make the journey from Southern California through Barstow to Vegas, carreening towards what HST called the "Heart of the American Dream". I am making 2 trips in the coming weeks, one of which is for a bachelor party. You can bet dollars to donuts I will be sure to make room once again for that book. The movie was great, and I saw it AFTER reading the book, and the difference was huge. The writing of this man was nothing short of pure genious. He wrote as if he tapped into the veins of a superman on a meth-amphetimine binge. From "Hell's Angels" to "On the Campaign Trail" adn beyond, his work was nothing short of pure literary revolution. Many writers have since made feeble attempts to replicate his style, but no one, not even god himself could ever duplicate the great Doctor Hunter S. Thompson.
"Get out of control, but appear under control. It's not bad to alarm other people, though - it's good for them." (Hunter S. Thompson) "History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of 'history' it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time - and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened." (Hunter S. Thompson) "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, Hells Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga) "I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me." (Hunter S. Thompson) "Some may never live, but the crazy never die." (Hunter S. Thompson) (http://www.lokikirjat.com/thompson.jpg) Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: seth on February 25, 2005, 05:18:39 pm i just heard on the radio that he shot himself while on the phone with his wife. Instead of saying bye at the end of conversation, he put the phone down and then shot himself.
Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: Brutha on February 28, 2005, 09:22:12 am I wonder...do you celebrate him as a hero of some sort? Do you think he felt like that, or even wanted to be celebrated like one? Thats probably why he chose to shoot himself....
Shame a man died, but face it...suicides tend to give you a hint about the person who did it, and one can say that rarely has a happy person killed himself/herself. Title: Re: Hunter S. Thompson dead Post by: Po~ReverendMoss on March 01, 2005, 07:10:31 am If anything he was an anti-hero. An example that everyone can be a free-thinking, honest and inventive person. He certainly had a lot of great ideas. I'm better for him having shared them.
If anything he shot himself to choose the time and place of his passing. Like poor old Maude in Harold and Maude he probably just wanted to get while the gettin' was good. Ralph Steadman's site had a lot to say on the subject and i choose to believe as Steadman does; HST was a helluva writer and an Everyman we can all walk beside, if not look up to. The king is dead. Long live the king. |