Thompson had spent an intimate weekend with his son, daughter-in-law and young grandson, Brinkley said."He was trying to really bond and be close to the family" before his suicide, Brinkley said.
Heartwarming, eh?
Always go out with a bang.
Since he obviously considered life so worthless, just flush him.
...it's the funeral that's shot from guns!
(Dad taught me the Quaker Puffed Wheat jingle when I was a kid.)
Just hope they don't shoot into the wind.
I didn't agree with him politically, but I loved his work. I also loved his no-guts support for the 2nd amendment among other things. One of my favorite writers. Too bad I never got to meet him.
Shooting the drug laced remains of Hunter S. Thompson out of a cannon should be considered an environmental hazard.
A jackass till the end, and even in death.
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Am I the only person who's noticed the startling similarities between Rosie Grier and Douglas Brinkley?
Is this the same Brinkley who wrote Kerry's bio about his time in the Nam?
If so, it explains a lot.
Hunter Thompson is to journalism as Paris Hilton is to acting
The guy asked to be shot from a cannon. The wife and son start asking around for a fireworks display. The owner is considering a mortar.
I'm sorry but doesn't anyone know what a cannon is?
Here's the solution: contact a Civil War reenactment group. Haul their cannon to the local gun range. Load his ashes into the muzzle and fire away. Shooters who don't necessarily like good old Hunter can brag they shoot into his ashes for years to come just by shooting into the berm.
Figgers. It just figgers. "Historian," eh? It's funny, whenever a conservative gets in a little trouble, any subsequent mention of his name is followed by a parenthetical mention of the scandal. But I guess Brinkley is back to being a "historian."