The son of Hunter S. Thompson says the author shot himself to death at his Aspen-area home.

[Arkinsaw]

Settle down, folks. Enough.

I'm satisfied.

[rcocean]

I'll have to give that a read.

I stopped reading him in the 80's, his attacks on Nixon and Humphrey seemed pretty funny to me.

His attacks on Reagan were unfunny. Al Franken unfunny. I stopped reading him after that. Like a lot of people. Maybe the drugs and hi living caught up with him.

Anyway, I'm sorry his gone, but if others want to dis him, thats OK with me, he did the same thing to any number of people.

[anton]

Gun control legislation would have prevented this tragic event (not!).

[Arkinsaw]

The doctor is looking down from somewhere and demanding they turn the heat up. The doctor probably would want them to be a bit more imaginative, but harsh raw invective would suffice.

It's too late for a bottle of Crown Royal and I don't do Adenochrome or Ether so my invective would be rather pale. Especially in comparison. I don't engage in this stuff very often, but I can't think of a better thread for my rare foray.

[Arkinsaw]

Please, children... let's stop throwing the mudpies and go inside and wash up. The personal attacks got old a long time ago. Could you both just ignore each other and call it a night, please?

Yes ma'am.

[freedom44]

You're right he that he sort of swayed - but he wasn't an ardent leftist. He criticized the left several times and was a strong supporter of the 2nd amendment.

[orangelobster]

"It's too late for a bottle of Crown Royal and I don't do Adenochrome or Ether so my invective would be rather pale. "

Yeah, I think people like hunter because he was the best at writing savage obituary troll invective. I agree with this poster above that the al frankens, howard sterns and others of the invective genre are unfunny lightweights. I did look at the cad's link to the DU website and their invective is just childish namecalling. Hunter was the last master of meanspirited savage invective. Time to move on to a new style.

[HTuttle]

I'm confused, wasn't he pretty much a poster boy for acting out of defined contextual borders?

[A Jovial Cad]

Just can't let it alone, can you? Couldn't just let it fade, chalk it up to you & I disagreeing about the utilitarian value of one virulently leftist writer's relative contribution to the world he recently, and by his own hand, departed, and walk away, could you? And all of that based on one throwaway comment I made to some early-on poster about a man whom considered, based on his stated positions in his writings, conservatives to be the American equivalent of fascists...

For the record: I find nothing "ghoulish" or "obituary trolling" about pointing out the facts of a celebrated career leftist's writing career on the day of his demise on a conservative forum. It wasn't "obituary trolling" I was engaged in: it was pointing out the truth of the man's written career, while such as you virtually broke out the hankies--and got nasty with those whom refused to weep.

Don't like dealing with that? Well, then I've got the tailor-made solution for you, "Arkinsaw": don't reply to A Jovial Cad's posts.

QED.

(I'll translate that for you, if you'd like...snicker...)

[A Jovial Cad]

Anyway, I'm sorry his gone, but if others want to dis him, thats OK with me, he did the same thing to any number of people

Which has been my point exactly, all along...besides, Hunter Thompson himself would've loved it.

[orangelobster]

"I'm confused, wasn't he pretty much a poster boy for acting out of defined contextual borders?"

In literary terms I would describe him as a descendent of Rabelais. He was just funny. The later sport columns were pale imitations of his earlier work.

[Arkinsaw]

Yeah, I think people like hunter because he was the best at writing savage obituary troll invective. I agree with this poster above that the al frankens, howard sterns and others of the invective genre are unfunny lightweights. I did look at the cad's link to the DU website and their invective is just childish namecalling. Hunter was the last master of meanspirited savage invective. Time to move on to a new style.

The only writer I have ever seen come close is Harlan Ellison. Ellison is better at a lot of stuff, and his mean-spirited invective can be top notch, but its still not on par with Thompson.

[Arkinsaw]

Settle down, folks. Enough.

There you go. Last shot fired and I refrain.

[A Jovial Cad]

It would be more honest if you didn't try to carry the resentment you no doubt feel for the drubbing I gave you in another thread over to this one, and in a cowardly back-door way, at that....

[JLS]

Kerouac nihilistic? Please explain...
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I was not an Lit major or anything, but what I remember of "On the Road" was Kerouac valuing his pleasure over anything. Trash someone else's car driving across the country, so what me worry, seemed to be the attitude. Thompson on the other hand seemed to know that the armed robbery he induldged in as a youth was wrong. He seemed to know that the Hell's Angels he wrote about were bad guys, if it interesting partly because they were dangerous.

Again it was many years ago. It was pleasure reading. Actually in Kerouac's case it was boring reading to see what everyone was a buzz about. I did not read it to study, so I was just adding impressions about the writings of someone who died today.

[reagandemocrat]

Maybe Trudeau will have Duke off hisself.

[A Jovial Cad]

Admirable restraint, given the heated circumstances of our back and forth in this thread.

I'm willing to bet that we probably agree on far more than we disagree, at the end of the day.

Peace.

[Cindy]

I've never heard of this guy Hal.

[Arkinsaw]

Sure will miss the outrageous and antagonistic scoundrel.

Well, I will be a little bit surprised if we don't hear one more crazy blast out of him. No telling what he left in his typewriter as a parting gift. Whatever it is, if anything, it will probably something completely over the top designed to stir us all up to cuss him out one more time.