[wingblade]

...like frogs in a dynamite pond.

[Izzy Dunne]

a popular reputation as a wild-living, hard-drinking, LSD-crazed writer bent on self-destruction.

Sure took him a long time.

[Fintan]

 

[MadIvan]

I've never read Thompson, but I am grateful for one thing from him - it is clear that P.J. O'Rourke regards him as an influence on his writing.

Regards, Ivan

[dennisw]

An drug addled idiot but an entertaining one. I never spent a dime on his books.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

I read his stuff in the 70's, but I grew up, and his later stuff was mildy funny. His grip on reality was not what it should have been.

I expected this, whenever I thought about it, for a long time. He loved likker,drugs and guns.

Gimme Back My Bullets
Gimme Back My Bullets
(Allen Collins -- Ronnie VanZant)

Life is so strange when its changin', yes indeed
Well I've seen the hard times and the pressure's been on me
But I keep on workin' like the workin' man do
And I've got my act together, gonna walk all over you

(chorus)
Gimme back my bullets
Put 'em back where they belong
Ain't foolin' around 'cause I done had my fun
Ain't gonna see no more damage done
Gimme back my bullets

Sweet talkin' people done ran me out of town
And I drank enough whiskey to float a battleship around
But I'm leavin' this game one step ahead of you
And you will not hear me cry 'cause I do not sing the blues

(chorus)
Gimme back my bullets
Put 'em back where they belong
Ain't foolin' around 'cause I done had my fun
Ain't gonna see no more damage done
Gimme back, gimme back my bullets
Oh, put 'em back... where they belong

Been up and down since I turned seventeen
Well I've been on top, and then it seems I lost my dream
But I got it back, I'm feelin' better everyday
Tell all those pencil pushers, better get out of my way

(chorus)
Gimme back my bullets
Put 'em back where they belong
Ain't foolin' around, 'cause I done had my fun
Ain't gonna see no more damage done
Gimme back, gimme back my bullets
Oh put 'em back where they belong
Gimme back my bullets

[bikepacker67]

I wonder if, perhaps, a medical diagnosis of some terminal malady urged ol' Hunt to eat a bullet...

He seemed too much a cranky cynic to take his life because of depression. But a pragmatic choice in the face of incurable lung-cancer sounds about right.

[wingblade]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1992213#

possibly his last published

doesn't sound very unlike himself here...

[dyed_in_the_wool]

Dupe.

Search is your friend.

[Pelayo]

I guess now he is headed to "Bat-country," maybe?

[flair2000]

This guy couldn't handle but one year in the Air Force, as a sports reporter, and in Florida no less. What a loser.

[geedee]

"Legendary US author and sharp-witted icon of the 1960s counter-culture . . ."

Legendary? Hmmmmm . . .

Legendary according to American Heritage . . .
Celebrated in legend.
Extremely well known; famous or renowned.

Yeah, well maybe in the LSD crowd but I suspect MOST Americans have never heard of the guy . . . but it makes for a better story.

[StoneColdTaxHater]

Who Cares?

[BenLurkin]