"his work will be forgotten."
Probably rite.
"Ask almost anyone today about Hunter Thompson and he will have no idea who you are talking about."
Like me. Who is this guy they keep mentioning every day since, on some news outlet? I don't even know what the !%#@ "Gonzo" is.....
But wait, all the coffeehouse folks are mourning him! That means he was important, right? /sarc
Ouch.
Hunter Thompson shot himself in the head sometime on Saturday and a few things are certain. He was either stoned or hung over, and his work will be forgotten.I still suspect there was some sort of terminal and/or painful illness involved. Eating a shotgun doesn't seem his style, unless that was the case. In which case it totally seems like something he would do.
You can say a lot of things about the guy, and his politics sucked for sure except where guns (possibly the most important issue) were involved. But you couldn't call him fake.
-Eric
He was plenty talented. Just because you don't like his message doesn't take that away. Being talented has no moral value unless you put your talent to good works; I'm not claiming that. But the talent was there.
I remember.
Isn't it odd that this post is from 45Auto? Hunter would have appreciated that.
Everything you've ever heard about him is probably true.
Rest in peace HST.
Didn't have a new act.....
My Momma always said if you dont have something good to say about a person , dont say anything. No Comment.
Good confession column! ;^)
Can't even get the quote right, it's "when the going gets wierd, the wierd turn pro". And the fine folks at Modern Library think he'll be remembered.
You just knew that Hunter was really crazy - all of the time. The booze, the dope, the guns and exceedingly strange outlook on the world. But still...but still there was something endearing about him. I can't quite figure what it was, but his writing sure made college a lot more interesting than it would have been otherwise.
He was a man who made positively no apparent sense in his writing - except to tell us that life was a bizarre and uncanny thing that could truly bite in you in the butt when you least expected it.
I hope God enjoys Hunter a lot.
PS: Do you think there's good scotch in Heaven?
Who is Austin Ruse?
I'm 51. When I first heard of his suicide, my thoughts were that the name sounded familiar.
That was about it.
So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we may not be reminded how inconsistent your deeds are with it; for all odor is but one form of advertisement of a moral quality, and if fair actions had not been performed, the lily would not smell sweet. The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'm one of the few people of my generation who know who Hunter S. Thompson is. While I find his life fascinating, I wish more people knew about it. He was a wildly talented guy who took a flamethrower to his own mind and burned it to a crisp. In the end, he proved himself wrong on everything he ever espoused, and I think 'attention should be paid' to the wages of his particular sins. His life is a case study of the long, downward spiral, but a brilliant one.