(Hunter)Thompson's Ashes May Be Shot From Cannon

iWon News ^ | February 23, 2005 | DAN ELLIOTT

[Arkinsaw]

Well, I do.

You are not comforming. Shame on you.

[yooper]

I've spent my whole life not conforming. Hunter S. Thompson was a major factor in that. Hence my defence of the man.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Amen brother!

Speaking truth to power!

(As your attorney, I advise you to drink heavily!)

[yooper]

"(As your attorney, I advise you to drink heavily!)"

Gin and tonic in hand, sir! But not heavily (it's Wednesday night after all).

Rest in pieces Gonzo!

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Bourbon and water, my friend.

I am an attorney, but I'm just not that big damn Samoan.

[yooper]

"MacArthur, I'm a reasonable man, so I know this isn't snow."

"Pay it no mind, sir. It never sticks."

I need to add another aside question here: How many here have made disparaging remarks about Thompson based on what they've read over the years in "Doonesbury"?

Anyone want to fess up to that?

[spinestein]

His ashes being shot out of a cannon is a great final piece of performance art, but in the true contemptuous Hunter Thompson tradition they should be dipped in a jar of urine and smeared with elephant dung first. I think he would have liked it that way.

[aculeus]

His Boston lawyer George Tobia Jr told the Globe the 67-year-old author sat in his kitchen Sunday afternoon in his home in Woody Creek, Colo., stuck a .45-caliber handgun in his mouth, and killed himself while his wife listened on the phone and his son and daughter-in-law were in another room of his house. His wife had no idea what had happened until she returned home later.

Some dignity.

Source http://www.counterpunch.org/

[battlegearboat]

It should be done in Las Vegas.

[Roccus]

For some reason I never read him. Don't even remember hearing his name. What works would you suggest I read?

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

"It's a strange world...Who knows? If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix... Heaven is a bit harder to figure - and there are some things that not even a smart boy can tell you for sure. But, I can guess. Or wonder... Or maybe this is all pure gibberish - a product of the demented imagination of a drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found out a way to live out there where the real wind blows - to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested... Res Ipsa Loquitor. Let the Good Times Roll." HST - Generation of Swine

I guess you know the answer now Hunter. Rest in Peace you freak. You were one of a kind!

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail `72
Generation of Swine
The Great Shark Hunt
The Curse of Lono
Hells Angels

I recommend all of them very highly.

[Roccus]

Thanks, I'll give a couple of them a try.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

I read "Fear abd Loathing in Las Vegas" in one sitting. My law schoo, roomate handed me his copy and told me I might enjoy it. I was hooked by the first paragraph. Side splittingly funny stuff in there.

[Calvin Locke]

...to make a total ASH of himself.

Why not?

ASH in USENET speak is alt.suicide.holiday.

[patso]

Hunter Thompson was a very talented, albeit limited writer. His novels were dreadful.Hell's angels was excellent, The letters and essays he wrote early in his career are excellent.His works as a miltiary sportswriter without any training were excellent.His South American journalism and letters to William Kennedy are brilliant.His early, anger driven correspondence about the shortcomings of the "USA and its rotarians" is also brilliant. If he did not seek to become a self created cult figure I think he would have thrived.His biggest downfall was recognition by the talentless and mean-spirited Gary Trudeau.

[spinestein]

[How many here have made disparaging remarks about Thompson based on what they've read over the years in "Doonesbury"?]


I confess that I didn't even know who Hunter Thompson was until after he died, and the only thing I know about him now is what I've read in articles written by other journalists praising him for his unorthodox writing and his "new journalism" style. The details of their praise leads me to believe that he was an extreme "free love" hippie who had a venomous contempt for people on the right.

My own observation is that he died with a venomous contempt for his own life.

Apparently, "Doonesbury" contains a character based on him but I couldn't name him, or any other character in that strip. Really, I haven't found much worthwhile to read in comics since "Calvin and Hobbes" and "The Far Side" went away (except sometimes "Dilbert" and "Foxtrot"). I couldn't care less about crap like "Doonesbury" which I sampled a few times years ago and instantly hated.

[kms61]

For my money Hell's Angels was his best work.