"KABOOM! The only pre-sweetened breakfast cereal made with real crunchy bits of Hunter S. Thompson -- !"
Good Lord, what a flake. :)
Posted on 04/05/2005 10:37:44 PM PDT by Hi Heels
Thompson Ashes Said to Be Shot From Cannon
Tue Apr 5, 2:41 PM ET U.S. National - AP
By DAN ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer
DENVER - Hunter S. Thompson's ashes will be blasted from a cannon mounted inside a 53-foot-high sculpture of the journalist's "gonzo fist" emblem, his wife said Tuesday.
The cannon shot, planned sometime in August on the grounds of his Aspen-area home, will fulfill the writer's long-cherished wish.
"It's expensive, but worth every penny," Anita Thompson said. "I'd like to have several explosions. He loved explosions."
Thompson, 67, shot himself in the head on Feb. 20 after a long and flamboyant career that produced such new journalism classics as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and cast his image as a hard-charging, drug-crazed daredevil.
The cannon shot will be part of a larger public celebration of Thompson's life. Some details remain to be worked out, including the exact date, what kind of cannon will be used and the specifics of the gonzo fist, Anita Thompson said.
She said the gonzo fist will be mounted on a 100-foot pillar, making the monument 153 feet high. It will resemble Thompson's personal symbol, a fist on an upthrust forearm, sometimes with "Gonzo" emblazoned across it.
Anita Thompson has said the monument will be a permanent fixture on the writer's 100-acre property.
She said planning for the fist has been guided by a video of Thompson and longtime illustrator-collaborator Ralph Steadman, recorded in the late 1970s when they visited a Hollywood funeral home and began mapping out the cannon scheme.
Meanwhile, Playboy magazine this week is publishing an interview with Thompson based on a series of conversations he had with magazine staffer Tim Mohr in December.
In the interview, Thompson discusses a range of topics from political freedom to the best kind of snow tires to buy but offers no obvious hints of his impending suicide.
"He was really enthusiastic and full of energy," Mohr told The Associated Press on Monday. Thompson even talked about embarking on a long-term project to expand the Playboy piece into a book, "a guide to life, sort of a handbook," Mohr said.
The interview appears in the magazine's May issue, which its newsstands Friday.
He killed himself on my birthday?
And I thought I had a bad day...
Why don't they stuff him and hang him on a lamp post near the Las Vegas strip?
God. What a weird guy.
Whole new meaning to blown to smithereens. For some reason I have Wiley Coyote on my mind.
"KABOOM! The only pre-sweetened breakfast cereal made with real crunchy bits of Hunter S. Thompson -- !"
Good Lord, what a flake. :)
I'm trying to clean up what my bf said, when I read this to him.
He should be blown out of a phallic symbol. That's basically it, but the way he said it was too funny ;)
"I'd like to have several explosions. He loved explosions."
Thompson, 67, shot himself in the head on Feb. 20
This is an unfortunate combination of sentences.
The ultimate explosion.
How utterly uninteresting.
If you hurry, Ren and Stimpy might be on.
Thompson, 67, shot himself in the head on Feb. 20 after a long and flamboyant career
A question that we'll never get the answer to: Did he hear that last explosion?
So were Quaker puffed rice.
'specially that last one, eh, Anita?
She said the gonzo fist will be mounted on a 100-foot pillar, making the monument 153 feet high.
Sounds like they were all high when they dreamed this one up.
When they fire the cannon, I bet the 53-foot fist will fly backward off the 100-foot pillar and scatter Thompson's ashes over the assembled guests. Those it doesn't crush, anyway.
I have no idea who they are but if they're not Thompson or some other alcoholic I might appreciate them.
PS: Education helps.
"He blowed up real good."
PS: A sense of humor helps.
PSS:
Aren't you special.
A sense of humor helps.
Agreed. But people like Thompson are like circus clowns. Juveniles find them funny, adults find them boring.
Jaqueline Onassis to Charles de Gaulle: "Which of all the world leaders you met had the best sense of humor?"
DeGaulle: "Joseph Stalin."
Now, that's funny.
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