Posted on 08/20/2005 6:37:45 AM PDT by Liberty Valance
Firework Farewell Set for 'Gonzo' Thompson
DENVER Co. - Firework shells carrying the sealed ashes of "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson arrived in an armored truck at his mountain home as final preparations were being made for his star-studded farewell.
The shells were scheduled to be launched Saturday night from a 150- foot-tall monument erected behind Thompson's house in Woody Creek, just outside Aspen. The event will be private, open to about 250 invited guests including Thompson's longtime illustrator, Ralph Steadman, and actors Sean Penn and Johnny Depp.
"We haven't noticed a lot of curiosity seekers or pilgrims, but the buzz and the excitement is increasing every hour," family spokesman Matt Moseley said Friday. "People are coming into town, people invited to the event, and I've been getting calls from fans who'll say things like 'I'm coming in from Wisconsin with a case of Chivas.'"
The scotch whiskey was a favorite of Thompson's.
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My Gawd...even Saddam never had a weapon that horrible!
Is Franco still dead?
From the Great Shark Hunt...by Hunter S. Thompson...
(I think the drugs must have completely taken over by then)
;o)
"The logic was hard to deny. A McGovern/Kennedy ticket was probably the only sure winner for the democrats this year, but beyond that it might solve all Kennedy's problems with one stroke. It would give him at least four and probably eight years in the spotlight; an unnaturally powerful and popular vice-president with all the advantages of the office and very few of the risks. If NcGovern ran wild and called for the abolition of free enterprise, for instance, Kennedy could back off and shake his head sadly...but if McGovern did everything right and won a second term as the most revered and successful President in the nation's history, Teddy would be right there beside him - the other half of the team; so clearly the heir apparent that he would hardly have to bother about campaigning in public in 1980."
Dream on Hunter.
PILGRIMS...???
Holy cr@p, Batman. Who do these people think this guy is?
bump
yup , I've arranged for Helen Thomas to get a ride up to Woody Creek ,... Toonces The Driving Cat will be taking her
...Pathetic...truly pathetic...
Hunter Tompson was was nothing
more than a spastic brain destroyed paranoid
sideshow freak, of relevance to only the gullible
drug addicts and self appointed faux leftist
"illuminati"!
;oP
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