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(Hunter Thompson) All Gone Now
Fred On Everything ^
| February 26, 2005
| Fred Reed
Posted on 02/26/2005 9:53:47 AM PST by BraveMan
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Continuing with the "All Thompson, All The Time" theme this week on FR, here is yet another article. Love 'em or hate 'em, Fred has a unique way of interpreting the view through the looking glass.
Apologies if this has been previously posted; I looked & looked (still don't believe it hasn't already been posted . . .)
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posted on
02/26/2005 9:53:48 AM PST
by
BraveMan
To: BraveMan
"When it was over, everybody went into a law firm."
So that explains it.
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posted on
02/26/2005 9:56:01 AM PST
by
jocon307
(Vote George Washington for the #1 spot)
To: BraveMan
Pfft! I could replace HST in a trigger-click. Just send me an eyedropper full of pure LSD, 40 cases of cheap beer, and a copy of the latest Maureen Dowd column so I'd have something to get pissed off about and send me on some wild tangent that ends up who-knows-where. My first column will be called "Fear and Loathing in _____________ ". (I'll fill in the blank around hour 16.)
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posted on
02/26/2005 9:59:22 AM PST
by
thoughtomator
(If Islam is a religion, so is Liberal!)
To: BraveMan
..Nixon is back in the White House, Rumsnamara risen from the dead, bombs falling on other peoples suburbs. The Pentagon is lying again and democracy stalks yet another helpless country. This time the young are already dead and there will be no joyous anarchy. The press, housebroken, pees where it is told...
You are a brave man to post this junk here.
If Fred thinks the kids (including my sons) are dead because they are not long-haired bums, he has been 'off the beaten track' a little too long. Sit back down, Fred.
Oh, and Fred? .. kiss my @$$.
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posted on
02/26/2005 10:03:05 AM PST
by
MrNatural
(..".You want the truth?!"...)
To: BraveMan
There was only one Hunter Thompson.Sure. But there are a gonzillion nut cases well-qualified to take his place.
To: Fester Chugabrew
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posted on
02/26/2005 10:08:56 AM PST
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR)
To: BraveMan
Every time I feel nostalgic about the '60s I remember that the "Cultural Revolution" of sex,drugs and rock&roll was engineered in Soviet think tanks with the express purpose of cutting-short out best and brightest youth. Soviet agents funded and organized this "new" marxist symphony on campuses and in the various media outlets to achieve the desired effect. Social(ist) change was inevitable.
I saw what we were and what we had become after the intervention of "great minds" to misuse social change.
I won't miss gonzo or his ilk. I just hate dealing with the droppings they've left behind.
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posted on
02/26/2005 10:11:19 AM PST
by
martian_22
(Who tells you what you are?)
To: BraveMan
In the three-TV-channel world of the 60's, HST took a mundane event, mixed in personal absurdity, a grain of truth, and a lot of opinion and called it "gonzo journalism."
Today we call it "reality TV", celebrity poker, CBS's RaTHergate, The Daily Show, talk radio and 'bloggers.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
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posted on
02/26/2005 10:16:17 AM PST
by
anonymous_user
(Not everything's a conspiracy.)
To: BraveMan
The day we bury the last decrepid flower child will be the day the air gets fresher in America. What a pampered bunch of weirdos, coddled by their clueless parents and never asked to grow up! Drugs made them feel important, and obviously caused the brain damage that still makes them feel that way.
To: BraveMan
When Thompson blew his brains out, a door closed somewhere and you could hear the latch click.
And sane people everywhere gave a sigh of relief!
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posted on
02/26/2005 10:21:50 AM PST
by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: BraveMan
This pap, written by "Fred", has the same consistancy, texture, and importance as anything written by any mad man.
Hunter Thompson, for example.
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posted on
02/26/2005 10:23:24 AM PST
by
G.Mason
("If you are broken It is because you are brittle" ... K.Hepburn, The Lion In Winter)
To: kittymyrib
I agree, I think he realized that the remnants of the Beat generation, and I think he belonged there more than in the flower child /hippy category, were all dead and gone. Since most had gone out in a tantrum, he followed suit.
The realization that the children had lost and the adults were again taking charge of the culture was just too much.
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posted on
02/26/2005 10:27:06 AM PST
by
tertiary01
(Believe your eyes and heart before some stupid tests.)
To: BraveMan
Fred has a unique way of interpreting the view through the looking glass. Only because Fred's view, the looking glass a his head are all up his ass! Funny how Nixon is in the White house, but it was Johnson that started the war. Democraps get the pass, while Republicans have to clean up their dogs mess in our lawn!
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posted on
02/26/2005 10:30:18 AM PST
by
Bommer
(JFK - "Pay any Cost! Bear any Burden" TFK "I'll pay what you want and bare my @ss!")
To: MrNatural
LOL! Please remember, posting an article does not necessarily constitute agreement/acquiescence of same . . .
I think the best validation one can make of HST is through his own example; what he was and what he became.
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posted on
02/26/2005 10:35:02 AM PST
by
BraveMan
To: BraveMan
There was only one Hunter Thompson.And for that, we're all grateful.
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posted on
02/26/2005 10:38:51 AM PST
by
GOP_Raider
(With a QB named Kerry, is it any wonder the Raiders finished 5-11 this year?)
To: BraveMan
To: BraveMan
I love Some of HST writing, Hells Angels, F&L Las Vegas, and F&L 72.
But he was a self-indulgent baby-boomer who had good luck to be born at the right time. He was too old for Vietnam, too young for Korea and WWII. The economy and housing prices allowed him (and fellow boomers) to spend the 60's and 70's taking drugs and having fun.
In the 80's reality set in, and HST couldn't do anything except rewrite the same old nonsense.
Physically he died last week, but his writing ability and politics died of old age 25 years ago
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posted on
02/26/2005 10:41:29 AM PST
by
rcocean
To: BraveMan
I love Some of HST writing, Hells Angels, F&L Las Vegas, and F&L 72.
But he was a self-indulgent baby-boomer who had good luck to be born at the right time. He was too old for Vietnam, too young for Korea and WWII. The economy and housing prices allowed him (and fellow boomers) to spend the 60's and 70's taking drugs and having fun.
In the 80's reality set in, and HST couldn't do anything except rewrite the same old nonsense.
Physically he died last week, but his writing ability and politics died of old age 25 years ago
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posted on
02/26/2005 10:41:50 AM PST
by
rcocean
To: BraveMan
A murky sun hung in an aluminum sky like a fried egg waiting to fall and mesquite bushes pocked the dry sand with blue mortar bursts.Just one example of the terribly bad writing in this article, which I suspect was on purpose by Fred. I don't know if he was joking or not.
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
02/26/2005 10:42:40 AM PST
by
nothingnew
(There are two kinds of people; Decent and indecent.)
To: BraveMan
A recent WSJ piece by Tom Wolfe praised this self absorbed lunatic, proving once again that even great writers sometimes slip on the ice of reality.
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