“Did they ever shoot that burned out rummy’s ashes out of a cannon?”
An excellent description. Back in thr late ‘60s, early ‘70s, I thought he was so cool.
I grew up; he didn’t.
“His ashes were fired from a 150 ft tower topped by a red fist with two thumbs - the symbol of Thompson’s free-wheeling, first-person gonzo journalism.
Johnny Depp, who played Thompson in the film of his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, paid for the cannon.”
Hey, thanks!
>An excellent description. Back in the late ‘60s, early ‘70s, I thought he was so cool.
So did I. So did I.
I even bought his book “Hell’s Angels” back in the late 60s when I was in HS.
I figured that it was alcohol and pills/drugs that contributed to his demise. A shame.