Hunter S Thompson commits suicide

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― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 21 February 2005 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20050221/ap_on_re_us/obit_thompson

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 21 February 2005 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 21 February 2005 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of journalism in books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67.
"Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family," Juan Thompson said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News.

Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis, a personal friend of Thompson, confirmed the death to the News. Sheriff's officials did not return calls to The Associated Press late Sunday.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 21 February 2005 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

WHOA WTF

― Un investigador del siglo XXI (AaronHz), Monday, 21 February 2005 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Far out.

― kate/papa november (papa november), Monday, 21 February 2005 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i am not surprised. he's always been very much the political is personal and he's basically been saying pretty clearly that everything's going to shit for a couple of years now. is there some football angle i'm missing?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 21 February 2005 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

As unshocked as I guess I should be, all things considered, I'm still shocked. All the cartoonishness and buffoonishness and decline into self-parody aside, he was a totally fucking great writer. Goddamn.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 21 February 2005 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Phew. :-(

(...is it weird that I immediately think of Doonesbury?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 February 2005 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Goodbye, you magnificent, amazing bastard! I spent the best half of a decade trying to emulate you.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Monday, 21 February 2005 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

you fuck! you dumbfuck! you have better left a good suicide note! grr!

― charleston charge (chaki), Monday, 21 February 2005 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice one Hemingway

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Monday, 21 February 2005 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

"Four more years of George Bush will be like four more years of syphilis," the famed author said yesterday at a hastily called press conference near his home in Woody Creek, Colorado."

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 21 February 2005 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

wow... this is really surprising and very sad.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 21 February 2005 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

FUCK

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Monday, 21 February 2005 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Miserable news. This is a voice we'e going to miss dearly.

― briania (briania), Monday, 21 February 2005 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i blame this on bush...i am so angry right now. last night i was reading his espn columns and they were good fuck condi fuck ashcroftfuck bush, fuck the 51 per cent of america who cant look past their assholes. fuck the whole circus...

being honest and being earnest will kill you dead.

― anthony, Monday, 21 February 2005 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I find it hard to believe HST would take his own life now, after everything he's seen and railed against and been through. Dammit.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 21 February 2005 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

yup.

downright fucking depressing.

to make it that long, to put up with all the bullshit for so long, and then to give out...

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 21 February 2005 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

So.....ya think Rolling Stone will put him on their next cover or just have a little blurb on the side of some pseudo-hot celeb cover?

― Un investigador del siglo XXI (AaronHz), Monday, 21 February 2005 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

yes i blame this on bush

but i also blame it on hst. he was always a briliant analyst and reporter, but always retreated into his own world when done observing. saw very clearly the need to fight but never did.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 21 February 2005 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

is reporting was his fighting, his yell in the wilderness did more good then anything else he could have done.

― anthony, Monday, 21 February 2005 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't blame it on anybody. I mean, I'm not mad at anyone about it. Sad, but not angry. Sometimes that's just the way it goes, you know? I'm sure there are personal aspects to it that we might not ever really know, but I'm guessing he was tired of a lot of things and he went out like he wanted to.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 21 February 2005 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not saying that he should have done something in particular that was different.

i'm saying that as smart a voice he was, all he was, because of his style, was a voice in the wilderness. he might have had a greater impact if he had written differently.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 21 February 2005 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Vice is more likely to put him on their cover than Rolling Stone.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 21 February 2005 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck you gabneb--the fake bullshit of the new york times, the copaialist lube job of time--the assumption that people cannot be angry and exhausted and viscious at things tht were exhausting and evil--w. main stream media afraid of any balls they maight have we have things like blair and gannon.

and he wrote traditonally alot of the time, he got qoutes, he did his research, he contructed arguements in a really explicit way--look at 72.

langauge needs to be invented for each circumstance

― anthony, Monday, 21 February 2005 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

If Thompson had "written differently" I suspect he would have had no impact at all.

I have a hard time 'blaming' Dubya, the man lived through six years of Nixon, 12 years of Reagan-Bush and four more of Bush II - something else was going on.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

aw fuck

― David A. (Davant), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean: aw fuck i feel so fuckin tired

― David A. (Davant), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not blaming his lack of contemporary impact on 'gonzo journalism' as typified in the early books (when it was quite appropriate to the age). yes, of course that is how he became known. but he didn't adjust his megaphone as the times changed. what impact are you going to have in 2004 as a holed-up crackpot-type with an espn column ("espn column"?). the only people who are going to hear what you have to say are the small minority that will seek you out and sift through your material sufficiently to discern the message.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Hunter's 'voice in the wilderness' gave him a greater impact than most journalists could expect to have. Writing in the way that he did meant that he was never be confined by the normal constraints of journalism, and that made his voice all the more loud, all the more clear, and all the more effective. His style allowed him much more freedom to express a dissenting view, something that many journalists didn't get.

I miss him already.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

right. in 1972.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:14 (twenty-one years ago)

he gave us xgau and bangs in music, the editors of coluga in art, and in politics at first he gave us ramparts, and then reason and z, later he would give us duke and spider in comic; but he gave us blogs and zines and punk rock fury, he gave the reader a power to work thru there anger... (and i bet most professional or semi professional writers on ilx--ethan, matos, sinker, even momus) get something deep from him.
and millions read his work on espn two--it says something when you have such a visercal disdain for new media

― anthony, Monday, 21 February 2005 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus, gabb. Guy is dead, ok? show some humanity. Writing in a serene, objective, easily digestible form for a mass audience is all well and good, but don't we have enough people doing that, that we can't spare a little room for HST to be himself?

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
Hunter S. Thompson

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:30 (twenty-one years ago)

DAMN.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

(tear)

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone know how old he actually was? I'm seeing both 65 and 67 in the news stories. Not that it particularly matters.

His impact was huge. And not all good, obviously, because everybody (including him, eventually) focused more on the "gonzo" than the "journalism." But jesus, if you read his evolution as a writer, from his pretty staid and conventional early pieces through to the early '70s, there's just this amazing liberation that happens there, he broke free, in a way that sort of epitomized and embodied things about that era. And then of course he was confronted with the same question that haunted everybody else: what next? He didn't know, never really figured it out. But goddamn he loved his freedom. And he loved it with a ferocious intelligence, what a fucking brain that guy had when he didn't fuck with it too much and let it do its thing.

He made things seem possible that didn't seem possible before him. His later life -- and now, this -- also mark the limits of possibilities. But just because he didn't change the world doesn't mean he didn't change the world.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/HSTbyAlanArpadi.jpg

― Remy (wearing black) (x Jeremy), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:48 (twenty-one years ago)

yesterday, the ny post reports that howard stern is under investigation for "insider trading." and now, this. not a good weekend :-(

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Like Spalding Gray, a voice lost to an inner voice that said "Goodbye.".

― aimurchie, Monday, 21 February 2005 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Be Angry At The Sun

by Robinson Jeffers

That public men publish falsehoods
Is nothing new. That America must accept
Like the historical republics corruption and empire
Has been known for years. Be angry at the sun for setting
If these things anger you. Watch the wheel slope and turn,
They are all bound on the wheel, these people, those warriors.
This republic, Europe, Asia. Observe them gesticulating,
Observe them going down. The gang serves lies, the passionate
Man plays his part; the cold passion for truth
Hunts in no pack. You are not Catullus, you know,
To lampoon these crude sketches of Caesar. You are far
From Dante's feet, but even farther from his dirty
Political hatreds.Let boys want pleasure, and men
Struggle for power, and women perhaps for fame,
And the servile to serve a Leader and the dupes to be duped.
Yours is not theirs.

― nonthings (nonthings), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it---that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world tries to make us uncomfortable.
The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes and all his imprecise talk about 'new politics' and 'honesty in government' is one of the few men who've run for President of the United States in this century who really understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon.
McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose, as a matter of policy and a perfect expression of everything he stands for.
Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be president?"

HST---Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

― nonthings (nonthings), Monday, 21 February 2005 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Bugger.

I blame Bush and the modern syphilitic kowtowing media.

One of the best journalists i've read and writer of the best political account I can think (Fear and loathing ... '72)

― Ed (dali), Monday, 21 February 2005 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The author's note at the beginning of The Great Shark Hunt fixates on suicide.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 21 February 2005 07:07 (twenty-one years ago)

nonthings otm. rip.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 21 February 2005 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

it seems like this is a particularly bade few years for a whole generation.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 21 February 2005 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

It seems to me that that whole generation is no longer the same generation that they were when they were "that generation."

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 21 February 2005 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i read and reread "proud highway" when i was in college, i loved that early writing of his so much - rip

― dave k, Monday, 21 February 2005 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 21 February 2005 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

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A little bird told me HST will grace the cover of Rolling Stone.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Steadman drawing or a photo, I wonder.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Good question (I didn't ask). Stedman drawing would be better.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 28 February 2005 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Johnny Depp is wearing a small Gonzo fist tie clip at the Academy Awards tonight. I'm almost hoping he wins best actor just to hear his shout out to the Doc.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Monday, 28 February 2005 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I was too.

― Huk-L, Monday, 28 February 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Upon reflection, the timing of his passing makes a certain sense -- he wouldn't have wanted to do this while the football season was going, he'd never have learned who won the Super Bowl that year.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 February 2005 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure that figured into it.

― Huk-L, Monday, 28 February 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Hunter S. Thompson found in front of typewriter; word “counselor” on page
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Hunter S. Thompson’s body was found in a chair in the kitchen in front of his typewriter with the word “counselor” typed in the centre of the page, according to sheriff’s reports.
The word was typed on stationery from the Fourth Amendment Foundation, which was started to defend victims of unwarranted search and seizure, according to reports released Tuesday.
It was not immediately known what, if any, significance the word had to the founder of “gonzo” journalism or to his family.
Juan Thompson found his father dead on Feb. 20 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. After reporting the death, Juan Thompson walked outside the Woody Creek home and fired three shotgun blasts into the air.
“Juan told me he had shot a shotgun into the air to mark the passing of his father,” Pitkin County Deputy Sheriff John Armstrong said in his report.
Juan Thompson was allowed to go into the kitchen alone to drape a golden orange scarf over his father’s shoulders, according to Armstrong. Jennifer Winkel Thompson, Juan Thompson’s wife, said the family had purchased the silk scarf in Florence, Italy, and gave it to Hunter Thompson the night before.
The couple and their six-year-old son were in the house when Thompson, 67, took a handgun, put it to his mouth and fired.
A soft-sided gun case was found at Thompson’s feet along with a spent shell casing, according to reports.
The family has canceled plans for a public gathering in favour of a private service. A public event will be held at a later date. Plans also are in the works to blast Thompson’s ashes from a cannon, which was one of the author’s wishes.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

This just keeps getting weirder and weirder...it's so damned fitting.

The "counselor" phrase could have had many meanings (the sarcastic one is my hope), or none at all.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

HST Cannon Blast-Off Contest under way
Lynn Burton/Aspen Daily News Staff Writer

The rules are simple.

In 100 words or less, "Why should your cannon be used to blast Dr. Hunter S. Thompson's cremated remains into the sky?"

The Aspen Daily News will forward the essays to the family of the late gonzo journalist, who will give them "serious consideration," said Aspen Daily News Associate Editor Troy Hooper.

"We're talking 100 words, not 101," Hooper said on Saturday. "And snail mail only. No e-mails or phone calls."

The entry deadline is March 13, 2005. The address is the Aspen Daily News, 517 E. Hopkins Ave., Aspen, CO 81611.

Entrants must include an actual photograph of the cannon being entered (no conceptual drawings), how far it fires, an approximate date when it was last fired, and whether anyone was seriously injured at said firing. Cannons with historic value or from Kentucky will be awarded extra points. Any other important or impressive information should also be included. Entrants MUST actually own the cannon being entered, or obtain legal access to it.

"The winner is responsible for transporting the cannon to Aspen at his or her own expense, and on short notice," Hooper said.

Hooper said the Aspen Daily News decided to sponsor the Hunter S. Thompson Blast-Off Cannon Contest after discussing the issue with Thompson's friends and family who want to honor the canonical author's wish to have his remains blasted over Owl Farm.

In recent days, cannon owners began to step forward, volunteering their weaponry to the family through their connection of the newspaper. "But they didn't really have a direction in which to step," said a low-level Aspen Daily News editor, "so now we are giving Thompson's fans that direction."

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Cannons with historic value or from Kentucky will be awarded extra points.

w00t!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

canonical author har har

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

that's one way to get in, i guess

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

he wouldn't have wanted to do this while the football season was going, he'd never have learned who won the Super Bowl that year.

this is what I was saying!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 3 March 2005 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The more I read about this, the more I think that it was an accident.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 3 March 2005 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Hunter Thompson memorialized...

At the memorial, neighbor and actor Don Johnson remembered once asking Thompson: What is the sound of one hand clapping? Thompson responded by slapping Johnson across the face.

Hahaha

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Doonesbury pays homage to Hunter S. Thompson; Uncle Duke’s head explodes
By David Twiddy
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Doonesbury, with a longtime character modelled on “gonzo journalist” Hunter S. Thompson, took note of the writer’s suicide with a comic strip this week that had the Thompson-like figure’s head exploding.
Thompson shot himself in the head last month at 67.
In the installment that ran Tuesday, Uncle Duke, the Thompson-like character, is seen checking his e-mail. He reads Thompson is dead and his head explodes with a “Ka-Boom!” His head reappears in the next frame as he says: “That can’t be right. Better Google it.”
That is followed by another “Ka-Boom!”
Newspapers from time to time have pulled Doonesbury strips they deemed offensive. But the strip’s distributor said Wednesday it had received only two complaints and no reports any of the 1,400 newspapers that carry Doonesbury pulled it.
“Why should they?” said Alan McDermott, a senior editor at Universal Press Syndicate, based in Kansas City.
“Uncle Duke has been kind of a wild character over the years, so how he’s reacting to the death of Hunter S. Thompson is no different than his reactions to many things over the years.”
An e-mail sent to Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau’s website by The Associated Press was not immediately returned. But in an e-mail in Wednesday’s Washington Post newspaper, Trudeau said regular readers of the strip should not find Duke’s exploding head all that unfamiliar.
“I’ve been exploding Duke’s head as far back as 1985,” he said.
“I also had a rocket burst out of his head, a flock of bats and during Duke’s run for president, Mini-D, a tiny self that conducted Duke’s business, even gave speeches when the candidate was incapacitated.”

― Huk-L, Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy fuck. Check out http://www.doonesbury.com

― Huk-L, Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

So Raoul Duke has the look of Hunter Thompson, the voice of William Burroughs, and the dance moves of Billy Squier?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. Yes he does. :)

Any further word on the public ceremony planned for this summer (dates, location, speakers, etc.)?

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

That dancing Duke icon has been up on the main page for a couple of years at least.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, well. You would know.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

At the memorial, neighbor and actor Don Johnson remembered once asking Thompson: What is the sound of one hand clapping? Thompson responded by slapping Johnson across the face.

Ha, that's way better than Bart Simpson's answer.

― Don't Ever Antagonize The Horny (AaronHz), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The police report--

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0307051thompson1.html

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Friday, 11 March 2005 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hunter S. Thompson’s body was found in a chair in the kitchen in front of his typewriter with the word “counselor” typed in the centre of the page, according to sheriff’s reports.
The word was typed on stationery from the Fourth Amendment Foundation, which was started to defend victims of unwarranted search and seizure, according to reports released Tuesday.
It was not immediately known what, if any, significance the word had to the founder of “gonzo” journalism or to his family."

rosebud...rosebud...

― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Friday, 11 March 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 14 March 2005 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

the brinkley and depp pieces are fuckin' stunning.

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 14 March 2005 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)

and the wenner one ain't bad either

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 14 March 2005 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i wouldn't mind reading these. I'd buy a copy if i knew anywhere that sold it (UK)

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 14 March 2005 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

geeta why not just type them out and post them here. hunter used to do that, with work he admired. see what i'm getting at?

i am afraid i might miss this while its on the newstands. news-stands.

― ugarat, Monday, 14 March 2005 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i didn't mean to imply that hunter posted here.

― finnish, Monday, 14 March 2005 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The local buzz (I live in Aspen right now) is that, in addition to the cannon blasting, there will be some sort of Hunterapalooza here in July or something. I WAS planning on leaving in May but that's exactly the kind of thing I'd love to go to. The Doctor may have been the most influential writer in my life...Fear and Loathing in America (his collected letters) is a monumental document.

Also, one of the better quotes from the local papers: Neighbor Something Something had this to say about the cannon deal: "Just so long as they point the thing east."

or something to that effect.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

This is tomorrow right? Is it being webcast anywhere?

― wombatX (wombatX), Thursday, 18 August 2005 23:58 (twenty years ago)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002442863_thompson17.html

"Anita Thompson, 32, said she plans to protect and promote her husband's legacy."

In other words: forget the webcast, the cannon blast thing will be available on a DVD shortly for you to buy with dollars.

"The monument towers over a field between the home and a tree-covered red-rock canyon wall. It is shrouded in gray and blue tarpaulins that ripple in the wind and it will not be unveiled until Saturday. It is modeled after Thompson's gonzo logo: a clenched fist, made symmetrical with the addition of a second thumb, perched atop a dagger."

This does sound totally awesome, I must admit.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 19 August 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

yeah, let's cast aspersions on widows' motives!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 August 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

classy!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

If I had my way, it would be broadcast on all tv stations. Hey, has anyone seen the Flying Dog beer memorial brew? It costs a lot and comes in a huge bottle signed by Ralph Steadman. The timing is a little late now, but one of the beers shipped with a golden ticket you could use to go to Hunter's memorial service / cannon firing! The rationale was that Johnny Depp will be there front and center, he's Willy Wonka, etc.

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

How cool would it be if Oprah's fiance were Ralph Steadman?

― M. V. (M.V.), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4168266.stm

There's a link to the cannon-firing from there.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 21 August 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

it happened
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/08/20/thompson.memorial.ap/vert.cannon.ap.jpg

― huell howser (chaki), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm anxious to see if that whinebag Krystal Grow made it in.

― scrimhaw1837 (son_of_scrimshaw), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm wondering how many tabs of acid John Kerry ingested.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071012/ap_en_ot/the_gonzo_way

― gabbneb, Friday, 12 October 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

AGAIN???

― nabisco, Friday, 12 October 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck

― omar little, Friday, 12 October 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.corregidorisland.com/macarthur.jpg

― gabbneb, Friday, 12 October 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

yesterday, the ny post reports that howard stern is under investigation for "insider trading." and now, this. not a good weekend :-(
-- Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:52 (2 years ago) Link

o_O

― Jordan Sargent, Friday, 12 October 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

I loved the thing of his in the Harper's this month.

― Abbott, Friday, 12 October 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

RIP, heaven needed a dude who influenced every shitty journalist ever.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 12 October 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

<I>i blame this on bush...</i>

lol

RIP, heaven needed a dude who influenced every shitty journalist ever.

lol lol

― Cunga, Friday, 12 October 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

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