RIP Hunter S. Thompson

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It's not music related, but this showed up in the Steinman thread and
I think it's better to give Hunter his own thread.

This really sucks.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=518158

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 February 2005 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Hunter S Thompson commits suicide

― Fat Anarchy on Airtube (ex machina), Monday, 21 February 2005 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

oh. Guess I should look at ILE more often...

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

ouch. just heard the news. it's actually kind of warming. he was old enough to know that's what he wanted. Cheers! (Pours out contents of Olde English 40 oz.)

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Who in the fuck at ABC edited that AP dispatch to read that "Richard Nixon once said he represented 'that dark, venal, and incurably violent side of the American character'"? The same person, I suppose, who corrected the spelling of Trudeau's name to "Gary."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 21 February 2005 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Unfortuntately Thompson represented what Gore Vidal called that breed of male American writer whose obsession with machismo killed him. I couldn't stand his stuff but RIP.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 21 February 2005 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

unfotunately gore vidal should never have been allowed access to paper and ink. rip hunter.

― NRQ, Monday, 21 February 2005 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Gore Vidal blew Jack Kerouac.

― shookout (shookout), Monday, 21 February 2005 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Bedtime for Gonzo. ;-((

Even when he was downright slack, and ranting, and fried out of his mind, he was always worth reading. I guess now we'll have to do all our Fear and Loathing on our own.

If I were still drinking, I'd finish off a fifth of bourbon and chuck it through a window in his honor.

Hunter, you twisted pigfuck, you're really gonna be missed.

― bob le flâneur, Monday, 21 February 2005 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

except for his penchant for firearms, that man was a disgrace to everything that the U.S. military stands for.

― Sgt. Vance Jurgenson, USMC, Monday, 21 February 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

too weird to live, and too rare to die

r.i.p.

― miss chievous grin (miss chevious grin), Monday, 21 February 2005 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The world, and politics, is a less interesting place without him.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

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