NEWS: Doctor Hunter Thompson, He Dead

It is a shame that he went out the way he did. I don't think that modern day american literature will be the same without him.

Fuck

this quote has a lot of meaning for me.....reading it always makes me cry

[Edited on Feb 22, 2005 by Gitsie]

May we all be as evil as Hunter. In some way, in some how.
Let someone be, out there, who has such a subtle grasp of english as to be able to turn a phrase as magically as he did.
Hunter will never be copied.
Let see about Thompson...

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, a well cherished out spoken individual. Simular in subtle way's like others that have traveled the road's he did, but all together apart, different.

He will no doubt be missed, many mourn his passing, and many are caught off gaurd and past that, some may find themselves facing a shocking discovery bare to its shattering blow. Who really would have seen this coming... no one. And yet when taken upon reflection you might find yourself amazed it never happened sooner. He did put himself through an amazing journy, and you find yourself questioning now in the wake, the subtle wake of his life he decides to take his exit... and perhaps the answer is in the surprise it's self. What better way to go then to do it at the most unexpecting time, to deliver an undescribable shock.

Whatever the reason, I along with millions miss him and mourn his passing.

When I found out I went up to my room and sat myself in frong of my mixed shrine of undecided dietys and lit a candle for him, which I will let burn until it's last bright breath...

R.I.P Hunter S. Thompson.

duke:'You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands'.

It appears to me you're writing just fine, Brother.

Tried to avoid commenting, but hell, this smirnoff bottle has been a close 10th to Wild Turkey these last few days. I will never forget devouring Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas while stuck at some horrendous discount mall with my mom and aunt when I was 15. He's been in my life somehow since. I'd JUST read his latest a few weeks ago after not having read anything other than columns or sporadic comments for years before. What coincidence, as tiny and random.

The feeling I'm getting now is similar to how I felt after Bill Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg passed within about a year of each other. This feeling that, like others on this thread have said, it's time for us to stop taking shade in the shadows of these greats, and to become the lovers and warriors (in HST's words) that they all were.

Damn good he was around, and it just never did get fast enough?

4 years.

Holy crap, where does the time go?

-TM

I wonder about the times in which he lived, the places out in the dark at which he fired blindly hoping eventually "to hit something Evil, and feel no guilt," and the simultaneous anger and anxiety he had toward power—yet he held it like a tightened bow.

I also wish he would have waited four years, just to outlive a Bush presidency. But I comforted in knowing that he lived in his place and time, whatever that means.

I'm just glad he was fired out of a cannon like he wanted. Thanks, Mr. Depp.

5 years ago today, the world became a poorer place when he died.

Ave Atque Vale, Herr Doktor.

Stop crapping on dead celebrities with your inane thread-revivals, would you?

Yeah, I agree with MisterSatan. It's really creepy.