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I'm lost
December 2004

FEB 26, 2005 02:33 PM

"He had no humor. He was insignificant in every way and consequently I didn't pay much attention to him. But when he passed out in my bathtub, then I noticed him. I'd been in another room, talking to the bright people. I had to have him taken away."





























--Hunter S. Thompson, on meeting George W. Bush at a Super Bowl party in Houston in 1974

~ahhh, see.... you thought it was the other way around now didn't you? well now, aren't you pleasantly surprised? hunter was a great american hero and now he is dead. the greats always die before their time, but hunter, he was just before his time all together... RIP Hunter S. Thompson 2.20.05
DON'T TAKE ANY GUFF FROM THOSE SWINE!!!

abracadabra

abracadabra

Seattle, WA
April 2004

FEB 26, 2005 02:54 PM

a true original...yeah , i'm not really surprised by this story..what a jerk

Cheech

Cheech

Portland, OR
January 2003

FEB 26, 2005 03:44 PM

smile

_DictionaryGirl_

_DictionaryGirl_

NEWSWIRE

San Diego, CA

FEB 26, 2005 04:04 PM

This story makes me sad and happy all at once.

burstandbloom

burstandbloom

New Orleans, LA
February 2004

FEB 26, 2005 04:08 PM

HST was the greatest

jonz

jonz

United Kingdom
November 2004

FEB 26, 2005 04:09 PM

Thanks for the post. As a Brit I've not heard of Hunter Thompson. Now I'll go and find out.
(I like it how the apparently slightest of encounters can lead to such intrigue).

NoFi

NoFi

Redondo Beach, CA
February 2004

FEB 26, 2005 04:22 PM

jonz said:
Thanks for the post. As a Brit I've not heard of Hunter Thompson. Now I'll go and find out.
(I like it how the apparently slightest of encounters can lead to such intrigue).



maybe you've heard of his friend and illustrator of his book Ralph Steadman. he's a brit.

Altoid

Altoid

Huntsville, AL
November 2003

FEB 26, 2005 05:26 PM

The best HST quote I've read this week is this:

"Thompson predicted that Kerry would beat Bush in November, and he feared what the alternative would say about America. "The question this year is not whether President Bush is acting more and more like the head of a fascist government but if the American people want it that way," Thompson wrote in Rolling Stone. "That is what this election is all about."

Thompson knew were he stood. In 2003's "Kingdom of Fear," he wrote: "We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world -- a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us . . . . No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you.

"Well, shit on that dumbness. George W. Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my friends or the people I respect in this world. We didn't vote for these cheap, greedy little killers who speak for America today -- and we will not vote for them again in 2002. Or 2004. Or ever. " "

dirtyground

dirtyground

Chicago, IL
August 2003

FEB 26, 2005 05:41 PM

thats such a good mental image... Bush passed out in HST's bathtub.

tonkakatt

tonkakatt

Boston, MA
June 2004

FEB 26, 2005 08:51 PM

love him or hate him he was an interesting man. we've lost a remarkable person.

Keith

Keith

Hooker, OK
August 2002

FEB 27, 2005 01:11 AM

Altoid said:
The best HST quote I've read this week is this:

"Thompson predicted that Kerry would beat Bush in November, and he feared what the alternative would say about America. "The question this year is not whether President Bush is acting more and more like the head of a fascist government but if the American people want it that way," Thompson wrote in Rolling Stone. "That is what this election is all about."

Thompson knew were he stood. In 2003's "Kingdom of Fear," he wrote: "We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world -- a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us . . . . No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you.

"Well, shit on that dumbness. George W. Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my friends or the people I respect in this world. We didn't vote for these cheap, greedy little killers who speak for America today -- and we will not vote for them again in 2002. Or 2004. Or ever. " "


I had actually just posted the full version of this quote in my journal earlier today.

This is my favorite part:


Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill "gooks". They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are racists and hate mongers among us-they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them.



[Edited on Feb 27, 2005 by Keith]