Legendary US author Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide

Entertainment - AFP ^ | 2/21/2005

[wingblade]

...like frogs in a dynamite pond.

[Izzy Dunne]

a popular reputation as a wild-living, hard-drinking, LSD-crazed writer bent on self-destruction.

Sure took him a long time.

[xp38]

I don't think he liked W much.

[Fintan]

 

[Izzy Dunne]

So it's Bush's fault ??

[DB]

"...a wild-living, hard-drinking, LSD-crazed -fill in the blank- bent on self-destruction."

Why not just use the short version: Democrat.

[marty60]

his heady experiences earned him a popular reputation as a wild-living, hard-drinking, LSD-crazed writer bent on self-destruction.

Well this discription does remind one of dumocrats.

[marty60]

Beat me to it. but, I bet that's the first thought everyone has when they read the sentence.

[DB]

Okay, so I stated the obvious...

[MadIvan]

I've never read Thompson, but I am grateful for one thing from him - it is clear that P.J. O'Rourke regards him as an influence on his writing.

Regards, Ivan

[dennisw]

An drug addled idiot but an entertaining one. I never spent a dime on his books.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

I read his stuff in the 70's, but I grew up, and his later stuff was mildy funny. His grip on reality was not what it should have been.

I expected this, whenever I thought about it, for a long time. He loved likker,drugs and guns.

Gimme Back My Bullets
Gimme Back My Bullets
(Allen Collins -- Ronnie VanZant)

Life is so strange when its changin', yes indeed
Well I've seen the hard times and the pressure's been on me
But I keep on workin' like the workin' man do
And I've got my act together, gonna walk all over you

(chorus)
Gimme back my bullets
Put 'em back where they belong
Ain't foolin' around 'cause I done had my fun
Ain't gonna see no more damage done
Gimme back my bullets

Sweet talkin' people done ran me out of town
And I drank enough whiskey to float a battleship around
But I'm leavin' this game one step ahead of you
And you will not hear me cry 'cause I do not sing the blues

(chorus)
Gimme back my bullets
Put 'em back where they belong
Ain't foolin' around 'cause I done had my fun
Ain't gonna see no more damage done
Gimme back, gimme back my bullets
Oh, put 'em back... where they belong

Been up and down since I turned seventeen
Well I've been on top, and then it seems I lost my dream
But I got it back, I'm feelin' better everyday
Tell all those pencil pushers, better get out of my way

(chorus)
Gimme back my bullets
Put 'em back where they belong
Ain't foolin' around, 'cause I done had my fun
Ain't gonna see no more damage done
Gimme back, gimme back my bullets
Oh put 'em back where they belong
Gimme back my bullets

[wingblade]

As much as he liked to play with guns, it could've been an accident. If not, I wonder if there was a "suicide note".

[bikepacker67]

I wonder if, perhaps, a medical diagnosis of some terminal malady urged ol' Hunt to eat a bullet...

He seemed too much a cranky cynic to take his life because of depression. But a pragmatic choice in the face of incurable lung-cancer sounds about right.

[wingblade]

I believe you may have hit the nail on the head.

[G.Mason]

Excellent!

Now I'd like to hear the ballad of Curtis Lowe please. ;)

[Dane]

his heady experiences earned him a popular reputation as a wild-living, hard-drinking, LSD-crazed writer bent on self-destruction.

Well this discription does remind one of dumocrats

No wonder he was such a big kerry supporter.

ESPN: Kerry will come through(Hunter S. Thompson)

[wingblade]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1992213#

possibly his last published

doesn't sound very unlike himself here...

[chronic_loser]

He was not so much pro-Kerry as he was VEHEMENTLY anti Bush..., and not just anti W, wither.

He loathed (pardon the pun) the entire Bush family. A conspiracy addled guy like him viewed the clan as a machiavellian dynasty, much like the Kennedys.

He was howlingly funny, and a great writer. I liked him because he was not one of those mewling whining self destructive types who constantly bawls out about the pain he is in, and then goes out to do some more idiocy that brings pain to himself. He was coarse, bitter, cynical, wigged out, incisive, astute, and a delight to read.

The fact that he rejected truth, God, and meaning automatically relegated his life to a fringe existence, and it was sad, of course. That made him similiar to today's "liberal" in that they share the same worldview. However, he despised the left and held them in almost as much contempt as freepers do.

He was a wonderfully talented man. I will miss his stuff.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

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