Really, do any of us?
Posted on 02/22/2005 1:04:35 PM PST by 45Auto
"his work will be forgotten."
Probably rite.
"Ask almost anyone today about Hunter Thompson and he will have no idea who you are talking about."
Like me. Who is this guy they keep mentioning every day since, on some news outlet? I don't even know what the !%#@ "Gonzo" is.....
But wait, all the coffeehouse folks are mourning him! That means he was important, right? /sarc
Ouch.
Hunter Thompson shot himself in the head sometime on Saturday and a few things are certain. He was either stoned or hung over, and his work will be forgotten.I still suspect there was some sort of terminal and/or painful illness involved. Eating a shotgun doesn't seem his style, unless that was the case. In which case it totally seems like something he would do.
You can say a lot of things about the guy, and his politics sucked for sure except where guns (possibly the most important issue) were involved. But you couldn't call him fake.
-Eric
He was plenty talented. Just because you don't like his message doesn't take that away. Being talented has no moral value unless you put your talent to good works; I'm not claiming that. But the talent was there.
I remember.
Isn't it odd that this post is from 45Auto? Hunter would have appreciated that.
Everything you've ever heard about him is probably true.
Rest in peace HST.
Didn't have a new act.....
His work will be forgotten.
My Momma always said if you dont have something good to say about a person , dont say anything. No Comment.
I was always taught that suicide was the ultimate temper tantrum.
We're not going to tell you about the Manta bats,
you wouldn't see them anyway.
One thing about Hunter, he wasn't like the others.
Good confession column! ;^)
I dont know much about him except from that movie, fear and loathing in las vegas, which was quite kool.
Can't even get the quote right, it's "when the going gets wierd, the wierd turn pro". And the fine folks at Modern Library think he'll be remembered.
It took the DUmmies all of five minutes to conclude that he was murdered on the orders of Karl Rove.
You just knew that Hunter was really crazy - all of the time. The booze, the dope, the guns and exceedingly strange outlook on the world. But still...but still there was something endearing about him. I can't quite figure what it was, but his writing sure made college a lot more interesting than it would have been otherwise.
He was a man who made positively no apparent sense in his writing - except to tell us that life was a bizarre and uncanny thing that could truly bite in you in the butt when you least expected it.
I hope God enjoys Hunter a lot.
PS: Do you think there's good scotch in Heaven?
Amen to that..
Really, do any of us?
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