Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide

[TastesLikeChicken]

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There's really not much to say here. It's more a commemorative topic. I loved his ecclectic writing style and his odd turn of a phrase, odd characters, and plot twists. He will be sorely missed.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
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There's really not much to say here. It's more a commemorative topic. I loved his ecclectic writing style and his odd turn of a phrase, odd characters, and plot twists. He will be sorely missed.

So being souped up on Drugs is "Ecclectic"???

 

[Proletariat]

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
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There's really not much to say here. It's more a commemorative topic. I loved his ecclectic writing style and his odd turn of a phrase, odd characters, and plot twists. He will be sorely missed.

Damn, there goes my day. *sigh*

No offense, but I wouldn't have expected you to like him. I mean you know... with all his Republicans are nazi s***-eaters stuff.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
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There's really not much to say here. It's more a commemorative topic. I loved his ecclectic writing style and his odd turn of a phrase, odd characters, and plot twists. He will be sorely missed.

So being souped up on Drugs is "Ecclectic"???

I was referring to his writing style.

Originally posted by: Proletariat

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
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There's really not much to say here. It's more a commemorative topic. I loved his ecclectic writing style and his odd turn of a phrase, odd characters, and plot twists. He will be sorely missed.

Damn, there goes my day. *sigh*

No offense, but I wouldn't have expected you to like him. I mean you know... with all his Republicans are nazi s***-eaters stuff.

No offense taken. I used to be quite the radical back in the day. Dropping a tab and reading HST was a lot of fun, at least until I got distracted by the tracers.

 

[Steeplerot]

This is a great loss to the literary world. I grew up on his books.

 

[dannybin1742]

how ironic, i just started reading kingdom of fear

seriously though, TLC is right, interesting writing syle, i like it :thumbsup:

 

[daveshel]

 

[judasmachine]

when the very symbol of our own nihilism implodes are we not also doomed to a similiar fate?

so long mr. thompson, may the tide not recede where you are going.

 

[Proletariat]

"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of ''history'' it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time -- and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."

"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. "

 

[Red Dawn]

I'm surprised he lasted this long considering the vast quatities of illicit drugs he's consumed and the fact that many groups like the Hells Angels to many in our own Government would like to have seen him fall off of the face of the earth.

That said, Happy Trails Hunter. You are now free from the rest of the idiots you had to bare.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Maybe he's finally happy. Death is an eternal trip.

 

[Pliablemoose]

I have done it nine or 10 times in a row, and I still have recurring nightmares about it (Going to the Kentucky Derby) that cause me to wake up sweating & screaming like some kind of pig being eaten alive by meat-bats.

He will be missed, looks like the meat-bats finally got him

 

[alchemize]

Wow - RIP Hunter. My Samoan attorney has advised me to not mention the looney left until after work.

 

[BBond]

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
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There's really not much to say here. It's more a commemorative topic. I loved his ecclectic writing style and his odd turn of a phrase, odd characters, and plot twists. He will be sorely missed.

So being souped up on Drugs is "Ecclectic"???

I was referring to his writing style.

Originally posted by: Proletariat

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
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There's really not much to say here. It's more a commemorative topic. I loved his ecclectic writing style and his odd turn of a phrase, odd characters, and plot twists. He will be sorely missed.

Damn, there goes my day. *sigh*

No offense, but I wouldn't have expected you to like him. I mean you know... with all his Republicans are nazi s***-eaters stuff.

No offense taken. I used to be quite the radical back in the day. Dropping a tab and reading HST was a lot of fun, at least until I got distracted by the tracers.

I suggest you put these confessions of drug use on tape and run for president.

 

[IdaGno]

Stylin to the very end, he went out on President's Day.

 

[conjur]

My nephew just graduated from the same high school he went to (my youngest will be going there before too long)

Sad to see him go out like that.

 

[PatboyX]

Originally posted by: IdaGno
Stylin to the very end, he went out on President's Day.

yeah, i was thinking about that being a stylistic choice myself.
it seems pretty perfect for him, going on a holiday weekend.

sad but...he had a great run. it always seems that the people who live the absolute extreme lifestyle of debauchery seem to make it longer than us middle-grounders.
truly a unique individual, in a time when it was becoming more and more appropriate to become assimilated by the status quo.

 

[bamacre]

I got the day off today, I may have to whip out some latin lettuce and pop in some "Where the Buffalo Roam."

 

[Perknose]

Damn, damn, damn.

Why bother with newspapers, if this is all they offer? Agnew was right. The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits - a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.

-- Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

Above all, the man could write. :wine:



Here is his eulogy to Nixon:

Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosones that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine.

and . . .

If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.

Hunter Thompson was a holy fool, burning his candle at both ends that we might catch some skittering glimpse of the transcendant and enduring truth that then, as now, mediocrity and mendacity -- from Nixon to Bush -- rules the day.

America. We are a giant of a nation ruled by Republican pygmies.

The good, they die young. :wine:

 

[Zedtom]

I am truly stunned by this news. I never could reconcile my fascination and disgust for him. I admired his writing style and his iconoclastic lifestyle.

Last year when that guy in Granby, Colorado went nuts with the bulldozer, I thought of Thompson, and imagined that he would love to do something like that in the streets of Aspen.

So long, dude. See 'ya on the other side.

 

[alchemize]

Originally posted by: Perknose


America. We are a giant of a nation ruled by Republican pygmies.

Better that than a tiny nation ruled by bloated democrats (see France )

The good, they die young. :wine:

Which explains his death at 67??

My Samoan attorney advised me I can now resume commenting on leftist lunacy. Like all the rabid hatemongers on the left, of course, he clearly was self-destructive as evidenced by his final demise.

How sad that in his last Book (from the reviews, I use that term loosely) he decided to buy into the leftist spittle-chinned hype that he was somehow better and more intelligent than all the rest of us...perhaps that contributed to his decision to pull the trigger.

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
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There's really not much to say here. It's more a commemorative topic. I loved his ecclectic writing style and his odd turn of a phrase, odd characters, and plot twists. He will be sorely missed.

So being souped up on Drugs is "Ecclectic"???

what is you problem man?:roll:

 

[Mookow]

I think the toxicology results should be interesting reading.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: alchemize
My Samoan attorney advised me I can now resume commenting on leftist lunacy. Like all the rabid hatemongers on the left, of course, he clearly was self-destructive as evidenced by his final demise.

How sad that in his last Book (from the reviews, I use that term loosely) he decided to buy into the leftist spittle-chinned hype that he was somehow better and more intelligent than all the rest of us...perhaps that contributed to his decision to pull the trigger.

Hunter ALWAYS AND UNAPOLOGETICALLY thought he was better and more intelligent than you and he was right.

You sneer and take your posthumous potshots even as you shamelessly ape his superior style ("My Samoan attorney . . .}

Long after you too are nothing but dust and worm meat people will still read and be grateful for Hunter S. Thompson. Face it, al, you're not even going to come close.

And btw, Thompson had nothing but contempt for your politics and outlook, and again and again in print he skinned it live and nailed it to the wall for all to point at and laugh.

You talk about rabid hatemongers even as you unselfconciously spew your bitter drivel. You don't even seem to get the irony, as you raise yourself on your pygmy midget legs and try to bring down a giant.

Hey Rube! Hunter Thompson is pissing on your dog.

 

[alchemize]

Hunter ALWAYS AND UNAPOLOGETICALLY thought he was better and more intelligent than you and he was right.

Isn't that what I said? He's no different than any number of P&N posters in that regard.

You sneer and take your posthumous potshots even as you shamelessly ape his superior style ("My Samoan attorney . . .}

Would Hunter mind? But I disagree, I'm talking about his politics, and his method of death. I think he was a great author, certainly "one of a kind" that will never be duplicated.

Long after you too are nothing but dust and worm meat people will still read and be grateful for Hunter S. Thompson. Face it, al, you're not even going to come close.

You are correct, I probably won't ask for a 12 gauge blow-job when I'm 67. Why would I bring such shame and misery on my family? I'll forgo 500 bestselling books to live to 68.

And btw, Thompson had nothing but contempt for your politics and outlook, and again and again in print he skinned it live and nailed it to the wall for all to point at and laugh.

Of course he did! That's part of hating those who have different viewpoints than you. Apparently you think that blinders only function when you look to the right?

You talk about rabid hatemongers even as you unselfconciously spew your bitter drivel.

Bitter drivel? No, I recognize the hate on "my side" as well. I just find great humour in those who cannot see it in themselves. HST was a fantastic example of that.

You don't even seem to get the irony, as you raise yourself on your pygmy midget legs and try to bring down a giant.

Who's trying to bring him down? He was a great author who I thoroughly enjoyed (Sans his outright leftist political work of course), with apparently a diseased mind. I'll probably read more of his work - excluding the link you referenced of course. I get my fill of "I'm smarter than you and you are evil" right here, for free.