R.I.P Hunter S. Thompson

[gococksDJS]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/02/21/thompson.obit/index.html

Although the man was a huge drug addict and advocate, he was a great author who wrote "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" which I think is a great book and movie. He committed suicide. This is a good write up on him.

 

[Decker]

He was an articulate, funny writer. He had to be...If you'd ever heard him speak, it was damn near impossible to decipher his words.

 

[maniclion]

Very sad today, I think he was suffering from a terminal illness and just wanted it to end cause I would never imagine he'd take his own life. Or maybe he just couldn't face 4 more years of Bush.

 

[SJ69]

Very sad today, I think he was suffering from a terminal illness and just wanted it to end cause I would never imagine he'd take his own life. Or maybe he just couldn't face 4 more years of Bush.

Maybe he was worried that Billary might win in 4 yrs.

 

[cappo5150]

my god man.

 

[J-Man]

A loss of a different and in many ways original mind. I thought I'd heard about him having Cancer or something along those lines... cant remember when or where I read the article though. He sounds like he was quite insane in this later years, but then again, who would have ever thought him sane when he was young?

Definitely a character though, I had a friend a couple years back that claimed to live in his area and had met him.

 

[Flex]

Not in any way to talk bad about him, and this is probably not the appropriate place to post this, but i thought that movie "Fear and Loathing" was god-awful. It was the only movie i've ever walked out of cuz it was so bad.

Maybe if i saw it again now that i know more about drugs it'd be better

 

[J-Man]

Its not for everyone for sure Flex... and I've been told you cant fully appreciate it unless you've taken acid. Which I havent, but hey, I thought it was pretty fun without. Perhaps you just have to let yourself get into the mindset where you can understand what those freaks were doing in the movie.

 

[maniclion]

Flex you'd probably find hilarity in Bill Murray's "Where the Buffalo Roam" and then find "Fear and Loathing" great after reading the book, Thompson as eccentric as he was could make you go hmmm, I mean the guy was so level minded at time he was like a pendulum swinging from drunken craziness to stone cold sober intellect all in one sentence. I read all of his books and found his political insight to be spot on almost everytime.

 

[Spitfire]

OH Shit!

 

[Spitfire]

I was recently writing articles on ESPN3 or something

 

[Spitfire]

His ESPN stuff

 

[trvlr70]

Sad news, especially for the family he left behind.

 

[maniclion]

His son is saying he wasn't depressed or anything, he just wated to go out in his prime, before old age took him down. You gotta think a man who lived as fast and wild as he did, would at 67, feel like he was 97. And I'm sure he did with hip replacement, a broken leg and back surgery adding to the years of hard living. I'm 27 and feel the strains of my wild days. They say that's why Hemingway took his life, because he didn't want to face the indignities of being old, helpless and weak.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/02/24/thompson.death.ap/index.html

'I'm a road man for the lords of karma.' HST
I like that quote.

 

[Vieope]

I need to read his books. RIP

 

[maniclion]

I need to read his books. RIP

Hunter arrived in Brazil and I was driving on Copacabana beach in an open MG with a guy named Archie Dick who was one of our gang down there, and I saw Hunter sort of loping along. And we picked him up and he'd been drinking a little bit and he was really damn glad to see us. He looked like death warmed over. Just really ragged. But the thing that really struck us was the fact that he had a monkey in his pocket. And the monkey was drunk. And had thrown up in his pocket.

I remember there was no talk of Sandy coming down. And all of a sudden she was there. ---ROBERT BONE

Mainly we'd go to Kit Kat club, a block and a half from Copacabana Beach. We'd stay till five or six in the morning, and we'd drink until that time or maybe sometimes pick up the women. But normally we'd just sit there and drink. Some how or other the liquor seemed to flow a little bit more in Brazil. You didn't think twice about it. Being drunk was a kind of natural state. --- ROBERT BONE

 

[Vieope]

Sweet

 

[maniclion]

Is that a monkey in your pocket or are you not very happy to see me.

 

[Vieope]

 

[Mudge]

Del Torro looks like Pitt with a black eye.

 

[maniclion]

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[Vieope]

Again with the monkeys manic.

 

[maniclion]

I'm building an army.

 

[Newt]

"Did you see the size of those fucking bats man".