MekA_OnES? Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Hunter S. Thompson comitted suicide two years ago today.....unlike with anna nicole smith or steve irwin I actually feel sad knowing he isn't around anymore..... Rest In Peace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IOU Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Agreed.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suca Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 pourin' out some soy latte fo' my fallen soulja Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farside616 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Bump Hunter S. Thompson he was and still is the Man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blamo123 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 its a sad thing... yet i understand it in some way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_casek Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 rest in peace HST. i don't know if i believe he didn't kill himself or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoeLarryCurly Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 king gonzo.thought it was only a year.my how time flies. however, he's will be immortalized(bold word i guess), in the Garry Trudeau's newspaper comic strip Doonebury. He was friend's with Thompson, and the charactere Duke was based upon him. On 7 March 2005, the series began a sequence memorializing the death by suicide of Hunter S. Thompson, the inspiration for the character of Duke. In the sequence, Duke's head explodes upon reading the news; in an unusual development, no newspapers are known to have refused to print that day's strip. Trudeau indicated in a news story that one reason for this willingness may have been that the character had a history of similar events: "I've been exploding Duke's head as far back as 1985," he said.[19] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoeLarryCurly Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 found this gem. wrapping up a haw./kush/nycd blend..this one's for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MekA_OnES? Posted February 21, 2007 Author Share Posted February 21, 2007 I find it odd that a man who dedicated his whole life to writting wouldn't write a suicide note....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 he did write a suicide note though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MekA_OnES? Posted February 21, 2007 Author Share Posted February 21, 2007 pson's suicide note, and it twists our moral telescopes back into the focus we had when we first heard that he'd shot himself in the head. You recall that on Sunday, Feb. 20, when he took himself out, we wanted to think that it was a .45-caliber hara-kiri, an act of honor by a 67-year-old cultural hero who hadn't written much major work for 30 years, and now faced old age with a broken leg, a hip replacement, an addiction to alcohol and a habitual fondness for whatever else would light his crazed Christmas tree of a mind. But no, we quickly learned that it wasn't that pretty. He killed himself while talking on the phone with his wife, Anita. In the house with him were his son Juan, and his grandson. Not so honorable. You're supposed to go out behind the woodshed, face the existential solitude and let your loving survivors find you later. Oh, well. His ashes were fired into the sky near his home in Woody Creek, Colo., on Aug. 20 with lots of fireworks. That seemed to bring us some kind of suitably mad "closure," as the TV shrinks say. Now, Rolling Stone magazine, for which he wrote a lot of his best stuff in the '70s, has published a note he wrote to Anita four days before he killed himself in the kitchen. The note doesn't make you feel any better about his timing with the phone call and the son and grandson hearing the gun go off, but it turns out that our first, and nobler, explanations had some truth to them after all. "No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun -- for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax -- This won't hurt." With a sort of cryptic, ironic, metaphorical hilarity, he took a black marker and titled the note: "Football Season Is Over." Douglas Brinkley, a historian and Thompson's "official biographer," had a more mundane explanation for the title. In his piece on the Rolling Stone Web site, he wrote: "An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally embraced the Super Bowl in January as the high-water mark of his year. February, by contrast, was doldrums time." How bizarre that Thompson, who despised all that was official, and spent his life writing his own stone-loon autobiography, has an "official biographer." Those who would like to think that Thompson killed himself over something more crucial than professional football can re-read the note. shit.....for some reason I thought he didn't after reading this article i don't really think he was murdered...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gooch Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Rest In Peace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ski Mask Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 watched "where the buffalo roam" yesterday. I Still think Murray did a better HST than Depp. And I'm a big Duke fan too, my parents had all the 70s and 80s Doonsbury anthologies and I've read them all start to finish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26SidedCube Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Nah. Murray did an alright Thompson... Depp nailed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilrobotcloneattack Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Hunter S. was the man, and he took himself out rather then die as an old decrepited bastard in some nursing home. Mad respect for that and everything else he ever did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shitting Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 i thought he killed himself ages ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papa_dukes Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 respected. R.I.P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brick top Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=EYRTDz3j-eA RestInPower Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogie hands Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 definitely a very astute, entertaining writer. unfortunately when you combine mental illness with years of substance abuse this often the result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26SidedCube Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 unfortunately when you combine mental illness with years of substance abuse this often the result. Are you a conservative? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogie hands Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 not at all.....just someone with quite a bit of experience on both issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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