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Hunter Thompson best known for Fear and Loathing passed away tonight. He shot himself in the head. No joke. Rest in Peace Hunter Thompson. Tonight I blaze, watch Fear and Loathing and toke for you. Peace. By the way "it's bat country."
Rev. Michael T
Soldier for Christ
Rip Hunter Thompson
I'm blazin a J in his honor right now.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/21thomp.htmlQuote:
ASPEN, Colo. -- Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday night at his home, his son said. He was 67.
"Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family," Juan Thompson said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News.
Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis, a personal friend of Thompson, confirmed the death to the News. Sheriff's officials did not return calls to The Associated Press late Sunday.
Juan Thompson found his father's body. Thompson's wife, Anita, was not home at the time.
Besides the 1972 drug-hazed classic about Thompson's time in Las Vegas, he is credited with pioneering New Journalism-- or "gonzo journalism"-- in which the writer made himself an essential component of the story.
An acute observer of the decadence and depravity in American life, Thompson wrote such books as "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail" in 1973 and the collections "Generation of Swine" and "Songs of the Doomed." His first ever novel, "The Rum Diary," written in 1959, was first published in 1998.
Other books include "Hell's Angels" and "The Proud Highway." His most recent effort was "Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and The Downward Spiral of Dumbness."
Across the country people are getting stoned (including me) because of this man's death. FUCK YEAH!
Good night,
Sweet Prince
i luv that movie! thats so sad that he died..
RIP Hunter..... He made some great Novels...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp.../obit_thompson
Born July 18, 1937, in Kentucky, Hunter Stocton Thompson served two years in the Air Force, where he was a newspaper sports editor. He later became a proud member of the National Rifle Association and almost was elected sheriff in Aspen in 1970 under the Freak Power Party banner.
Thompson's heyday came in the 1970s, when his larger-than-life persona was gobbled up by magazines. His pieces were of legendary length and so was his appetite for adventure and trouble; his purported fights with Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner were rumored in many cases to hinge on expense accounts for stories that didn't materialize.
"It was hard to say sometimes whether he was being provocative for its own sake or if he was just being drunk and stoned and irresponsible," quipped Krassner, founder of the leftist publication The Realist and co-founder of the Youth International (YIPPIE) party.
...........................R - I - P................
.................HUNTER - S. - THOMPSON..........
........................BORN - 1937.....................
..WENT INSANE AND SHOT HIMSELF - 2005
The Man , The Myth , The Legend
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