GONZO's DEAD

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StefanS

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Hunter S. Thompson, the maverick journalist and author whose savage chronicling of the underbelly of American life and politics embodied a new kind of nonfiction writing he called "gonzo journalism," died yesterday in Colorado. Tricia Louthis, of the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office, said Mr. Thompson had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Woody Creek, Colo., yesterday afternoon. He was 65
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/books/21hunter.html?hp

Sad day. One of the funniest, wittiest and craziest writers comitts suicide. :cry:

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Maybe he was terminally ill or something. I know that if I was coming down with alzheimer's or such, I would seriously consider something like that... I've no wish to spend perhaps decades at the end of my life a doddering, gibbering fool.
 
Hmmm.. sucks when someone commits suicide especially if there isn't any compelling reason such as alzheimers as was mentioned.
 
RussSchultz said:
Whatever it was, it certainly was compelling enough for him.
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Yeah, exactly.

I have a feeling we will find out more later, HST wasn't the type to hide his feelings....I'm pretty sure he left some form of suicide note/message.

We'll just have to wait a while to find out, right now the family will be too busy freaking/grieving to be much worried about getting that info out. :(
 
I don't know if one of you ever has read "Songs of the Doomed", but the first story was one of the funniest, most absurd stories I had the pleasure to read and better yet it still remained highly political.
 
Sorry, but I have heard crazy stuff before so I never take things at face value but wait a bit to see if any other strange things crop up around them
 
To use his own words:

There he goes... one of God's own prototypes.
A high-powered mutant of some kind, never even considered for mass production.
Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

Really sad.

digitalwanderer said:
I'm sure there is a compelling reason, it's just we don't know it yet. :?
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He probably couldn't take Four more years (to be fair he loathed most/all politicians.)

Cheers
Gubbi
 
Gubbi said:
There he goes... one of God's own prototypes.
A high-powered mutant of some kind, never even considered for mass production.
Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
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"But he walked on his own hind legs when he walked with the King." -HST
 
Currently his freinds and relatives are looking for a cannon to blow his ash right into the atmosphere :LOL: He knows how to go in style...
 
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