Hunter S. Thompson dead

**gav** · 21st February 2005, 20:18

Suicide apparently, wrote some good stuff.
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,...723492,00.html

**Oscar** · 21st February 2005, 20:40

Originally Posted by gav

Suicide apparently, wrote some good stuff.
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,...723492,00.html

Damn.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro...

RIP, Docktor.

**James Deuce** · 21st February 2005, 20:51

Shame he went that way.

I'll have to go and get his latest book now.

**Oscar** · 21st February 2005, 20:52

Originally Posted by Jim2

Shame he went that way.

I'll have to go and get his latest book now.

Have you read Rum Diaries?
That's the last one I read.

**James Deuce** · 21st February 2005, 20:58

Is that the one about the reporter who gets a job on the San Juan Daily News?

I read that on the plane back to NZ. It was too short, or too engrossing, I can't remember which. Felt like I WAS the dude by the end of it. Especially the bit about (I think) trying to decide if he was growing old and wise, or just old.

**Hitcher** · 21st February 2005, 21:06

The man loved motorcycles and wrote quite a bit about them and those who ride them. Great insights into motorcycle culture.

This is one of my alltime favourite motorcycle stories. Enjoy!

http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html

**Hitcher** · 21st February 2005, 21:15

Shame he elected to end his own life. The bastard could write. I envy him his gift.

**Bob** · 21st February 2005, 21:27

I've just been reading about the time Cycle World magazine gave him a Ducati to test. Madness.

Also shame to hear he chose to end it all.

Not looked yet, but if you want to read the full text of Thompson's Ducati test (and I believe it is well worth reading), do a Google search for "Song of the Sausage Creature".

**Hitcher** · 21st February 2005, 21:30

Originally Posted by Bob

Not looked yet, but if you want to read the full text of Thompson's Ducati test (and I believe it is well worth reading), do a Google search for "Song of the Sausage Creature".

Link already posted above.

**pritch** · 21st February 2005, 21:35

I loaned my copy of "Fear and Loathing" to a Samoan Lawyer I work with.
It seemed appropriate that he should read about the only Samoan Lawyer in literature. :-)

I was saddened to see that item tacked on to the end of the news tonight.
So passes the "original gonzo journalist".

RIP

**Oscar** · 21st February 2005, 21:41

Originally Posted by Jim2

Is that the one about the reporter who gets a job on the San Juan Daily News?

I read that on the plane back to NZ. It was too short, or too engrossing, I can't remember which. Felt like I WAS the dude by the end of it. Especially the bit about (I think) trying to decide if he was growing old and wise, or just old.

That's the one.

**Paul in NZ** · 22nd February 2005, 11:07

I was more a Tom Wolfe fan ever since my brother gave me his first book "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby" which was a hell of an experience for a 13 year old...

Still... You have to say poor old Hunter S did it his own way and in an increasingly conformist world, he was a stand out indiviual. Mad as a wet Scotsman but definately an original....

As for suicide, well, shame but in a lot of ways he was lucky to make it that far, he was expecting to be dead at 22 and 27 and was lucky the Hells Angels had a sense of humour (or needed the free marketting)

Funny really. When I heard the news last night I was listening to a Warren Zevon Album and mourning the loss of these people.... Wierd...

Paul N

**vifferman** · 22nd February 2005, 11:21

Originally Posted by Hitcher

The man loved motorcycles and wrote quite a bit about them and those who ride them. Great insights into motorcycle culture.

This is one of my alltime favourite motorcycle stories. Enjoy!

http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html

I especially loved:
"This motorcycle is simply too goddamn fast to ride at speed in any kind of normal road traffic unless you're ready to go straight down the centerline with your nuts on fire and a silent scream in your throat."
That would be the case with a lot of sprotsbikes nowadays...

I used to have Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - I wonder what I did with it? I have a feeling I gave it away, about the time I got rid of all my LPs and tapes and other crap I now wish I still had...