carew66 Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 Yeah, s'true. Here's a link: BBC News: Hunter S Thompson dies at 67 Early reports suggest suicide. His son states he shot himself. Man, that guy even dies Gonzo. What a shame. I know that there are a few fans of HST on this board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadaBing Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 carew66 said: What a shame. I know that there are a few fans of HST on this board. I being one of them , always enjoyed his musings , and here are some of them.... http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/archive?columnist=hunter_s._thompson&root=page2 RIP Hunter BadaBing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 Another gun freak. He could write though. Pity. On the other hand he did go out with a bang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 I will miss him. I often thought of him as a role model. Loved his style, often wondered what his take on BKK would have been... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 Not to speak ill of the dead but how do you know he wasn't a big phony? He was married for one thing but he might have come to Bangkok, barfined a bunch of girls from NEP, make a big show of leaving with them, then go back to his hotel alone and watch CNN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 Given his public escapades, and those who knew him well, not to mention his arrest records, I am guessing he was pretty much the real deal. As for being Married, I think his 2nd or 3rd wife, maybe more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 I'm not saying HT was a total phony. He was definitely 'out there' but the fiction process is strange. It can hide more than it reveals. Reality gets bent, enhanced, exagerated. He was a writer. The act of writing needs a lot of mental discipline. The real gonzos mostly end in the gutter or jumping out of Pattaya condos. Arrest record? Bit of drug trouble in Aspen? Big deal. Yes it would be nice to imagine him running bollock-naked through Nana but I doubt if his 3rd. wife would have let him go to Bangkok on his own. Would have been a bad career move anyway. There can be a disconnect between the public persona and the real person. Hemingway comes to mind. I wonder what was so intolerable about his life that lead him to end it? "I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."- Hunter S. Thompson Just found this link for further research... http://www.mattwelch.com/OJRsave/OJRsave/HST.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gobbledonk Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 Very profound observations, Chuck. At the risk of stating the blindingly obvious, it seems that the first decade of the new century is proving to be the swansong for the icons of the old. Yes, I know that many of them didnt make it to 2000, but the people who are leaving us now were much more an immediate part of my youth than Gandhi and Co, and several of them weren't much older than I was. Hard to believe that Thompson made it into his late 60's, given his 'take no prisoners' approach, but time marches on : if Bruce Lee had lived, he'd be 62 this year. How many of us can remember the first time we saw 'Enter the Dragon' : for me, it feels like it was yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 Maybe I'm getting conservative in my old age but I'm not too impressed with Hunter's latest escapade. I keep thinking of his son having to clean his father's brains of the ceiling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 I think we see less and less adventurous people. Sports become more risky, but media itself seems to be more and more conservative. The internet allows you to claim/type anything, but the mainstream press is not "Out There" enough. I liked his stuff DOG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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