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I was expecting something disapointingly lame when I first heard about it, but I was pleasantly relieved when I read that he shot himself. I can't really say why. Hmmm. Godspeed. |
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well that sucks. Twas a good movie (didn't see the book), but I look foward to more gonzo journalism in the future. |
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Oh man thiss is horrible news..... What a tragedy. Quite a loss. RIP DR. GONZO *Has a drink of whisskey in his memory. |
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You know what's crazy... I was reading his article on EPSN Page 2 the other day, about Bill Murray and golf... and now I'm watching Ghostbusters on TBS... and now Hunter is dead! A ghost, in essence. Spooky. Goodbye to a pop culture icon. |
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fuck. |
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this is so very sad... I mean he was one of our generations greatest authors. I am just in shock. HUGE LOSS God Bless that man and all of hiss friends and family. |
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oh shit.. |
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Just heard on the news... gutted. This place is always a good port of call for breaking news. R.I.P, I love his writing. |
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Rest In Peace :(...We will miss ya Mr. Thompson. Truly and sincerely. |
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Its very sad... but I couldn't see him dying any other way, without it seeming wrong. RIP one of the remaining few literary icons that really mean anything. |
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requiescat in pace. a true american, for all that implied. (I'm not, btw) |
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: ( This is really sad, godspeed dude! |
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Fuck! god fucking damnit balls. It really pisses me off when I people I look up to kill themselves. =( R.I.P. man, you deserve it. |
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Yeah, this is a great man, he deserves the best. Changed the way I think. God Bless. |
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he wrote fear and loathing? well, his life was not meaningless then. RIP. |
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He lived 'fear and loathing', and his life was far from meaningless. |
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undoubtedly. |
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Sad indeed.. he appears in the film as well doesn't he? |
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do you mean as a cameo? in that case, possibly (have no idea really) but I do know that johnny depp played him in the film. |
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Yea at the part where JD says 'Oh look, there's me.." |
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"there i was, wait, there i am!" respect! |
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who was he ? |
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Was his numbr on PARIS HILTONS cellphone ? |
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Poo. I just finished "Kingdom of Fear", strangely apt. I wonder why he did himself in, about to be busted for something/scared of getting old/an accident with the gun that ended up looking like suicide? Looks like we'll be getting the 3rd/final volume of his letters in the next year or so? Odds on for the suicide note being the last letter in it? RIP Hunter. |
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." HST |
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bizarre. |
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Very sad. And somewhat dissapointing that he went out like that. |
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yea, this is not fun :( |
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That's a good quote, something that stays in my mind all the time. Thompson's death has had quite an effect on me as I've always looked up to him and thoroughly enjoyed his books and articles. Here's a short article I came across today that should make many people think [but may be too serious for XLT] Security by Hunter S. Thompson Security ... what does this word mean in relation to life as we know it today? For the most part, it means safety and freedom from worry. It is said to be the end that all men strive for; but is security a utopian goal or is it another word for rut? Let us visualize the secure man; and by this term, I mean a man who has settled for financial arid personal security for his goal in life. In general, he is a man who has pushed ambition and initiative aside and settled down, so to speak, in a boring, but safe and comfortable rut for the rest of his life. His future is but an extension of his present, and he accepts it as such with a complacent shrug of his shoulders. His ideas and ideals are those of society in general and he is accepted as a respectable, but average and prosaic man. But is he a man? has he any self-respect or pride in himself? How could he, when he has risked nothing and gained nothing? What does he think when he sees his youthful dreams of adventure, accomplishment, travel and romance buried under the cloak of conformity? How does he feel when he realizes that be has barely tasted the meal of life; when he sees the prison he has made for himself in pursuit of the almighty dollar? If he thinks this is all well and good, fine, but think of the tragedy of a man who has sacrificed his freedom on the altar of security, and wishes he could turn back the hands of time. A man is to be pitied who lacked the courage to accept the challenge of freedom and depart from the cushion of security and see life as it is instead of living it second-band. Life his by-passed this man and he has watched from a secure place, afraid to seek anything better What has he done |
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...except to sit and wait for the tomorrow which never comes? Turn back the pages of history and see the men who have shaped the destiny of the world. Security was never theirs, but they lived rather than existed. Where would the world he if all men had sought security and not taken risks or gambled with their lives on the chance that, if they won, life would be different and richer? It is from the bystanders (who are in the vast majority) that we receive the propaganda that life is not worth living, that life is drudgery, that the ambitions of youth must he laid aside for a life which is but a painful wait for death. These are the ones who squeeze what excitement they can from life out of the imaginations and experiences of others through books and movies. These are the insignificant and forgotten men who preach conformity because it is all they know. These are the men who dream at night of what could have been, but who wake at dawn to take their places at the now- familiar rut and to merely exist through another day. For them, the romance of life is long dead and they are forced to go through the years on a treadmill, cursing their existence, yet afraid to die because of the unknown which faces them after death. They lacked the only true courage: the kind which enables men to face the unknown regardless of the consequences. As an afterthought, it seems hardly proper to write of life without once mentioning happiness; so we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? |
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i can't belive i missed this! you people need to stop putting stuff in parenthezize!! sad news... |
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I read (in a newspaper, by Ralph Steadman), that Hunter was hardly able to walk (recently had 2 hip operations) and it was probably that that caused him to do himself in, "he hated to live that way" His funeral plans sound good though- ashes to be shot out of a 100M cannon in the shape of the "mescaline fist" :D |
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haha, oh man.. |
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Kinda Creepy RIP HST |
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why did you put that word "suicide" into bracketts ? is this term somehow specific ? |
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i happened to watch the bbc documentary from the 70's on him for the first time just after he died. he explains the concept of the gonzo fist shooting his ashes over his property, quite interesting. this can be found on the criterion edition of fear and loathing. i'm glad they're going through with it. |
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"shot himself to death" sounds like he eventually died after repeatedly shooting himself. I no longer have a brain. |
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They're gonna have his ashes shot out of a cannon. This was always my second choice if my loved ones cannot arrange a proper viking funeral. |
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