smutmutant mourns the death of this gonzo (not porn) genius

DENVER - Hunter S. Thompson, the hard-living writer who inserted himself into his accounts of America’s underbelly and popularized a first-person form of journalism in books such as “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” has committed suicide.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7005168/?GT1=6190

It's a sad day for American literature. "Gonzo" journalism, anyone relate gonzo to something else? hah

I liked his Hell's Angels book

It'd interesting to read the suicide letter.

Hunter S Thompson was the shit.

i cried when i found out. since a young age when my mother gave me a stack of HST books he was one of my lifelong heroes, and will be missed.

im running out of heroes

if anyone can finds his suicide note online let me know, i want to read it.

It makes tomorrow night a little more bittersweet for me. its my offical falling off the wagon night. 4 months of sobriety are going to come screeching to a halt, and then stumble down the road in a slobbering stupor. im gonna use my chip to play quarters with.
ill raise a glass of rum to hunter in rememberance.... whos got the ether?

"I hate to advocate alcoholism, drug abuse, bizarre sex,
and insanity, but they've always worked for me!" Hunter S. Thompson

He has certainly not been the best influence on me, but he is brilliant.

It IS true though that in the past few years he lost his classic edge. His older stuff was brilliant.

allthough this is classic:

The family is looking into whether Thompson's cremated remains can be blasted out of a cannon, a wish the gun-loving writer often expressed, Brinkley said.

"The optimal, best-case scenario is the ashes will be shot out of a cannon," he said.

yeah, his political stuff over the last 20 years has been total crap, but the cannon thig would be cool.

I've read a number of his books and have always been a fan. I think the lack of commemoration to his career as a stoned out writer is unfortunate. And that movie didn't help.

The circumstances surrounding his suicide, which I've recently learned, have done a great deal to lower my opinion of him.

I was disappointed to see that the "suicide note" was just an unfinshed letter to a lawyer, but it still leaves you...
and that's cool.