Hunter S Thompson Dead.

I'm with Tman, Sam, and Petejoe on this one.

How's this:
Hunter S. Thompson's suicide might make a bigger "splash" than Sapulding Gray's.

 

There was no point in fighting -- on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark -- the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

I'll miss the good doctor, I grew up reading Hunter and Jack Kerouac. Jack drank himself to death and now Hunter sticks one in his brain.

I was walking thru the bar that I've just just finished constructing for a friend of mine yesterday looking around admiring our handwork, our craftmanship and one phrase came to mind.

"When the going gets weird, the Weird turn Pro" - HST

 

If you disliked the guy or don't understand why any of us would care, then don't post. Do not preach to me who I should or shouldn't admire, or why.

Thompson wrote far more about politics and questioning leadership than drugs or alcohol. I saw him speak in Toronto in the mid-80s, and he would not discuss Fear and Loathing, he only wanted to talk about football and politics.

So long, Uncle Duke.

 

There's no relevence to hotrods and customs, but I think it's pretty sad if you just shrug your shoulders at the news of somebody's death, whatever the cir***stances.

As someone has already mentioned, he was creative and a trailblazer, that's a good enough reason for him to be included here in my eyes.

 

I thought Germ was dead?

 

sad some of the comments here.

hunter thompson was much more than a drug addict. the drugs etc. was a tool he used to get through to young lost minds like myself, and turn them on politically. it worked. he did drugs, but was not the dope fiend he led one to believe from some of his writings.

this is much more than the death of a man, this is a nail in the coffin of the american dream, when hunter thompson loses hope in the world, why should i have hope that things will get better?