Hunter S. Thompson

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/10951488.htm?1c

****

Joe M.

 

Or more generally and without registration:
http://news.google.com/news?q=thompson+hunter

Yup.

-----sharks

 

Mate,

You no longer have to....


www.bugmenot.com


BF
(purveyor of all things internet)

 

~
..005 seconds on Google could've answered that, Smee!

He was a journo who liked to "live" the story and immersed himself in what
he was writing about (including the Vietnam War, the Hell's Angles and
various outlaw drug subcultures).
He also did a fair bit of political "reporting".
In his later years he was famously grumpy and reclusive.
He's most known for writing "Fear and loathing in Las Vegas' and for
inventing (or epitomising) the stupid descriptive "Gonzo Journalism".
I don't know anything about him I just heard all this stuff on TripleJ
today.
Clem

 

I'm showing my ignorance here but who was he??

yer WHAT??

Good Lord!!

Great Scott!!

Gives up...goes back to cave.

 

What are you on about? He did it. Where is the note? Or are we to take
his entire portfolio as his testament?

The bastard. How are we to survive four more wars without the king of
gonzo?

Gary

 

Ignorance is hardly the word. Where have you been for the last 40
years? He is the guy who invented "fear and loathing".

Something on topic from the good doctor:
http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html

And here is the creature:
http://www.gonzo.org/pics/hstssc.html

(Big, your link came up tops on Google, but I had a 404)

Gary

 

Grrr... I knew about that, but had forgotten to do anything about it...

fixing it now...

big

 

Ha ha! HST dropped you right in it!

Gary

 

Ah, fine, fine, a wonderful piece of writing. Was one of my
favorite sigs back when I used to have sigs more often than
I do now. And I hope someone does carve his epitaph appropriately.

-----sharks

 

I also like:

http://www.mightymedia.com.au/~bigiain/ausmoto/stories/midnight.html

big

 

Got beaten up by Sonny Barger's mates while Sonny watched.

I don't understand why it's 'sad to hear'. I didn't know the guy, don't want
to know him, to me no different from the other 357,289 people who I didn't
know who also died today. I don't feel sadness (or glee) for any of them.

Theo
Callous uncaring prick.

 

"I wouldn't recommend overpowered red twins to everyone, but they've
always worked for me." (paraphrased by me)

"He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close
as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed
generation." (of Muhammad Ali)

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only
people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
(from "Midnight", linked up-thread, I think this was a postscript to
"Hells Angels")

Gary

 

~~~

Hell's Angles? That's rather obtuse, Clem!

 

Errrmmm, I suspect Sharkey was refering to the last line of Song of the
Sausage Creature. (as per my .sig)

big

 

Acute way to spell it?
Yeah I spotted that but then I saw a shiny thing and forgot again.. (I'll
claim I did it to avoid breaching copyright... They're pretty litigious
ya' know!)
Clem

 

Right on!

-----sharks (had to ride 300km home today ... well, not sure about
the 'had to' ...)

 

DOn't kow anything about him? He only wrote what is just about the most
emotive description of fanging ever to be published. Check out the last
chapter of "Hell's Angels". Incredible bit of writing, and somes up the "red
mist" perfectly.

MIKE

 

A dog with a puffy tail!
Heeheeheehee!
Here Puff...here Puff!

Postman Pat