Hunter S. Thompson Commits Suicide
From today's
NY Times. Truely sad.
Hunter S. Thompson, the maverick journalist and author whose savage chronicling of the underbelly of American life and politics embodied a new kind of nonfiction writing he called "gonzo journalism," died yesterday in Colorado. Tricia Louthis, of the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office, said Mr. Thompson had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Woody Creek, Colo., yesterday afternoon. He was 65.
Does anyone know why he did it?
Does anyone know why he did it?
Maybe he was in unbelievable pain. Psychic or physical or both. A lot of suicides are really angry, too. It's the best way to say "screw you" to someone. Not the smartest way, but certainly the most effective. :(
It's the best way to say "screw you" to someone.
Right...
This time next week he'll be forgotten the same as just about everybody else.
Well, he certainly
wasn't happy about the way the country was going.
I can't blame him for that, but killing yourself is a little extreme.
That's what I'm saying.
I fully respect a person's right to snuff themselves, but did he have a reason?
The man woke up, snorted coke and smoked a joint. He was famous for violent mood swings. Like a lot of brilliant people he danced all over the edge, particularly considering the impressive substance abuse it was a matter of time. If I was half as capable as Thompson of nailing shit perfectly so often and with such flair and so unable to do something major about it I'd have blown my brains out by now too.
Was he bipolar? His talent has Kinda that ol' bipolar ring to it. Anyone know?
With all the rich, powerful enemies he had I wouldn't be surprised if he was murdered. :eyebrow:
I think it was a delayed grief response to the death of one of his peacocks last summer. Apparently, a fox or something got it. My sister was up in Aspen for the summer and had rented a condo in the vicinity of Mr. Thompson's residence. She jogs every morning and one day she came across the remains of one of Mr. Thompson's birds on the jogging trail that passes near the edge of the former Mr. Thompson's digs. She told her son (my nephew) about it, and the kid went down there and grabbed the dead bird and plucked every feather he could that was still in reasonable shape. No doubt my nephew will soon be offering these priceless momentos for sale on e-bay!
Terribly sad. A great loss
"A drug person can learn to handle such things as seeing their dead grandmother crawling up their leg with a knife in her teeth. But no one should be asked to deal with this trip."
seems more fitting
that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. 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.
Anybody come up with an excuse for him yet?
Well that didn't say anything.
Barring any evidence to the contrary it seems the paragon of paranoid gonzo reporting went out with a wimper instead of a bang.
I doubt that he thought to use a silencer ...
Just thought of a really important question ...
Is G.B. Trudeau going to kill off Uncle Duke?
I doubt that he thought to use a silencer ...
Like I said over on the Reason comment blog, running down the halls of congress with a mini-nuke on his back would have been going out with a bang. Swallowing a chunk of lead is just weak.
found this on doonesbury.com
"A lot of people want to grow up to be firemen and President. But nobody wants to grow up to be a cartoon character."
-- Hunter S. Thompson
Sounds like they are trying to Spin this a little to me.
Especially when...
"Family members had no hint that Thompson planned to take his own life, Brinkley said, and he did not leave a note. "There was no farewell salutation,' he said."
Here is an interesting article quoting his wife heavily about his last hours.
That article sounds...weird. It makes her sound weird.
It makes her sound weird.
that reminds me of a guy's response when his SO asks if "these jeans make my a*s look fat?" without missing a beat he responds, "no, the fat on your a*s makes you look fat"
all i'm saying is that maybe she really is a little nutty. or selfmedicated. or both.
It makes her sound weird.
Uh...well...she was married to Hunter S. Thompson. I 'spect she is. ;)
Anita Thompson also echoes the comments that have been made by Hunter Thompson's son and daughter-in-law: That her husband's suicide did not come from the bottom of the well, but was a gesture of strength and ultimate control made as his life was at a high-water mark.
So what they're saying is that HT's life was like the final season of M.A.S.H?
I don't have much to say about that other than having watched my wife take care of her father in his final two years in Parkinsons, I can possibly understand the motivation for someone with that disease or something like terminal bone cancer to spare themselves the final months or weeks. I heard John Wayne thought about it However, by all accounts the man was in good health.
Saying to oneself "this is as good as my life is ever going to get, so it's all downhill from here" sounds like really bad reason for suicide.
I think Dennis Leary said it best -
Do not mention FIRE IN THE BELLY. Do not clutch your copy of IRON JOHN. Sit your soft little ass down and listen up. Understanding macho means that you don't possess it. I have proven myself to be the pussy that I am by writing this piece. (I'm wearing a powder blue cotton print shirt and peach panties as I type) [sic] Ernest Hemingway, you say? Wrong. Ernest lived a very macho life and wrote some very macho stories. But Ernest threw it all away by blowing his head off with a shotgun. Very unmacho. Real men do not commit suicide. Real men know just how much life sucks. Real men grit their teeth and take it bill after bill, war after war, tumor after tumor. You don't greet Death, you punch him in the throat repeatedly as he drags you away. I think John Wayne said it best when he said, "Fuck Death and the lung cancer he rode in on."
BTW, I heard that John Wayne did contemplate suicide while he had cancer but either changed his mind or was prevented from doing so (I don't think a nurse has to be a genius to not let the terminal cancer patient have a gun).
One of the really nice rules of nature is that in most cases, really awful stuff is stuff that kills you. Almost everything else you can get over.
This whole 'killing oneself because this is as good as life gets' implies some kind of psychic ability to absolutely know what will be coming next. That's bullshit. Rodney Dangerfield was a paint salesman until he was 42 and didn't star in his first film until he was almost 60. Should he have picked up a gun and shot himself after his divorce at 41?
I appreciated everything that HT stood for, but if his suicide is his last piece of 'gonzo' performance art, then I'm not buying it.
Possibly your best post ever Rich. Thanks for saying it.
I agree, UT. Great post, rich. Equating a suicide as a gesture of strength and control? Somebody's living in DelusionLand. If he was surrounded by people like his wife maybe it DID seem like a good idea. Who knows what all they romanticized? Who was that author/actor that threw himself off the ferry in NYC a few years ago?
Bullshit...your telling me I can't leave if I don't like the movie? I don't think so...mind your own damn business. :p
IMO, one of the reasons that religions had to make suicide a sin was because they pushed the concept of heaven so hard. They told a large group of people who in many case had really hard, crappy lives that if they did what they were told that they would live in paradise when they died. Well, if you're living in Europe in the dark ages and really believe this, then of course the ones who believed this would ask themselves "what am I waiting for". This means that the organized religion would lose it's most gullible....er....devout followers without any benefit to the organization. It's one thing to have someone martyr themselves or die as a soldier or suicide bomber for the organization, but plain suicide does not offer any benefits back to the group while causing attrition among the most ardent supporters. Hence, martyrdom is applauded and suicide becomes a sin.
Too cynical?
Not too cynical, rich, but you don't have to be a peasant in the Dark Ages to want to kill yourself--today's world suffices just fine. I understand what you are saying and all but I am thinking less globally and more locally. The people close to a suicide are left with immeasurable guilt and grief. If children are involved, even more so. Suicides have a nasty habit of inspiring MORE suicides. Kids imitate parents, etc. Nasty business. You can leave the movie IF no one loves/knows/depends on you. So, Bruce, that leaves you out.
Bullshit...your telling me I can't leave if I don't like the movie? I don't think so...mind your own damn business. :p
Ok, but I get all of your doodads.
The people close to a suicide are left with immeasurable guilt and grief.
No logical reason for me to feel guilty about someone offing themselves.
Grief, certainly. If they'd gotten run over by a bus I suppose then you have the bus to focus your anger at and I believe anger is one part of greiving. It's hard to direct your anger at the deceased so I guess that leaves yourself, in a suicide. But if you use your head for something besides a hatrack you'll so realize that's not rational.....unless you're an MBA. ;)
When you've been actively working to save the person, yes, there is a lot of guilt for the survivors.
No logical reason for me to feel guilty about someone offing themselves.
Probably not, in most cases. However, the emotions which arise out of the death of a loved one or even just an acquaintance, by definition, have no basis in logic. The distance from the head to the heart and all that.
As far as suicide in the dark ages, I imagine that the conditions people lived under resolved the question for them more often than not.
When you've been actively working to save the person, yes, there is a lot of guilt for the survivors.
Shouldn't be. Maybe if you hadn't tried but certainly not when "you've been actively working to save the person". :headshake
Probably not, in most cases. However, the emotions which arise out of the death of a loved one or even just an acquaintance, by definition, have no basis in logic. The distance from the head to the heart and all that.
Don't confuse guilt and grief, it's an easy mistake to make. No, they are two different animals. ;)
As far as suicide in the dark ages, I imagine that the conditions people lived under resolved the question for them more often than not.
And with sudden death, unexplained by anything more that "something evil" being commonplace, probably many suicides were undetected.
Body fished out of the river....accident?.....murder?....suicide?
I was just sent an article that says, and may have been in one of the articles here already, that he killed himself while he was on the phone with his wife and the kids were in the other room. Any takers?
When he gets back on I'll add the link to the article.
I never fully understood Gonzo journalism after reading so many of his books. And yet The Economist (rather interesting that it took his death to better appreciate his life) provided a rather good summary of who Hunter Thompson was.
from The Economist
In 1964 he had made a long journey to Ketchum, Idaho, to the grave of Ernest Hemingway, one of his models and heroes. He wanted to understand why Hemingway had killed himself in his cabin in the woods, and concluded that he had lost his sense of control in a changing world:
It is not just a writer's crisis, but they are the most obvious victims because the function of art is supposedly to bring order out of chaos, a tall order even when the chaos is static, and a superhuman task when chaos is multiplying...So finally, and for what he must have thought the best of reasons, he ended it with a shotgun.
the above: What A Bunch O' Crap.
Lost my control in an ever-changing world---christ. What a load.
Toldya he looks just like plthijinx
Well that didn't say anything.
Barring any evidence to the contrary it seems the paragon of paranoid gonzo reporting went out with a wimper instead of a bang.
I have to say I'm incredibly disappointed;the second I found out he took his own life,any respect I might have had for him went right out the window.
Good to see the economist gets it, you can see it in his writing over the years. If anything, I respect him more for having the balls to pull the trigger, least he ended things on his own terms.
No he didn't.
He ended up just being weak.
On his own terms would have been pissing off enough people that a lynch mob showed up at his door and having an audience for his parting shot.
I doubt he could have said things more bluntly than he did. He attracted controversy but I don't think he actively courted it, he was just himself.
Barring a convincing video auto-epitaph I think we're going to have to agree to disagree.
*shrugs* I don't claim to be exactly unbiased, Hunter is something little short of a role model where I'm concerned.
And on my side is a close uncle of mine killing himself with a pistol. *shrugs*
Like I said, I'm rig..., I mean yeah, let's agree to disagree. :)
i just heard hst killed himself today, Obviously their was a motive for it other then giving up, Hunter was himself and more of a role model then any person ive ever seen on tv, He was a dope fiend to the extents that his subcontious was ignorant, had he been a lesser man he would of been diagnoised with bipolar disease and given medication to make him better, but no peanuts man thats the 1 thing thats good for you, why not anything worth doing were going to be doing right
This thread was started about 7 months and low and behold you just got the word today and took his nick name? Why not just follow your star and do the world a favor?
This thread was started about 7 months and low and behold you just got the word today and took his nick name? Why not just follow your star and do the world a favor?
HAHAHAHAH!
Plus, I bet your hero would kick yore ass for yer shity speling to!
jesus terrible vibrations in this place, was their no communication in this server or have we sunken to the level of dumb beasts, I have been following his work for about a year and heard he was dead a few months ago and heard he killed himself yesterday, gonzo is truly being true to urself with no regrets all the time of course trying to be someone else would be worthy of your manners, sorry i dont have what it takes to speak about all ur political problems on a level that makes me look smart cause i have always been stupid anyways, im just some kid with the soul of a teenage girl trapped inside some emotional nazi. i mean HST was a great journalist who was trying to do the world a favour so i would give your thanks if anything.
Um, yeah, makes sense to me...
What's an emotional nazi? A soup nazi won't give you soup, a grammar nazi is something you should probably hire, what does an emotional nazi do?
an emonazi? an emo nazi no few people understand the psycology of a monkey most people will immediatley pull over to the side this is wrong arouses contempt in ur heart, make the bastard chase you, he will follow.
I don't get it, what's this guy saying, I read and read but my eyes just glaze over. X_X
[butthead] hehe. he said "monkey" [/butthead]
Well you know (toking), maybe this guy is more true-to-life than we are giving him credit for. If we think about it, maybe HST hasn't noticed he was dead yet either? Hmmm?
1 vote from Tonchi. for. next up?
Hunter S. Thompson always struck me as the kind of man that never performed an unintentioned act in his life, drunk or sober. I am pretty sure he knows he's dead.
I dont even know what you guys are talking about hunter s thompson killed himself we were just talking about that for like 2 days i should call the cops get you put in a mental institution. what the hell did that girl do to you, Everybody must get stoned so we wouldnt feel so all alone hows does it feel to be on ur own with no direction home like a rolling stoooone
Wow, he almost makes me yearn for the return of Angus.
What a 'tard.
I don't think you can lump Angus and gonzo there in the same group. Angus was hysterically funny, in the way your condescending butler is funny; gonzo is just stupid and listening to Dylan. I get a contact buzz just from reading his posts. Yay for me!
Anyone watch the Dylan documentary on PBS this past Monday and Tuesday? It was pretty good.
its time for a difficult relook at this whole situation, your fired awful jackasses, i never wanna see you again
I'd be terribly surprised if you could actually see me if I was standing directly in front of you.
troubleshooter what you just said made absolutly no sense i award you 0 points and may god have mercy on your soul uuum no sympathy for the devil keep that in mind
Sounds like the pot calling the grass green.
i should call the cops get you put in a mental institution.
Dear child, that's my JOB. I have a get out of jail free card.
It's more than a job, wolf, it's a state of mind.
Anyone watch the Dylan documentary on PBS this past Monday and Tuesday? It was pretty good.
Yeah. I watched them both. They were good. I never saw much of Bob Dylan before. Mostly just photos and listened to his music.
Seeing the old film footage of him was interesting. He is a strange chap. The interview with today's Joan Baez was great! I left the documentary just loving her. She is so smart and has such a wonderful perspective on him and the whole 60s scene. I loved her story about how she stole a song he had just written while he was passed out and his reaction when he heard it on the radio a while later. Good stuff.
Joan Baez's "Diamonds and Rust", written about the end of her relationship with Dylan. Check it out, it's hauntingly beautiful, and you'll see where some of the melody lines from Granddaddy's song about the "Beautiful Ground" came from.
"Diamonds and Rust" - now there was a great album. Hadn't thought of it in years. I was up in Telluride a couple of years back, snooping around in the over-priced tourist shops there. One place was all about incredibly expensive shoes and boots. The proprietor proudly showed me a length of turquoise dyed alligator skin that he said was going to be made into a pair of smoke jumper boots for THE Bob Dylan!
I flashed on the deaths of 14 kids from a small town in California who had been smoke jumpers and died fighting a forest fire outside Glenwood Springs some years back. The Forest Service doesn't provide smoke jumper boots for its seasonal employees which is what these kids were. They had to go out and buy their own White's brand smoke jumper boots which back in the day used to run around $140.00 a pair. Don't know what they cost now. The kids bought those boots out of their seasonal's pay and died in them.
For some reason, those alligator skin smoke jumper boots seemed faintly obscene to me.
Suicide outranks homicide as cause of death in most regions of the globe. Depression(usually undiagnosed and or untreated) being one of if not the leading cause of suicide. If this was the reason for Mr Thompsons unfortunate demise than it really was'nt a concious(sis out) decision that he made. Leaving depression untreated is a very bad decision, suicide though I really cant say.
suicide actually happens more after treatment. Once they begin on an antidepressant, then they have more energy and therefore are more likely to kill themselves.
HST was an expert on the ups and downs of drugs. Ive been reading Fear and Loathing in America and if i could remember some of the phrases i underlined im sure i could come up with something a little more worthy but if he did kill himself i think it must have been to prove some kind of gonzo point to his real fans, Maybe he was depressed but who isnt depressed almost half the time these days anyways, I am sure he wouldnt kill himself cause he was crying himself to sleep, After all hes gone through hes not one to kill himself cause he was paranoid and couldnt take it anymore. all anymore, He definitley lived his life to its full extent. He could write genius letters off the top of his head drunk and stoned at 5 in the morning better then any hyped up coffee journalist with 3 editors could in a day. Maybe he was dealing with health issues and maybe they were because of all his drug use but i can gurantee you he did not kill himself like a scared crying baby who wants everyone to feel sorry for him, His mindset was more real then any TV show or movie character and if you are young enough to realize the mentallity of this generation you should go buy one of his books right now and better yourself and your knowledge of the real political/social and paranoid animosity you are going to deal with in your lifetime.
He could write genius letters off the top of his head drunk and stoned at 5 in the morning.....
Who can't? :lol:
Kid, anyone who's jacked up on drugs is gonna adore "fear and loathing. "35 - half way there." Yeah, well wrong again old Gonzo Guy. I wasn't 35 yet when I read that and I doubt if you'd even been born. Punk, you don't even have the TIME to throw more paranoid social/political animosity at me than I've ever seen in my lifetime.
Frankly, who gives a damn what Hunter S Thompson's state of mind was when he died? He's still dead.
It takes guts to be an old person and take on the young gang bangers. You wanna make a hero out of someone who took the easy way out, be my guest. But don't expect me to lay awake nights wondering what the wussie-boys in your generation might be up to. I'm old and need my sleep. :eyebrow:
nice easy answer bruce, maybe you should read and understand why hes famous and then ask yourself that
lady, well thanks for proving my point punkbia who are you angry at, I admit i probably havent done nearly half as hard or as much drugs as you in my lifetime, but we probably both take things personaly very much alike. All i think you can take from hst is his humor his political understanding and most importantly the way he went about his business from day to day, im sure your quite educated on the subject of the elderly in urban enviroments and who knows maybe your late husband was run down on the streets by a mob of angry black rappers who thought he must of been obviously racist at least at one time, as for us wussieboys we could care less of what you think about at night in your classic pretty nightgown as you fade into rem and subcontiously dream about the good old days when we all thought what we were doing was right and deal with the muddy water you took advantage of back in those good old days of woodstock and lsd and living for the moment.
nice easy answer bruce, maybe you should read and understand why hes famous and then ask yourself that
gonzo, HST and I are of the same generation. I've been aware of the man's writings and career from the Hell's Angels days.
I've always admired his ability to make his point on paper, clearly and succinctly, but that doesn't mean I always agreed with him.....It may have depended on whether I was more or less, stoned and drunk, when I read it than he was when he wrote it.
I've had a number of friends that worshipped him, as you clearly do, but I'm not in that camp. Respect is the best I can muster for a human..... at least a male human being. :lol:
for my two cents-I don't think HST was a genius. He was good in his way, but let's reserve the term genius for those who really are. Sylvia Plath, now there was a genius. AND! For added interest, she, too, offed herself! What's with all this offing of ones self? And why do so many talented people do it? Personally, I'd be scared to do it. I mean, what if the Catholic's ARE right and you DO go to hell for it? That would kinda ruin the whole reason why you did it.
Lots of incompetant jerks off themselves, too, Brianna. They just aren't featured on the 5:00 news. Frankly, I'm not too worried about a Catholic God. If that's who is running the show, I'm going to hell, anyhow. I stick around in the laughable hope that someday things may get better and because I'm a masochist. ;)
its 6:12am and i just threw up and got another beer, I never read the hells angels book or the rum diaries but i am sure there greatly educatonial. Although his methods and lifestyle are frowned upon by many his individulaismn was of the highest quality compared to pretty much anywhere at anytime.
gonzo-even *I* would quit drinking after I puked. Puking is a sign, dude, a sign to quit.
I wish you luck. You're going to need it.
Gonzo, the writings of Hunter S. Thompson are not a free pass to be an alcoholic. I'll grant that Hunter was a gifted writer who struck a chord with his times. The success of his books and the fact that he was still able to write in a drug and alcohol induced haze allowed him to run with his addictions far long than most people would have been able to. But he was the exception, not the rule. You're young yet. Get into AA while you still have a life left to save.
Im araid i cant do that, thats exactly what they want me to do trap me in a scared akward room and tell me im weird, i might as well join the army if thats the case. I need regular doses of alcohol and marijuana to counter act the medication that they give to me otherwise i might as well just be stoned for ever
Ok, I'll bite chucklehead, what awful medications are you supposedly prescribed?
I need regular doses of alcohol and marijuana to counter act the medication that they give to me otherwise i might as well just be stoned for ever
Oh, fer the love of..! If I had a nickle for every time some nut case gave me that song and dance bullshit..! Grow up! Take your meds, and quit thinking you're the next Dylan Thomas!
OK, "Gonzo", so when did you decide to make us your Sociology term paper project? Aren't you through writing it yet? Well hurry up and finish then, because your game is getting boring. The strain of having to pretend to be a stoner is beginning to show through the BS :turd:
animal house:
from
here
You're a goddamned disgrace
fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Were all friends here man, im still a very big fan of this place even though the recent discourtisies towards my personal self, i dunno whats ur guys problem is, and the medication doesnt really matter its just in there somewhere, you guys are assholes anyways, omg like why are people so stupid why cant you guys just let lindsay lohan live her life, were so lucky to have plinjinx making fun of me on here now we have the privilage of listening to that tub of lard all day long...... if i were him id walk my fat ass right into oncomming traffic. but im sorry will you still be my friends come over and see the rural life outside of your freakworld, i will take you for a ride on my motorcycle.
, i will take you for a ride on my motorcycle.
Not until you sober up.
More BS. If he WERE getting serious meds the doctor is required to report to the DMV that he is not able to safely operate a vehicle and they pull your license. Catch you after that and they pull the whole car, bike, or whatever he thinks he is flying at the time.
dude, know humor when you see/read it. fat? yeah, 5'9" and 165. stupid? yeah, they only give commercial pilot licenses to dumbasses. get off your high horse and pick up your young inexperienced self and live like you've got a pair. oh, and by the way, i used to race supercross when i was your age.
You get what you give, Gonzo, and Cellurites are superb at catching insults in mid air and sending them right back without even blinking an eye or a hair out of place.
Maybe Hunter killed himself because too many young punks who wouldn't know fear and loathing if it hit them between the eyes were sounding off in his name. No doubt, you'll be getting a call from a legal firm in Samoa soon about an anti-defamation suit that's pending against you.
This ain't no nursery school where you can punch the kid next to you and run whining to Mommy that he "hit me first."
Grow up, sober up, and learn to spell at least as well as I do (lowering the bar considerably for you on this last).
Respond like an intelligent adult with a sense of humor, or else stop whining about the responses you receive.
I'll even go so far as translating the above post for ya. Fuck off dude.
oh, and get your pathetic ass off of this domain gonzo. you are not welcome anymore.
Now, now.....you kids play nice.
You shouldn't pick on the retarded child, he's one of God's "special children". You've probably driven by his school. It's the one with the yellow sign that say "SLOW CHILDREN". :lol:
aww sorry i diditn realize you were joking philijinx, you are all pretty good at insults though eh dont flatter yourself or i might break your hips, I dunno why people who knew of Hst long before me and probably even grew up with him get so angry over nothing, No matter how smart you like to think you are your all 20% nature and 80% and when an apple falls from a tree and grows up in a field of shit it doesnt have a choice its going to grow into a shitapple tree just like you guys
Well, now, that's just mean!
threats over the internet. now that takes class.
ignore list.
I like knuckleheads like this. They give us the opportunity to hone true insults without drawing blood from anyone by accident.
please what are you people crazy? tv lsd 2005 hst suicide fuck you, fuck your offices with all your mean nasty perverted sad losers, Im going to practice my driving on the prarie a half hour ride from here, once you get the cows running changing lanes becomes second nature but the bulls are different you have to calmy gear up with no mistakes or you will be rammed to shit.
I'm impressed by your ability to spell fuck correctly.
But did you mean "offices" or "orifices?"
Also, you missed an "I" in praIrie.
I'm impressed by your ability to spell fuck correctly.
But did you mean "offices" or "orifices?"
Also, you missed an "I" in praIrie.
Actually, I find his misspellings very creattive and interesting. This guy could probably write his own 'dicshunary'.
:p
I like "calmy." Actually the technique is to slowly accelerate through the herd of cows (and any bulls). Sometimes a calf will be stupid and keep running in front of your car. This a favorable omen portending veal cutlets for dinner. :yum:
I find a motor or dirt bike is a much more relaxing experience when learning to drive on the praries inbetween cows and such of course i first heard of that trip in a HST book ive never been interested in reading what people think but i dunno when hst writes it always seems like a hot ticket, why not, anything worth doing were going to be doing right but only for those with true grit.
Broaden your horizons and read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. Report back to us when you've mastered it. :cool:
Man, I need to keep up more.
I saw this thread a while back and then didn't see it anymore. Then, it cropped up again on the new post screen and I'm thinking: How many times is this dude gonna off himself already?
anything worth doing were going to be doing right but only for those with true grit.
Except writing? :eyebrow:
Man, I need to keep up more.
I saw this thread a while back and then didn't see it anymore. Then, it cropped up again on the new post screen and I'm thinking: How many times is this dude gonna off himself already?
Yeah, I had no idea that Undertoad has a masochistic streak and wouldn't just put this sick puppy out of his misery.
Except writing? :eyebrow:
When teaching a stone, one must be mindful that even the wisest teacher may unwittingly become the student.
as the saying goes
" never argue with an idiot ,
they will drag you down to their level ,
and beat you with experence "
Yeah, I had no idea that Undertoad has a masochistic streak and wouldn't just put this sick puppy out of his misery.
Entertainment value......plus lurkers see this and say, hell, I can do better than that. :D
I turned off gonzo's email notification for the thread. That should do it.
You are very, very smart.
hunter s thompson man why not you were perfect but killing yourself leaves no answers for your fans so if you got murderd then i truly have gone mad and paranoid feel the way the shit clings to the air, shit winds are a coming
with an I.V. of Jägermeister
Gonzo's on enough substances, already. Or so he claims. :eyebrow:
true. i only see that he's posted something, thanks to ignore, i'm just surprised that he still comes back for more. hmm. maybe an attention whore like the others in the past. UT, maybe, just maybe this thread should be obliterated? or better yet a ban on his IP?
I don't see a problem unless he starts thread hopping and being a pain in the ass. He seems to be fixated on HLT and needs to blow off once in a while. :neutral:
true. i only see that he's posted something,...
I don't know why anyone is upset. But then, I don't understand what he posted. Can someone translate into readable English?
My guess is: Why, Hunter? You were perfect! If you killed yourself, your fans are left without answers. Maybe you were murdered, but I suppose that thought is just me being paranoid.
Then Gonzo tries to make some poetic allusion to shit.
Just a theory. :cool:
Oh, yeah. I don't know about anyone else, but its mildly annoying to keeping seeing this ancient thread re-surfacing thanks to Gonzo. If Gonzo wanted to discuss Hunter's work intelligently down in Creative Expression or his own substance abuse problem down in the Health Forum, it might be a bit more tolerable.
oh, I found this thread. It amused me.
might change username to monster111 or mnstrdgr :D
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
(couldn't agree more)
might change username to monster111 or mnstrdgr :D
That's too close to mine. I'd be financially harmed.
And I'd sue, too.:p:
We can all change names. Sue Gravdigr has a nice ring to it
Whaddaya know? A Gravdigr Named Sue.
Now we've dragged Johnny Cash into it.