Monday Feb 21, 2005

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I find it incredibly hard to believe that Hunter commited suicide. There's no way that someone with that kind of vitality would just off himself. We are missing some bit of truth in this matter that may never be recovered.

Whatever the circumstances, one of my most beloved icons/heros is dead and/or gone. I had a fantasy of showing up at his compound and introducing myself as a rabid fan... then making him a batch of proper southern biscuits n' gravy as a show of good will.

Piffle.

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james88:
It's so sad that a guy like Hunter saw this country through some of its most despicable times and brought humor out of such a crappy political situation. What does it say about the times we live in now that such a cool character decided to check out right now?

He was a rare breed and I will miss him.
keithyboy20:
I heard a funny story about Hunter on the radio like the morning after he died. Apparently there's this bar next to his land in Michigan and if you went past the bar you were on HIS land and cars that drove by the bar would get their headlights shot out by Hunter. So eventually the owners of the bar told him if he wanted to be able to keep going into the bar, he had to promise not to shoot out peoples headlights anymore. So if you go in this bar on the wall there's a napkin saying "I, Hunter S. Thompson, do here by promise not to shoot out peoples headlights anymore."

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