Hunter S. Thompson's Remains to be Shot Out of Cannon

[Bartleby]

res ipsa loquitur

 

[cgannon64]

"Hunter S. Thompson elicits the same kind of admiration one would feel for a streaker at Queen Victoria's funeral".

[William F. Buckley, New York Times Book Review.]

William F. Buckley could kick Hunter S. Thompson's ass any day of the week. I friggin love that guy.

EDIT: "He said things themselves"?

 

[punkbass2000]

I'm a fan too at least of Fear and Loathing... I find it really hard to sit down and read fiction (though in this case I guess some of it wasn't fiction ). Personally I found his anti-heroism refreshing. A nice counter to all the usual BS. The man had a real sense of adventure, and that's what I loved above everything else. Fear and Loathing really was a crazy adventure, kind of reminding me in a way of Petronius Arbiter's "Satyricon" with the two main characters wandering through ancient cities and having these crazy decadent adventures (check out Fellini's "Satyricon" for a far out film be warned it's pretty strange though)

Hunter did awesome sports columns for ESPN too, and I always loved reading them. ESPN had another really good writer doing columns also, Ralph Wiley R.I.P. who died of heart attack at the age of 50 or something like 8 months ago.... I really loved reading these guys' columns. They really weren't your average sportswriters



yeah, he talks about how there was a split within that spirit of counter-culture, something between the tough working class Bikers and the middle class hippies which broke the potential unity of the counterculture, or something like that... it's a real philosophical moment in the book

Wait, wait... you like this trash??

 

[Bozo Erectus]

If he wants his ashes to be blown out of a cannon, then who am I to stand in his way?

If you were to stand in his way, youd be covered from head to toe in Gonzo ashes when the cannon went off. Wear goggles.

 

[jonatas]

Wait, wait... you like this trash??

You thought you had me figured out ?

really, I'm not big on reading fiction, in fact Fear and Loathing was probably one of the last works of fiction I read. A couple of years ago I was taking care of a friend's house out in the middle of nowhere and he had a nice library. It was a fun story. I could really relate to it somehow I like big sprawling adventures like that.

 

[punkbass2000]

Yeah, I know what you mean, I can't stand most fiction. I recently read Slaughterhouse Five, and I wasn't too impressed. It was OK, the parts involving the the aliens were interesting, but all in all it wasn't gripping.

 

[jonatas]

Yeah, I know what you mean, I can't stand most fiction. I recently read Slaughterhouse Five, and I wasn't too impressed. It was OK, the parts involving the the aliens were interesting, but all in all it wasn't gripping.

Hmmm, for some reason I picture you as the type of person who likes Robert Anton Wilson.... I don't know how accurate that is, or if you know of him. He wrote a book called the "Illuminatus Trilogy" which you might enjoy. It's all about Eastern philosophy, Adam Weishaupt, the mystical significance of the number 23, secret societies etc... and it's a really, really crazy story. It has something of cult stature to it. He hung with Timothy Leary, and he also wrote a book called "Schrodinger's Cat" so you can be assured it's a mind bending experience to say the least....

 

[IglooDame]

He's the only person I know of that could come up with shotgun golf.

Rest In Pieces, Hunter Thompson.

 

[punkbass2000]

Hmmm, for some reason I picture you as the type of person who likes Robert Anton Wilson.... I don't know how accurate that is, or if you know of him. He wrote a book called the "Illuminatus Trilogy" which you might enjoy. It's all about Eastern philosophy, Adam Weishaupt, the mystical significance of the number 23, secret societies etc... and it's a really, really crazy story. It has something of cult stature to it. He hung with Timothy Leary, and he also wrote a book called "Schrodinger's Cat" so you can be assured it's a mind bending experience to say the least....

Nope, never heard of him. I'll look into throwing that book onto the bottom of the list