|
Well, I was going to go to sleep here, but now, I am going to go drink some bourbon and a Flying Dog.
He was a batshit crazy demented genius and we will never see his like again. Mourn his passing, for that is just, but mourn too the end of the age.
Bush had something to do with this. (Just saying.)
Strange thing, I almost watch the Fear and Loathing Criterion Edn tonight, but decided at the last minute on "Dave" instead. Good thing. My head would have exploded if I had read this after watching that.
Fremen is right - this never solved a thing.
Halx is right - natural causes was never in the Great Gonzo's future.
Filtherton is right - Maybe it's the best possible thing for him.
NCB - put the quotes back in the context of the hyperbolic, frenetic sort of prose he wrote and calm down. Thompson was not a hero because of his clarity of thought or his benevolence, tenderness, or cultured etiquette. He was a freaks freak and proud of it. He was a hero to many for being so very much himself that the world seemed to line up around him in ways that are hard to describe (without reference to mind altering substances.) 50 years from now, if we are still a democracy in fact as well as name, he will be taught in journalism schools, half as an example, half as a counterexample.
__________________
Light a man a fire, and he will be warm while it burns.
Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
|