Craven Morehead

Shot himself according to his son.

Damn it.

Fuck....

Carno

Son of a bitch.

That really sucks.

sherpahigh

Holy shit!!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...bit_thompson_5

can't even believe it.

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mojodragon

Can't say that I've ever read anything of his, but stories like this sadden me. I hope that his family gets through this ok.

cyrnel

R.I.P. word man.

Craven Morehead

Here's his last Page 2 column on ESPN.com

Damn it.

gnort

This sucks.

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minyn

the world has lost a thinker and a thought provoker.

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Squishor

Oh shit... That really bums me out.

Fremen

Damnit all, that shit doesn't solve a thing! Dumb fuck

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Bacchanal

Terrible news. I loved his writing, I guess at least that's still around.

clavus

Adios, Hunter S.

You swung words like a ten-pound hammer.

Enjoy the ultimate trip.

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chickentribs

"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. 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." - Hunter S. Thompson

et tu, you crazy bastard...

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Painted

OH my FUCKING GOD

This is a real downer for me. My favorite movie/book is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I fuckin' get stoned as shit and watch that fuckin' movie since it came out. Fuck man. FUck. Time to smoke some weed!

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Ballzor

Raise your glasses lads, this man was a hero

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Mobo123

i was rereading the great shark hunt this am.

The_Dunedan

Goodbye, Hunter. May ye be in Heaven a full hour before Satan even knows you're dead. We've lost one of the good ones, lads and lasses. I can only hope God has a few more like him in the line-up.

thesupermikey

- Hunter S Thompson, The Proud Highway.

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Mobo123

"Jesus, where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to become president?"

A classic HST line about Nixon.

Spartak

No no no, why ?

This can't be happening, I'm in shock.

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TheWalkinDude

There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

I feel worse than when I found out Johnny Cash had died.

flamingdog

I'll smoke one in his memory tonight. My journalistic hero.

Charlatan

As sad day... A man who should by all rights be dead already... sped up the process.


The American journalistic tradition can be said to suck... now it has a sucking chest wound.

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Rodney

Hunter Thompson was both a man and a myth. The man is dead, but the myth lives on.

meembo

It doesn't surprise me that he shot himself, but it's the true narcissist fucker who does it and leaves the mess for his family to find at the kitchen table. I judge a man by the way he treats his family more than anything else, and I'm angry that such a talent was also such an egotistical asshole in the end.

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ratbastid

The most fitting quote I can think of:

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Macheath

Well I guess if anything was going to drive the father of gonzo journalism over the edge, it would have been this whole bullshit Jeff Gannon thing.

In all seriousness though, I mourn his death. The night before he died, I did feel myself winning over dinner party guests in a political debate using the man's own distinctive brand of rhetoric. For what it is, that is my humble tribute.

Cynthetiq

I remember reading FATILV when I was a kid... I was floored by the writing style and obviously the content.

I never read any of the rest of the things he wrote... shame this is going to make me read them finally...

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splck

what a shame. I always enjoyed reading his stuff.

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degrawj

seriously, i haven't been this upset over the death of someone i've never met since princess diana was killed in that car accident. i admired Hunter both as a person, and as an author. he was an incredible man, who had a lot of work still left in him. this is truely some very sad news. it's hard for me to put into words what i'm feeling right now. all i can say is that he will be missed. a lot. R.I.P.

bermuDa

I heard that he had died on the radio this morning but they didn't mention how he died... this is a huge loss

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filtherton

Good for him.

I mean that in the best possible way.

moot1337

Like so many others I can't believe this actually happened... the man I admire most for his fluency and artful use of the language... suddenly gone. He should have been dead long ago, but he escaped the odds just to fall victim to his own hand... it pains me to see someone go like that.

We have indeed lost one of the best. I raise my pipe to thee, Hunter. May the high and beautiful wave that was your life, though finally broken, never roll back.

degrawj

beautifully put moot. i too, raise my pipe. :-)

Coppertop

A sad day indeed. RIP Hunter.

tspikes51

Wow, this defininately sucks.

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NCB

Before we case this guy in bronze, let's look at some things that this "brillant mind" wrote



53,000 American boys dead and he call that a victory for his side. Doesn't matter if you feel the war was justified or not, no single American can feel good about it. Oh, except Hunter Thompson of course


Wow, that's a helluva statement. Hitler incinerated thousands of his victims. Performed experimental surgery on people (without drugs). Murdered 6 million people in death camps. But yet, that doesn't hold a candle to naked twister and panties over a guys head.

Folks, this guy was not Hemingway. Not even close. He just offed himself like EH did. In two hundred year, people will be saying "Hunter S who??"

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drakers

How do you even get up the nerve to do something like that?

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roachboy

it is a sad thing, this.
i am not a real fan of thompson's work--i prefer him to hemingway, but then i prefer driving tacks into my forehead to most hemingway--but nonethess this is a sad thing.

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Halx

You gotta admit.. that dude was not gonna die of natural causes.

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