Agreed.

Now, where can I score some of that? Civil War re-enactment surgeons' tent?

i didn't even know who this dude was.
I heard around 10:00 and had to google him.

Jesus Timmy, even I know who he is and I can't even read.


You should expand out from you usual "Busty, "Shaved", and "US Weekly" regiment.

I bought a Maxim

Yikes. This will indeed ba a black day for Bloor. Heard the bad news on the way to work this morning, and you're the first one I thought of, buddy. Go easy... "So Cold" here you come!

A far better man than I maybe; that shit scares me.

yeah, sad indeed...




...but this is awesome news. this was my favorite of his books. should make for a great movie.

I guess he wasn't too thrilled about seeing his name in Paris' contact list.

As many of you may know, Thompson was abig fan of Hemingway, even writing an article in the early sixties "What brought Hemingway to Ketchum"? an exploration of why the great man decided to shoot himself. I guess this is appropos: "So finally, and for what he must have thought the best of reasons, he ended it with a shotgun."

I was talking to a friend of mine and he siad what makes him the maddest is all the obits are basically going to read "Know for his drug-fueled....blaha" when he was actually a pretty erudite and interesting individual.

My guess is he has terminal cancer and didn't want to go down the road of the inevitable, better to get it done on his own terms.

Mistah Thompson, He Dead.

This sucks, and there are going to be some stupid people doing some stupid stuff in rememberance of Thompson.

We should all feel fortunate that our lifetimes coincided with his.

It's been easy the last couple decades to take him for granted as the cartoonish, drug-addled wildman, but this might be a good time to remember that he was once just another dude in his early 20s with no more a chance at future success than anybody posting on this board, and yet he managed to carve out his own claim to immortality through the force of individuality, intellect, and sheer guts. We just lost a giant.


"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used" - HST

Easily one of the great writers of the last 50 years.

Not especially saddened since he chose to end his own life (suicide is a perfectly valid option and completely understandable) so all that's left is to acknowledge his brilliance as a writer and thinker.

a friend of mine saw him at a party a month or so ago and said that he didn't appear to be drinking or drugging but that he looked very sickly. he was having trouble standing up for long periods of time and not in a good way.

radcliffe nailed it for me.

ayah's note, coupled with reportage heard on headline news, leads me to believe the Honourable Senator is astute in his judgment. The latter of my evidence had it as HST had been confined to a wheelchair for the last year, largely. So, something was rotten there. Bone or pancreatic cancer; maybe colon? (The last tends to be the slowest taking of the three VERY deadly and quick-spreading cancers, so a year with bowel cancer would seem possible.)

There are several good articles remembering HST on ESPN Page 2 if you are interested. Good reads, all of them. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/

That's what I've been hoping for - the Hemingway comparison leaped to mind almost immediately and, although I've seen a lot of HST things come out in the past year, almost none of it used new footage, and even his ESPN Page 2 columns were more infrequent than usual...

A severely flawed (though severly interesting) political mind lie between those ears, and he was never a "longhair", despite what others paint him to be. I've been mourning him all weekend...A Great Loss, indeed...

Man, I've been pretty torn up about this over the last few days, for Thompson was that voice, that 'lil devil of temptation perched ever-forward on my sholder telling me to push on through the pain, and now he is gone and all I feel is that pain.

Best to remember those bile-filled, beutific words of his that most certainly got me through far to many angry/frustrated times without going postal...

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

Thought this was pretty cool.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4293625.stm

Yeah, but this isn't.

Wow. No...no that's not cool.

I dunno. There's no way to get around the fact that suicide, however sympathetic the circumstance, shows inconsideration for those friends and relatives left living. Like, somebody's gotta find the body. So, in a way, HST gave his wife fair warning of what she would find when she got home that day. It's a horrific - maybe even sadistic - way to warn someone, but at least she didn't have to enter her home only to be surprised by a bloody corpse on her berber.

This article offers a differing account from the ESPN article.

So it wasn't a shotgun, but rather a .45? Didn't earlier articles say a shotgun?

From earlier articles I read they didn't specify the gun, but you may be thinking of his last article introducing the sport of Shotgun Golf cooked up between the Good Doctor and Bill Murray.

Yea, that is probably it. But also, LooGAR's signature mentions a shotgun.