Why rest in peace when you can go out with a bang?

[sabotabby]

jk_fabiani has more photos of Hunter S. Thompson's ashes getting shot out of a cannon here. pirat_ponton has even more here.

Farewell, dear Doctor. The world could have used you now more than ever.

Comments

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

I guess I should have thought of driving over there... But I'm sure it was a zoo.

[sabotabby]

I think it was. But damn, I'd have loved to have been there.

[icevein.livejournal.com]

!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for posting.

[sabotabby]

I'm good for something.

[99catsaway.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I liked your subject line.

[sabotabby]

Hah, I love your icon.

[99catsaway.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Books is life!

[see-my-glock.livejournal.com]

:(
my hero

[sabotabby]

I know. I kind of wanted to be him. Other than, you know, the suicide thing.

[see-my-glock.livejournal.com]

i knowwww. i grew up on his work, and he is now an inseperable part of me. it made me feel very weird when he died. up until that point im not sure i had ever even considered him as a seperate entity, or as anything other than a violent and appealing sort of Truth. I cried a lot that night for the first time since i was about 7, and ive cried when appropriate since then.

[pretzelsalt.livejournal.com]

WOW!

I didn't know there would be such a BANG!

[sabotabby]

That's what you get when Johnny Depp pays for your funeral.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

I got the box shortly before I left for work. I haven't had time to really look at the contents; but it has arrived safe and sound.

[sabotabby]

Yay! I will also expect reviewlets.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Shit, that was better than G.G. Allin's funeral. Farwell Hunter S.