Oh. My. Fucking. God.

[sabotabby]

Hunter S. Thompson. Fuck.

Can we just, like, have a reset button for this year? Please?

Also, is it bad to hope that he at least left us one acerbic, scathing suicide note?

Comments

[marquisdesod.livejournal.com]

No, it is not a bad home.

The man could articulate a mammalian howl of wounded humanity, without being shrill. If anyone is entitled to such a note, it would be him.

[sabotabby]

I don't think I need to know why. I'm pretty sure I know why. But he could express that why more viciously and splendidly than anyone else I can think of.

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

d00d. evangelists were right after all, the end is near

[sabotabby]

I can deal with end times.

The repeated barrage of good people getting sick and dying horribly? Not so much.

[marquisdesod.livejournal.com]

I'd always joked that the rapture would take the uber-Righteous from the earth, not the best of us.

Calgon, take me away...or Jesus, whatever.

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

That would be nice...

[ornery-chick.livejournal.com]

This sucks more than I can articulate at the moment. We lost one of the few who could slice through the thickest crusts of bullshit like an acetylene torch.

[sabotabby]

And he's never been more needed. Seriously.

[incendiarymind.livejournal.com]

It would be nice to know why. As has been said elsewhere, this one is just confusing. Kurt Cobain, Jeff Buckley, et al, those suicides made sense. This one is just so out of the blue.

[sabotabby]

It makes sense to me.

You can't hold such an insightful and perceptive mirror up to American society and then not end up wanting to die, eventually. I think people like the Doctor decide when they come and go. It's wretched for his family and friends and people like us, but in a way I'm glad that he got to choose how to live and die.

[incendiarymind.livejournal.com]

I think it was a good way for him to die too and it's only going to add to his legend. He probably knew this and left a parting gift if you will. One last thing people will debate about him for years.

[yallabaxna.livejournal.com]

Jeff Buckley didn't commit suicide, he drowned in the Wolf river....right? RIGHT?

[incendiarymind.livejournal.com]

Keep telling yourself that. It was the Mississippi I thought.

[yallabaxna.livejournal.com]

I think the Wolf runs into the Mississippi, a friend was with him, though....huh.

[incendiarymind.livejournal.com]

Either way, what I'm saying is that Jeff Buckley fans by and large say it was an accidental drowning but the facts just don't add up. He was a strong swimmer and he knew the currents in that part of the river. He wanted to go.

[yallabaxna.livejournal.com]

Hey thanks for ruining my denial, now I have to mourn Hunter S Thompson AND RE-MOURN Jeff Buckley.

[incendiarymind.livejournal.com]

Sorry. The whole Jeff Buckley thing is a sore spot for me. I used to sit next to someone at work who denied it on a seemingly daily basis.

[swear-jar.livejournal.com]

I'm hardly ever fazed when this sort of thing happens (to celebrities), but for some reason this one's pretty depressing. Thanks for posting, I wouldn't have known.

[sabotabby]

I'm usually "oh, that's sad" when it comes to the passing of famous people whom I've never met, but a) HST is one of my favourite writers, and he's been a huge influence on me, and b) I'm already in mourning for another caustic and brilliant mind.

[spacemind67.livejournal.com]

I'm quite freaked out about this because earlier Sunday I was thinking about putting a couple of his books that I have on Ebay, but decided I would hold onto them and maybe get around to actually reading them in their entirety instead of just in parts. I also had a brief thought that the prices for his books would probably be higher if he was dead. Yikes! Now they are just going to sit there and haunt me I think.

[sabotabby]

You should read them, though. Or send them to me, either way. ;)

[spacemind67.livejournal.com]

Ha ha...yes. I would seriously consider giving you one of them.

[thesweetdeal.livejournal.com]

i would give the rest of my little finger for some rum righ tnow.

[sabotabby]

Awww, how is your finger?

I didn't have rum, or bourbon, or whiskey in the house last night, but I did have a little glass of chocolate liqueur in a toast to the Doctor.

[1in8.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! :/

[sabotabby]

Yep, pretty much.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

Somehow, "fortified compound" and "bad end" seem to go together.

A friend told me a few months ago of some crazy guy who would occasionally show up in Boulder, claim to be Hunter S. Thompson, and drag my friend around on all sorts of improbable adventures. I fear my friend's life is going to have fewer insane interruptions.

With Hunter gone, I think we all need to pick up a bit of the burden of grabbing "reality" by the tail, and twisting it hard.

[sabotabby]

As I've said before, I'm not sure that this was actually a bad end for him. I think it's what he wanted. (Unfortunately, it's not what the rest of us want, or what the world needs.)

The crazy HST-impersonator ought to bump up the frequency of his adventures. Even if the real Hunter S. is gone, one can still honour the spirit of his life.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely sure the HST impersonator really was an impersonator.

Yeah, I'm not sure it was a bad end. I suspect he had his reasons. Though I expected him to last as long as William S. Burroughs.

Now what's going to happen to Uncle Duke in Doonesbury?

[sabotabby]

Now what's going to happen to Uncle Duke in Doonesbury?

I hope they don't kill him off. Also, Spider Jerusalem in Transmetropolitan...although I've never actually read it. I've been meaning to.

[fannishnonsense]

Wow, that sucks.

[sabotabby]

And blows.

[jk-fabiani.livejournal.com]

is it bad to hope that he at least left us one acerbic, scathing suicide note?

Or that he put up a white canvas behind him before he pulled the trigger, as a background for a Steadman painting. I wonder what Ralph is up to anyway?