Updated 9:37 PST:
Hunter S. Thompson kills himself. Like the song goes..."But February made me shiver". I'm pretty sure I saw this interview on CBC where he started throwing bottles during the interview and when they played "American Pie" he calmed down. That was the song I thought of again after seeing the news as this makes two people whose lives I admired dying on the day of the Great American Race. Fitting coincidences I guess. Don't know why I remember but I appreciate how they all come together (at least to me).
What can I say? I posted below a couple of hours ago with the intention of leaving this website to further write on my own. I knew something was off in his last column on ESPN (click here). He quotes Melville in regards to genius in it, which was fitting. His newer stuff was never the same, I even wrote an email to mutual fan and blogger Tony Pierce a few days ago to mention he was off his rocker, as he also shared the same sentiment. Anyway, if you are a regular reader, you will notice I have always quoted the Good Doctor on my sidebar. He was definitely an influence to me. RIP, HST.
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"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."
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This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.
Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy. - 9/12/01
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That wisdom will not be much comfort to babies born last week. The first news they get in this world will be News subjected to Military Censorship. That is a given in wartime, along with massive campaigns of deliberately-planted "Dis-information." That is routine behavior in Wartime -- for all countries and all combatants -- and it makes life difficult for people who value real news. Count on it. That is what Churchill meant when he talked about Truth being the first casualty of War. - 9/18/01
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"Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist," Thompson told the AP in 2003. "You have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it."
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Tribute thread here, and BBC one here. Rolling Stone is a bit late and here.
Great speech from his son Juan, here.
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Back to regularly scheduled programming:
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I'm going to focus on writing a story about an eagle of a person who was part of something he shouldn't have ever known about and also saw something he shouldn't have when he was younger. After seeing what he shouldn't have he is subjected through physical, mental, and genetic engineering that forever changes many lives outside of his own. He has no knowledge of the brainwashing and subsequent events happening to everyone around him for many years. Of course, humans can error and after receiving powerful headaches as a side effect of his brainwashing he slowly recollects the instances of his long lost youth and about what he saw back then. He tries to shelter the images by drinking and inducing himself with foreign substances and also moves as much as he can trying to have no fixed address during many of those times. Still, the images keep returning and he decides to face his demons head on. Many webs are weaved and many people are involved whether they know it or not. Genetics and cloning and revenge and assimilation and hierachy and spirituality and love are explored. I'd tell you much more, but you'll have to read it when it is completed. It gets a little complicated.
See you around.
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