RIP HST

"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."

ASPEN, Colo. -- Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday night at his home, his son said. He was 67.

His obituary of Nixon: He Was A Crook

Bizarrely, if you google for "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert" — this journal is the sixth result.