RIP HST

[nibot]

"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.

Comments

[hypostatization.livejournal.com]

you're second to report this on my friends list, congratulations!

[nibot.livejournal.com]

I feel like we should set something on fire.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

actually, now that I think about it, Wild Turkey is awfully inflammable...

[pbrane.livejournal.com]

only if we're on acid, driving at a hundred and twenty miles an hour, shooting an M-16 out the window, and dragging some prominent Bush administration official behind the car tied to the bumper by his nuts.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

I'm on it.

[archimedes314.livejournal.com]

Ahhh.... he didn't get those golf shoes in time. :-(

[bobosan.livejournal.com]

you were the first person on my friend's list to report this.

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

As of 10:40pm you've dropped to 18th. Still, it makes you realise how unplanned some of your internet presence is.

When I saw the google news, I knew I'd see something from you on the subject.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

i can't sleep. i might never sleep. fear and guilt and self-loathing and just plain sorrow panic have kept me awake until now, and now Hunter S. Thompson is dead. oh god. and arthur miller is dead. and everyone might be dead. everything feels very dangerous right now, in that middle of the night way...is some kind of destructive binge the only way to honor Thompson, whom I just incidentally swore at in a now infamously destructive email, which has probably ruined

from a random livejournal

[i-shake-babies.livejournal.com]

I like tacos. You wouldn't happen to have a taco would you?

[nibot.livejournal.com]

oh, man. if only.

[svino.livejournal.com]

Of course, being a physics geek, when I first saw your headline I assumed it was a commentary on the impending demise (http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=22379&pid=1258) of the Hubble Space Telescope.