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Posted by Misha McBride (Member # 6578) on :

... commited suicide today. [Frown]

RIP Bubba

Posted by Fitz (Member # 4803) on :

Damn.

Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :

That is sad. We studied some of his stuff when I was taking journalism courses in college years ago..

Farmgirl

Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :

That is unspeakably sad on so many levels.

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

Longer article

Well, damn.

Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :

Geez. If there's one guy I never expected to take himself out, it was Duke.

Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :

I've been reading Hunter's twisted, brilliant screeds about bikers, dopers, sharks, Samoan lawyers, goons, sports, speed and Jesus freaks, Nixon, and the American Dream since junior high.

quote:
Writing in The New York Times in 1973, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt worried Thompson might someday "lapse into good taste."

"That would be a shame, for while he doesn't see America as Grandma Moses depicted it, or the way they painted it for us in civics class, he does in his own mad way betray a profound democratic concern for the polity," he wrote. "And in its own mad way, it's damned refreshing."

from Chris' AP link. As good an epitaph as any.

He will be missed. [Cry]

[ February 21, 2005, 11:28 AM: Message edited by: Morbo ]

Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :

Wife Plans to Shoot Hunter Thompson's Ashes From Cannon in August

[Smile]

Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :

Wow...