----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Trinward" To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 11:06 PM Subject: [smith2004-discuss] Re: [lpaz-discuss] Hunter Thomas kills himself
> Sad but somehow not surprising ... I think the man saw his own talents > ebbing, > and the world getting less hospitable, and ... decided to do it his way > ... > > Jim Lesczynski wrote: > >> Well, this is an extremely shitty end to the weekend. HST is one of my >> all- >> time favorite writers. He may not have been a libertarian, but he damn >> sure >> was anti-authoritarian. Rest in peace, doc. >> >> Jim Lesczynski >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Author Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself >> By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS >> >> Published: February 20, 2005 >> >> Filed at 11:42 p.m. ET >> >> ASPEN, Colo. (AP) -- 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. >> >> ``Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers >> respect >> that privacy as well as that of his family,'' Juan Thompson said in a >> statement released to the Aspen Daily News. >> >> Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis, a personal friend of Thompson, >> confirmed >> the death to the News. Sheriff's officials did not return calls to The >> Associated Press late Sunday. >> >> Juan Thompson found his father's body. Thompson's wife, Anita, was not >> home >> at the time. >> >> Besides the 1972 drug-hazed classic about Thompson's time in Las Vegas, >> he >> is credited with pioneering New Journalism -- or ``gonzo journalism'' -- >> in >> which the writer made himself an essential component of the story. >> >> An acute observer of the decadence and depravity in American life, >> Thompson >> wrote such books as ``Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail'' in 1973 >> and >> the collections ``Generation of Swine'' and ``Songs of the Doomed.'' His >> first ever novel, ``The Rum Diary,'' written in 1959, was first published >> in >> 1998. >> >> Other books include ``Hell's Angels'' and ``The Proud Highway.'' His most >> recent effort was ``Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and The >> Downward Spiral of Dumbness.'' >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Obit-Thompson.html?hp >> >> >> Community Web Page: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/community/lpaz-discuss >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >> Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.1.0 - Release Date: 2/18/05 > > -- > Peace, Love and Liberty, Steve Trinward > Contributing Editor, Rational Review: http://rationalreview.com Jay P Hailey ~Meow!~ MSNIM - jayphailey ; AIM -jayphailey03; ICQ - 37959005 HTTP://jayphailey.8m.com NASA delenda est -- Jay P Hailey ~Meow!~ MSNIM - jayphailey ; AIM -jayphailey03; ICQ - 37959005 HTTP://jayphailey.8m.com NASA delenda est _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list Libnw@immosys.com List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
