Well you know (toking), maybe this guy is more true-to-life than we are giving him credit for. If we think about it, maybe HST hasn't noticed he was dead yet either? Hmmm?

1 vote from Tonchi. for. next up?

Hunter S. Thompson always struck me as the kind of man that never performed an unintentioned act in his life, drunk or sober. I am pretty sure he knows he's dead.

ya why not man
 

I dont even know what you guys are talking about hunter s thompson killed himself we were just talking about that for like 2 days i should call the cops get you put in a mental institution. what the hell did that girl do to you, Everybody must get stoned so we wouldnt feel so all alone hows does it feel to be on ur own with no direction home like a rolling stoooone

Wow, he almost makes me yearn for the return of Angus.

What a 'tard.

I don't think you can lump Angus and gonzo there in the same group. Angus was hysterically funny, in the way your condescending butler is funny; gonzo is just stupid and listening to Dylan. I get a contact buzz just from reading his posts. Yay for me!

Anyone watch the Dylan documentary on PBS this past Monday and Tuesday? It was pretty good.

its time for a difficult relook at this whole situation, your fired awful jackasses, i never wanna see you again

I'd be terribly surprised if you could actually see me if I was standing directly in front of you.

troubleshooter what you just said made absolutly no sense i award you 0 points and may god have mercy on your soul uuum no sympathy for the devil keep that in mind

Sounds like the pot calling the grass green.

SCF, HM, SCF.

JO3LIOT, is that you?!

Dear child, that's my JOB. I have a get out of jail free card.

It's more than a job, wolf, it's a state of mind.

Yeah. I watched them both. They were good. I never saw much of Bob Dylan before. Mostly just photos and listened to his music.

Seeing the old film footage of him was interesting. He is a strange chap. The interview with today's Joan Baez was great! I left the documentary just loving her. She is so smart and has such a wonderful perspective on him and the whole 60s scene. I loved her story about how she stole a song he had just written while he was passed out and his reaction when he heard it on the radio a while later. Good stuff.

Joan Baez's "Diamonds and Rust", written about the end of her relationship with Dylan. Check it out, it's hauntingly beautiful, and you'll see where some of the melody lines from Granddaddy's song about the "Beautiful Ground" came from.

"Diamonds and Rust" - now there was a great album. Hadn't thought of it in years. I was up in Telluride a couple of years back, snooping around in the over-priced tourist shops there. One place was all about incredibly expensive shoes and boots. The proprietor proudly showed me a length of turquoise dyed alligator skin that he said was going to be made into a pair of smoke jumper boots for THE Bob Dylan!

I flashed on the deaths of 14 kids from a small town in California who had been smoke jumpers and died fighting a forest fire outside Glenwood Springs some years back. The Forest Service doesn't provide smoke jumper boots for its seasonal employees which is what these kids were. They had to go out and buy their own White's brand smoke jumper boots which back in the day used to run around $140.00 a pair. Don't know what they cost now. The kids bought those boots out of their seasonal's pay and died in them.

For some reason, those alligator skin smoke jumper boots seemed faintly obscene to me.

Suicide outranks homicide as cause of death in most regions of the globe. Depression(usually undiagnosed and or untreated) being one of if not the leading cause of suicide. If this was the reason for Mr Thompsons unfortunate demise than it really was'nt a concious(sis out) decision that he made. Leaving depression untreated is a very bad decision, suicide though I really cant say.

suicide actually happens more after treatment. Once they begin on an antidepressant, then they have more energy and therefore are more likely to kill themselves.

HST was an expert on the ups and downs of drugs. Ive been reading Fear and Loathing in America and if i could remember some of the phrases i underlined im sure i could come up with something a little more worthy but if he did kill himself i think it must have been to prove some kind of gonzo point to his real fans, Maybe he was depressed but who isnt depressed almost half the time these days anyways, I am sure he wouldnt kill himself cause he was crying himself to sleep, After all hes gone through hes not one to kill himself cause he was paranoid and couldnt take it anymore. all anymore, He definitley lived his life to its full extent. He could write genius letters off the top of his head drunk and stoned at 5 in the morning better then any hyped up coffee journalist with 3 editors could in a day. Maybe he was dealing with health issues and maybe they were because of all his drug use but i can gurantee you he did not kill himself like a scared crying baby who wants everyone to feel sorry for him, His mindset was more real then any TV show or movie character and if you are young enough to realize the mentallity of this generation you should go buy one of his books right now and better yourself and your knowledge of the real political/social and paranoid animosity you are going to deal with in your lifetime.

Who can't? :lol:

Kid, anyone who's jacked up on drugs is gonna adore "fear and loathing. "35 - half way there." Yeah, well wrong again old Gonzo Guy. I wasn't 35 yet when I read that and I doubt if you'd even been born. Punk, you don't even have the TIME to throw more paranoid social/political animosity at me than I've ever seen in my lifetime.

Frankly, who gives a damn what Hunter S Thompson's state of mind was when he died? He's still dead.

It takes guts to be an old person and take on the young gang bangers. You wanna make a hero out of someone who took the easy way out, be my guest. But don't expect me to lay awake nights wondering what the wussie-boys in your generation might be up to. I'm old and need my sleep. :eyebrow:

nice easy answer bruce, maybe you should read and understand why hes famous and then ask yourself that
lady, well thanks for proving my point punkbia who are you angry at, I admit i probably havent done nearly half as hard or as much drugs as you in my lifetime, but we probably both take things personaly very much alike. All i think you can take from hst is his humor his political understanding and most importantly the way he went about his business from day to day, im sure your quite educated on the subject of the elderly in urban enviroments and who knows maybe your late husband was run down on the streets by a mob of angry black rappers who thought he must of been obviously racist at least at one time, as for us wussieboys we could care less of what you think about at night in your classic pretty nightgown as you fade into rem and subcontiously dream about the good old days when we all thought what we were doing was right and deal with the muddy water you took advantage of back in those good old days of woodstock and lsd and living for the moment.

gonzo, HST and I are of the same generation. I've been aware of the man's writings and career from the Hell's Angels days.
I've always admired his ability to make his point on paper, clearly and succinctly, but that doesn't mean I always agreed with him.....It may have depended on whether I was more or less, stoned and drunk, when I read it than he was when he wrote it.
I've had a number of friends that worshipped him, as you clearly do, but I'm not in that camp. Respect is the best I can muster for a human..... at least a male human being. :lol:

for my two cents-I don't think HST was a genius. He was good in his way, but let's reserve the term genius for those who really are. Sylvia Plath, now there was a genius. AND! For added interest, she, too, offed herself! What's with all this offing of ones self? And why do so many talented people do it? Personally, I'd be scared to do it. I mean, what if the Catholic's ARE right and you DO go to hell for it? That would kinda ruin the whole reason why you did it.

Lots of incompetant jerks off themselves, too, Brianna. They just aren't featured on the 5:00 news. Frankly, I'm not too worried about a Catholic God. If that's who is running the show, I'm going to hell, anyhow. I stick around in the laughable hope that someday things may get better and because I'm a masochist. ;)

its 6:12am and i just threw up and got another beer, I never read the hells angels book or the rum diaries but i am sure there greatly educatonial. Although his methods and lifestyle are frowned upon by many his individulaismn was of the highest quality compared to pretty much anywhere at anytime.

gonzo-even *I* would quit drinking after I puked. Puking is a sign, dude, a sign to quit.

I wish you luck. You're going to need it.

Gonzo, the writings of Hunter S. Thompson are not a free pass to be an alcoholic. I'll grant that Hunter was a gifted writer who struck a chord with his times. The success of his books and the fact that he was still able to write in a drug and alcohol induced haze allowed him to run with his addictions far long than most people would have been able to. But he was the exception, not the rule. You're young yet. Get into AA while you still have a life left to save.

Im araid i cant do that, thats exactly what they want me to do trap me in a scared akward room and tell me im weird, i might as well join the army if thats the case. I need regular doses of alcohol and marijuana to counter act the medication that they give to me otherwise i might as well just be stoned for ever

Ok, I'll bite chucklehead, what awful medications are you supposedly prescribed?

Oh, fer the love of..! If I had a nickle for every time some nut case gave me that song and dance bullshit..! Grow up! Take your meds, and quit thinking you're the next Dylan Thomas!

OK, "Gonzo", so when did you decide to make us your Sociology term paper project? Aren't you through writing it yet? Well hurry up and finish then, because your game is getting boring. The strain of having to pretend to be a stoner is beginning to show through the BS :turd:

animal house:

from here

Were all friends here man, im still a very big fan of this place even though the recent discourtisies towards my personal self, i dunno whats ur guys problem is, and the medication doesnt really matter its just in there somewhere, you guys are assholes anyways, omg like why are people so stupid why cant you guys just let lindsay lohan live her life, were so lucky to have plinjinx making fun of me on here now we have the privilage of listening to that tub of lard all day long...... if i were him id walk my fat ass right into oncomming traffic. but im sorry will you still be my friends come over and see the rural life outside of your freakworld, i will take you for a ride on my motorcycle.

Not until you sober up.

More BS. If he WERE getting serious meds the doctor is required to report to the DMV that he is not able to safely operate a vehicle and they pull your license. Catch you after that and they pull the whole car, bike, or whatever he thinks he is flying at the time.

dude, know humor when you see/read it. fat? yeah, 5'9" and 165. stupid? yeah, they only give commercial pilot licenses to dumbasses. get off your high horse and pick up your young inexperienced self and live like you've got a pair. oh, and by the way, i used to race supercross when i was your age.

You get what you give, Gonzo, and Cellurites are superb at catching insults in mid air and sending them right back without even blinking an eye or a hair out of place.

Maybe Hunter killed himself because too many young punks who wouldn't know fear and loathing if it hit them between the eyes were sounding off in his name. No doubt, you'll be getting a call from a legal firm in Samoa soon about an anti-defamation suit that's pending against you.

This ain't no nursery school where you can punch the kid next to you and run whining to Mommy that he "hit me first."

Grow up, sober up, and learn to spell at least as well as I do (lowering the bar considerably for you on this last).

Respond like an intelligent adult with a sense of humor, or else stop whining about the responses you receive.

I'll even go so far as translating the above post for ya. Fuck off dude.

busterb, you go boy!

oh, and get your pathetic ass off of this domain gonzo. you are not welcome anymore.

Now, now.....you kids play nice.
You shouldn't pick on the retarded child, he's one of God's "special children". You've probably driven by his school. It's the one with the yellow sign that say "SLOW CHILDREN". :lol:

:lol:

aww sorry i diditn realize you were joking philijinx, you are all pretty good at insults though eh dont flatter yourself or i might break your hips, I dunno why people who knew of Hst long before me and probably even grew up with him get so angry over nothing, No matter how smart you like to think you are your all 20% nature and 80% and when an apple falls from a tree and grows up in a field of shit it doesnt have a choice its going to grow into a shitapple tree just like you guys

Well, now, that's just mean!

threats over the internet. now that takes class.
ignore list.

I like knuckleheads like this. They give us the opportunity to hone true insults without drawing blood from anyone by accident.

please what are you people crazy? tv lsd 2005 hst suicide fuck you, fuck your offices with all your mean nasty perverted sad losers, Im going to practice my driving on the prarie a half hour ride from here, once you get the cows running changing lanes becomes second nature but the bulls are different you have to calmy gear up with no mistakes or you will be rammed to shit.

I'm impressed by your ability to spell fuck correctly.

But did you mean "offices" or "orifices?"

Also, you missed an "I" in praIrie.

Actually, I find his misspellings very creattive and interesting. This guy could probably write his own 'dicshunary'.
:p

I like "calmy." Actually the technique is to slowly accelerate through the herd of cows (and any bulls). Sometimes a calf will be stupid and keep running in front of your car. This a favorable omen portending veal cutlets for dinner. :yum:

I find a motor or dirt bike is a much more relaxing experience when learning to drive on the praries inbetween cows and such of course i first heard of that trip in a HST book ive never been interested in reading what people think but i dunno when hst writes it always seems like a hot ticket, why not, anything worth doing were going to be doing right but only for those with true grit.

Broaden your horizons and read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. Report back to us when you've mastered it. :cool:

Man, I need to keep up more.

I saw this thread a while back and then didn't see it anymore. Then, it cropped up again on the new post screen and I'm thinking: How many times is this dude gonna off himself already?

Except writing? :eyebrow:

Yeah, I had no idea that Undertoad has a masochistic streak and wouldn't just put this sick puppy out of his misery.

When teaching a stone, one must be mindful that even the wisest teacher may unwittingly become the student.

as the saying goes
" never argue with an idiot ,
they will drag you down to their level ,
and beat you with experence "