The Good Doctor

Let's hear it from the Hunter S. Thompson fans. Anyone else think he was possibly one of the greatest minds of his generation?

To the haters: I know, I know... "delinquent, trouble maker, dangerous, etc"

He truly marched on a road of bones. R.I.P.

I saw a documentary on him. He was an "interesting" guy.

most of his friends believe he destroyed his own talent through his addictions. he definitely was a game changer early on though. I hear Flying Dog ales aren't too shabby, also.

There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them - but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one. That is why they are dangerous.

Of course. You want to cripple the bastard? Send him a 130-mph cafe-racer. And include some license plates, he'll think it's a streetbike. He's queer for anything fast.

Or maybe not: The Ducati 900 is so finely engineered and balanced and torqued that you can do 90 mph in fifth through a 35-mph zone and get away with it. The bike is not just fast - it is extremely quick and responsive, and it will do amazing things... It is like riding a Vincent Black Shadow, which would outrun an F-86 jet fighter on the take-off runway, but at the end, the F-86 would go airborne and the Vincent would not, and there was no point in trying to turn it. WHAMO! The Sausage Creature strikes again.

Song of the Sausage Creature. Read it: http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html

Glad to see there are some fans.

"The edge. No one can truly describe it because the only ones who have gone over aren't around to explain it"

paraphrased because I'm too lazy to look up the actual quote. And running late for work.

"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer."

—"Extreme Behavior in Aspen," February 3, 2003

Here's a few for your extended reading enjoyment. Enjoy, Meatheads... er, Gearheads

"A word to the wise is infuriating."

"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

"Buy the ticket, take the ride."

"Call on God, but row away from the rocks."

"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled."

"Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect."

"I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes."

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."

"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."

"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."

"If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up."

"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."

"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."

"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master"

"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."

"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."

"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs"

"The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President."

"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason."

"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge."

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

"You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands."

"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."

Cut and paste is my friend

Hunter S. Thompson
May you finally find the peace you spent your whole life avoiding like the Plague.

P.S. I'm pretty sure by using emoticons in this post, The good Doc. will reassemble from the ashes, hunt down and murder me like a rabid dog.

Sausage Monster FTW

Really? Dead?

I haven't paid him much attention since I read "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" but I thoroughly enjoyed that. Didn't he just write a review for Car & Driver a few months ago?

Ah, well. So it goes. RIP.

1988RedT2 wrote: Really? Dead?

I'm not too sure about that either, I thought I caught a glimpse of him in West Virgina over the Thanksgiving weekend.

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail is perhaps the greatest book on politics you'll ever read. Read it during the next presidential election and see if anything looks familiar....

Dead since '05. His ashes were fired from a 150 foot cannon. McGovern attended. :)

paanta wrote: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail is perhaps the greatest book on politics you'll ever read. Read it during the next presidential election and see if anything looks familiar.... Dead since '05. His ashes were fired from a 150 foot cannon. McGovern attended. :)

Yeah, right. Next you'll try to tell me that William S. Burroughs is dead too!

1988RedT2 wrote:

paanta wrote: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail is perhaps the greatest book on politics you'll ever read. Read it during the next presidential election and see if anything looks familiar.... Dead since '05. His ashes were fired from a 150 foot cannon. McGovern attended. :)

Yeah, right. Next you'll try to tell me that William S. Burroughs is dead too!

I hope so. I just read The Place of Dead Roads and it gave me some f-ed up dreams.

He would have been a good sheriff.

After seeing the movie Fear and Loathing and then the documentary "Gonzo" I feel the most accurate assessment I can make of Hunter S. Thompson is that he made a living at being a complete screw-up.

That's an arms-length assessment, mind you.

ClemSparks wrote: After seeing the movie Fear and Loathing and then the documentary "Gonzo" I feel the most accurate assessment I can make of Hunter S. Thompson is that he made a living at being a complete screw-up. That's an arms-length assessment, mind you.

I don't disagree with you, but he made a pretty good living at it. And how nice for us that he was a writer/journalist rather than say, a politician.

1988RedT2 wrote:

ClemSparks wrote: After seeing the movie Fear and Loathing and then the documentary "Gonzo" I feel the most accurate assessment I can make of Hunter S. Thompson is that he made a living at being a complete screw-up. That's an arms-length assessment, mind you.

I don't disagree with you, but he made a pretty good living at it. And how nice for us that he was a writer/journalist rather than say, a politician.

I couldn't agree with you more. I guess the thing I should'a-but-didn't'a say is...you gotta give him credit for pulling it off.

pilotbraden wrote: He would have been a good sheriff.

Freeze punk!!! Give me all your drugs!

I also liked his hat made of unborn wolves, an entire litter