Hunter S. Thompson Revisited: New Excerpts From Oral History

FOXNews:

Neville Blakemore (grew up with Hunter in the Highlands neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky): "My parents didn't like my hanging around with him -- they thought he was a bully. But we always wanted to go over to his house. There was always something going on. We had toy soldiers and we'd play these huge war games. World War II was a big influence. We'd play Germans and Japanese and have battles all over the neighborhood. People would have cardboard guns and cap pistols and backpacks and helmet liners. Some guys had BB guns."

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Comments

[peavydreamer]

Saw him at the U of W in the early eighties. He arrived two hours late, bored the audience to tears with descriptions of designer drugs while making moves on the prettiest girl in the front row.
Bill Murray's portrayal was far more entertaining than the original.

[citizenofmars]

The 80's were a throw-away decade anyway. Hunter was as lost as everyone else during the Reagan years. His books live on...

[andyg]

if you talk hunterv s. thompson and oral you should mention were not to stick a gun.

[Podewumun]

4 gonzo

he,
lost!
and burned!
and shot aloft
did kiss beloved blue sky
and his gentle return by
mountain's spring
bubbling, mad
as laughter,
love and
life.

Any fledgling writer from the '60s owes a debt to Hunter S. Thompson that can only be repaid in the international currency of sarcasm and mad laughter!! No matter how bad things were back then, he could always transport the remains of your mind to Gonzoworld, an especially strange and psychedelic version of ROME! xo&TXZHRT

[johnnyjust]

Thompson was great.

The last thing of his I read was so funny I laughed his head off.

[Jain]

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." Work's for me.

[Podewumun]

HOLY MACARONI! Are you from N.C.? Kristina and (her x)Nick the Brit say howzya!, and girl who peed in sleeping bag Halloween night still has her GONZO Tshirt. and her TATAs!!!
out

[citizenofmars]

Hunter's REAL work in progress was called "Empire of Fear", about 911 and it's aftermath. In many interviews he expressed his belief that it was an inside job by the military. His death is very suspicious, and murder most foul is not out of the question.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

no, it wasn't about 9/11, it was about something else. something so head-spinning, even I don't talk about it.

[citizenofmars]

you're full of bullshit today aren't you?

[Rand]

Ah, Hunter! How we miss your biting humor... And your accuracy in political odds-making (When you didn'y let your heart get in the way of your head)

I hope there's plenty of "King-Hell crank" wherever you are!