Day February 21, 2005

The tributes and remembrances roll in

Hunter S. Thompson (1939-2005)  “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” From PC Mag columnist Joh DvorakI can’t say I was pals with Thompson, but I knew him and chatted with him a lot when he was writing…

Well put

Hunter S. Thompson, 1939-2005 He was my big, bad brother. He was too dangerous to love, but I looked up to him. He gave lie to the contradiction between “crazy” and “true”. He died most fittingly, in a gun fight…

Another one bites the dust

From a friend, Michael Mitchell This morning I will go across the street to The Seal Rock Inn where he lived whilst finishing Fear and Loathing and I will order Corned-beef hash with poached eggs; his favourite breakfast. I will…