Any writer who bites the news that feeds him owes a nod to Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, whose body was found today in his home in Colorado. Thompson, 67, chose the classic route of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
His signature style became known as gonzo journalism, and his work includes Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear And Loathing: On the Campaign Trail, and last year’s I-still-got-it Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness – Modern History from the Sports Desk.
Here at Gram Ponante Towers, we will think fondly of the man and toast him with “two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers. …A quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls”.
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