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Hunter S. Thompson

Monday, February 21st, 2005

Hunter S. Thompson is dead, apparently of suicide.

I realize I’m probably flirting with cliche here, but I think blogging in many ways is a modern day incarnation of the gonzo journalism that the likes of Thompson, Wolfe, and Capote made famous. I’ve always wondered why the Esquires, Rolling Stones and like titans of magazonia ever gave up on the genre.

I think the advent and popularity of blogging suggests that the audience for gonzo never really went away.

That’s a little beside the point though.

Which is that a terrific writer isn’t with us anymore, and obviously wasn’t holding up so well while he was.

Rest in peace.

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2 Responses to “Hunter S. Thompson”

  1. #1 |  Outside The Beltway |  February 21st, 2005 at 9:35 am

    Hunter S. Thompson Commits Suicide

    Author Hunter S. Thompson Commits Suicide (AP)

    Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counter-culture author of books such as “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” fatally shot himself Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67. “Hunter p…

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  2. #2 |  Say Anything |  February 21st, 2005 at 2:33 pm

    Hunter S. Thompson Dead At 67

    ASPEN, Colo. — Hunter S. Thompson, the hard-living writer who inserted himself into his accounts of America’s underbelly and popularized a first-person form of journalism in books such as “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” has committed suicide.
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