quote:Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
I don't know... apparently they also use guns.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Benicio Del Toro looks like a dead man himself in that pic.
Thompson lived in a "fortified compound"?
One might think is sanity was not all it should have been toward the end.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Toward the end?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Well yeah- his books come across a pretty dry and factual to me.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
My current favorite HST anecdote involves someone, at his home, asking him to sign a book, which he prompty took outside and shot a hole through, by way of an autograph.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Picasso would have appoved.
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
Wow. For a writer like Hunter S. Thompson, you'd think he would've picked a more original way to commit suicide.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
I guess he had writer's block.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
More original like what exacly? Suicide has been done to death.