"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."
--Dr.Johnson
This is page dedicated to my favorite author & Icon of all time Dr. Hunter S. Thompson the “king of Gonzo”
"On February 20, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson took his life with a gunshot to the head at his fortified compound in Woody Creek, Colorado," said a statement issued by Thompson's son, Juan Thompson, to the Aspen Daily News.
The family will shortly provide more information about memorial service and media contacts. Hunter prized his privacy, and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family."
A dispatcher for the Pitkin County Sheriff's Department confirmed Thompson's death.
Neither the family statement nor Pitkin County sheriff's officials said whether Thompson left a note, The Associated Press reported.
Thompson, 67, was associated with the "New Journalism" movement of the 1960s, in which writers -- most notably Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese -- took a more novelistic and personal approach to their subjects.
Thompson, who freely dropped cynical opinions and references to his drug and alcohol use into his stories, termed his style "gonzo journalism."
His account of a drug-fueled trip to cover a district attorneys' anti-drug conference as a writer for Rolling Stone magazine was the seed of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," perhaps his best-known work.
Subtitled "A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream," the 1971 book included his lament on the passing of the 1960s and its "sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil."
"There was no point in fighting -- on our side or theirs," he wrote. "We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark -- the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."
In "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72," he described the campaign leading to Richard Nixon's re-election as president with terms like "brutal" and "depraved"; puckishly speculated that Sen. Ed Muskie -- the early Democratic front-runner, whose poor showing in the New Hampshire primary doomed his candidacy -- was under the influence of a psychoactive drug, Ibogaine; routinely mocked candidate and senator Hubert H. Humphrey ("the Hump"); and bemoaned Nixon's looming victory by proclaiming, "Jesus, where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to become president?"
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE GREAT DOCTOR
ROLLING STONE ON THE DOCTOR
HUNTER S. THOMPSON’S BOOKS
PICTURES OF DR. THOMPSON
NATHAN‘S WORLD
HUNTER S. THOMPSON, 1937-2005
R.I.P. DR.THOMPSON “THE KING OF GONZO”
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MY SELF:
I’m a native of Colorado, I was born in Denver and I’ve lived here my whole life. I live in Boulder, Colorado. I love to read anything Dr. Thompson has done, I truly believe he is one of the all time best icons ever. I will miss Dr. Thompson and new articles and writings by him, as well as he will be missed by millions of people threw out the world.
