hunter. i wish i was the one you shot in the foot with your 357 magnum. that would’ve been the absolute blessing.
oh and hunter, i too roll my ice in chlorophyl.

love you, miss you, wish I could snort your ashes.

To my Beloved Hunter…You where with me ALL the way…one of the most generous and talented minds to come out of the USA for the last 50yrs..ohh..how we laughed and still do at the Shark Hunt..OMG…FANTASTIC..We ALL miss you so much…HUNTER…where ever you are,you have never left us..RIP….xxxx…Nyx

To my Beloved Hunter…You where with me ALL the way…one of the most generous and talented minds to come out of the USA for the last 50yrs..ohh..how we laughed and still do at the Shark Hunt..OMG…FANTASTIC..We ALL miss you so much…HUNTER…where ever you are,you have never left us..RIP….xxxx…Nyx

yes Hunter
I love you
Your writings
Friday nights
nightfall
exciting friday nights
in dallas
in houston
atlanta
ga
canada
world wide
you lit up the night sky
like a bottle rocket
peetering out at dusk
milk duds and carmelascence
rolling stones
hot tubs
girls
joints.
ahhh the mystery
ahhhh the verbosity
ahhh the intelligence
and indulgence
naked
mescaline
books
and
those
friday
nights
cheers
much love

“Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas” remains the finest example of individualism in American Literature since Errol Flynn’s autobiography - virtually every paragraph reads like his own self-liberating “Penthouse Forum” of freedom - and every snicker he put to paper plays like the preamble of our Constitution - a Federalist of his own making, he had morals, for Christ’s sake, and “I’m going to expose these fascist punks just about the time they get caught in a Fox-fuckin’ Jeremiah 10 forgettin’ plague of ass-polyp tickles they’ll scratch and sniff to the beat of a thunderbooming me - In God I trust, dammit, and none of the nations can stand before his indignation - hence, freedom - it’s we the people - or its your snoot pissy mama-muggin’ heathern hooker high-looks ruining my fuckin’day…
“It’s a war of man.”
You Godless heathen monkeypoets…
HeeHee….

when the going gets tough the wierd turn pro HST

Ignoring JBayer, let me just say Blah’s comment made me laugh. A lot.

People get so lost in Hunter’s writing style and character that they forget he was a great critical thinker. In an interview with Tim Russert (that fat little pig on NBC), he said “I always ask myself, ‘Who stands to benefit here?’” Maybe if we all asked ourselves THAT instead of “Why?” we’d get better answers about this government and country in general.

You learn something new from Hunter everyday. Happy birthday.

A great, brilliant writer whose influence far outreached continental divides. If HST’s writings don’t get you thinking nothing will. Greetings to Anita, Juan and Co. You were blessed. Cheerio.

He was such a great influence on me, and how I live my life. I still read his books over and over, and watch his documentaries all the time. I love my posters all over my house by Ralph Steadman and his gonzo art picturing Hunter. A shame he isn’t here anymore to provide us with his crazy ways. Very much missed. There was no one like Hunter, never will be again. A very rare soul.

USA political climat is really poor without your vision to kick some ass around here. Same for the american way of life as they called it.

simply, The Good Doctor

Thanks, its always good to read the doctor, it sounds cliche, but the world really is less for his absence.

They seem to be at least semi-hidden, but his later ESPN columns deserve a mention as well, another field and once more a pleasure.

RIP

Sorry about it but “youth is king”
and you j. bayer are a SQUARE.

I miss ya man, you are really missed. How about pulling some heavenly strings?

I have always felt that the 2004 election did Doc in. He really felt that the re-election of Bush/Cheney would be the undoing of America and he didn’t want to be around for the roundups.

miss ya hunter thanks for your spirit,writing and your views on life you,ve inspired many generations to come,in spirit
youll always be forever young.
-dhl

Please use your superpowers and do something nice for us poor souls on your Bday.
Bush doing lines on Cheneys bald head drunk off his ass and forgetting he is on Pravda…I mean Foxnews would be a great start
Your Enternal friend, gbish

Respect. We all know and appreciate HST’s value. After all, this is bat country.

ReUnited with the Brown Buffalo, They watch the ReConquest of the SouthWest with Glee.

Hunter & Neil Young shaped my youth and gave me sanity to hold onto in these later years. Will god have the guts to go on a road trip with him ?
A great American !

P.S. (It’s REALLY great to know you younger guys/gals are reading HST. It gives me hope for the future.)

Thanks Doc.

All Hail The King!!!

Happy Birthday to the Good Doctor.

I’m sure he knows he is greatly missed.

HST was the greatest writer of his time. He not only had an immensely original command of the language,he had deep insight and much to say. Come back soon, we need you.

Happy Birthday Hunter. You are sorely missed. I’d say RIP, but that is too cliche and you wouldn’t listen anyway….

I love ya, Gonzo and wish I could’ve met ya!
Happy Birthday to one helluva guy!
I think I’ll get out my ratty copy of Fear and read it AGAIN!
RIP

I just have to chuckle a little bit because when I was 20 (I’m now 40) the “older” folks would say us youngsters couldn’t/didn’t appreciate his writing.

I promise I won’t say that to twenty somethings today, if they promise they won’t say it to youngsters twenty years from now.

I’ve read them all, I’m 25. I believe my mental capacity far out weighs many who choose to speak. HST would embrace anyone with the passion to make change and be weird enough to enjoy his beloved ramblings. Jesus did I just say that? Or just think it? Did they here me…?

ok i may b on 17 but he is my hero among heroes!!

like he once said:
2 weird 2 live, 2 rare 2 die!!

& he is 1 rare commodity!!

happy birthday!!

talk about a legend. no wonder j depp is so fond of you. as am i.
i know you’re still rocking but on a different level.

Didn’t he used to be Johnny Depp?

FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE AFTERLIFE.
TELL OLD MARK TWAIN I SAID HOWDY!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLD MAN!!

Happy B - Day, you are one of the only Authors to be crazy enough to make perfect sense to me. Kingdom of Fear has pretty much said it all.

A guy who could write about sports, politics, strippers, or motorcycles all while tripping balls on mescalne. There will neve be another Hunter S. Thompson and for that….I am afriad for the world.

Dr. Gonzo, you were one bad mofo! So glad I saw you in th 80s in San Diego at “Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl!” Still have my raggedyass copy of “Fear and Loathing On the Campaign Trail ‘72″ that you autographed…Just wish you were still around to see Dumbya getting his ass handed to him one piece at a time…

“Kids today don’t have the mental capability to even appreciate someone like Hunter S. Thompson. Go print another Paris Hilton story, they’ll be all over that.”

I’ll let it slide, only because you couldn’t lick Gonzo’s boots. Old fart. You’re the kind of stagnant thinking that Thompson was so afraid of. Your thinking is OLD, jaded, preconceived. In essence you have been reading, but not understanding HST. In other words, my jaded, cynical pile of old: you have failed.

Anyways, I think it’s funny how Hunter cut his hair during the Aspen elections in order to refer to the incumbent as “my long haired opponent”. HAHA!

He’s been missed since the day he died, and will continue to be missed. But his message will ring out whenever stagnant, morally upright-yet-backwards institutions think they can break the idea of the human spirit and the American Dream.

Or possibly a written word pre-cursor to Bill Hicks? After reading those excerpts I gotta pick up a book or two of his, have been meaning to with quite a while now anyway

“The he goes. One of God’s own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die”

Is Hunter S. Thompson sort of like a grumpy Philip K. Dick?

RIP HST
Impeach Bush
Save America

I just read half of your comments and can safely conclude that you are all pussies. I doubt one of you has ever even been in a fight (AND NO, THE DEFINITION OF A FIGHT DOES NOT INCLUDE A DEBATE OR EXCHANGE OF IDEAS BUT A FIST IN THE FACE). HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That ia when you learn what you are made of (especially when you lose).

Hunter S Thompson’s birthday? Since when is a rattle snake “born?”
www.redleadbooks.com/ sketches.html

1. none of you have it
2. common sense is for you commoners.
3. the man went out like he wanted when he wanted respect it.

Good to read the excerts from the 04 election Kerry was better than this years feild.

J. Bayer
sad but
true
Its ok there is Always that “Weird”
Kid that Appreciates His works
I am was was one of those
Lova ya Hunter…

Happy Birthday you crazy SOB.

im a fan of his books… thaxs johnny!

I respect everything the good doctor has done, but why oh why did you have to leave us at a time like this???

happy birthday Hunter! We miss ya. Thanks for all you left behind

The king of Weird is sorely missed.

He was on letterman back in the late 80’s. dave even moved the entire television crew (including paul shaffer and the band) with hired under cover armed security up into the offices at nbc all for hunter, and his somewhat paranodial concerns of being assasninated by the goverment. carly simon was a guest and was quite ammused by hunters grabbing of air born spider webs around himself as he was interviewed by letterman.

My sympathies…

Harry.An undergraduate from 2002-2006? Such life experience in which to base your understanding of politics and society.

Blah, that was lame.

When Hunter died I remember thinking to myself - Wow, what a lost for America and it’s thinker, philosophers, and artists who speak out against the norm… Esp. in a time when Mr Bush’s gang occupied the White House and all the good and normal rules changed… When everyone believed what they where told, there was Hunter… Doing things he knew would go against the norm… Raising actual questions to ask political folks… Esp. hard to do after the Sept 11, 2001 attacks on America… where it was just better to fall into line then question… But he did… And not the same easy bonehead questions of Micheal Moore… No, Moore will never be able to handle calling a politican a ‘rat fucker’ in a doc… R.I.P. Hunter, god bless

So long as there’s free speech and chemical mind expansion, there will always be new doors opening to the world of Hunter S. The numbers may not be what they once were, but that doesn’t discount the potency of this man’s words, life and legacy. As the hands of big brother squeeze our short & curlies a bit more each day, it’s hopeful the youth will continue to learn what the Good Doctor means to the ideal of unadulterated personal expression.
Click, light, inhale, exhale, cough–Happy 70th Dr. Gonzo!

Hey Blah - that was a very poor attempt at ripping off Dr. Thompson. Now go listen to your Fall Out Boy records.

Harry - good for you, maybe all the kids today aren’t lacking mental capability, just a lot of them.

Jimi - lay off the dope man.

J. Bayer is incorrect. Kids today do in fact have the mental capability to appreciate Hunter S. Thompson. When I was in undergrad (2002 - 2006) we discussed and read his writings all the time. Not all kids sit around watching television all day. Some of us find other ways to intellectually stimulate ourselves.

J Bayer - It is your generation of swine that has fathered these atavistic anomolies. Born of your fears and self-loathing they feast upon the carrion of your past glories and faded dreams. The weakness you speak of lies within. Once you realized that it was raining shit and not chocolate your kind made for the exits and fell into the arms of the money man…into a world where the last man standing was the first to fall. The “mentality” (a guiless attempt to suggest the pandemic apathy of this generation?) you speak of sprung forth from your frothy loins with scant knowlegde of where we are going and sadly even less a sense as to where you have been.
Freak Power!

It never got Weird enough for him!!

Happy Birthday HST

Gonzo lives on

Stfu J. Bayer. Such comments just further tarnish the view of today’s youth. If you’re going to actually try to label someone’s “mental capability” then please stay at the low level of labeling then based on
stereotypes and don’t bring entire generation into this. “Oh my name, it means nothin’; my age it means less” -Bob Dylan

i resent that.

Kids today don’t have the mental capability to even appreciate someone like Hunter S. Thompson. Go print another Paris Hilton story, they’ll be all over that.