Further Note on Hunter Thompson

[Lightning Rod]

I can imagine several reasons for Hunter Thompson's suicide. Maybe he was in trouble with his bookie, I don't think it was because he was inconsolable over Bush winning the election or the Patriots winning the Super Bowl or because the NHL season was cancelled. Perhaps his liver was on the fritz or his prostate had grown large, who knows? Could be he just thought it would be better press to go out with a bang rather than a protracted whimper.

But there are other possibilities. It could have been murder. Johnny Depp or Bill Murray could have snuck into the house posing as Hunter Thompson and shot the good Doctor anticipating the re-release of their movies after his death. Or the government could have taken him out just for payback.

Suppose it was an accident. Perhaps he was fondling his shotgun and, you know, looking down the barrel to see if it needed cleaning and BAM!

His last column was about Shotgun Golf. It was a 3:00 AM telephone conversation between Thompson and Bill Murray about a team sport which would be a combination of shooting skeet and playing golf.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/st ... son/050216

Maybe somebody just forgot to say, "Fore!"

[izeveryboyin]

Ironically enough, I was deeply saddened by the loss of Thompson. But not so much about Thompson's death, but my own misguidance. The dissapointment of my being left out fo the loop for so long. All the great and beautiful minds of our time have come and gone, and I've missed it all. I felt small, and could not understand the sensation of sure mental defeat. What had I really been fighting for all those years? For hunter S Thompson? For Allen Ginsberg, For William Burroughs? For Beah Richardson, For George L. Jackson? For the hippies and the yippies? whatever man. I'm overly dramatic and always late fro the occasion. Want a drink?
--K

[Doreen Peri]

All the great and beautiful minds of our time have come and gone, and I've missed it all.

Not really, Kayla. Not at all close. Sure, some great and beautiful minds have come and gone but this is 2005 and there are many great and beautiful minds which are alive and well.

I know you weren't offering me, but if the bar's still open, I'll have a vodka martini, please, Absolut, dry, shaken, not stirred. Thanks!

[WIREMAN]

hey gang.....I wish alcohol were the answer, but in dealing with excessive behavior by an abuser of the stuff, I've seen just how destructive the sauce can be, just give this wired guy a puter and a lil peace of mind and hopefully everything will be all right, it's been a rough couple of days for some reason, but with 52 looming next week, I'm happy to be creating and constantly expanding my horizons and growing as sculptor, musician, and word performer.

[jimboloco]

LR I read your post on HT the bit where he called his friend up at 3 am and talked about shotgun golf....with the sheriff, no less.

I am taking a time out.

Wireman, congrats on 52


Now for a year I can tell ya, be 52, man, a pun.

52 is still young.

Get the welding shop. Make sculptures.

Live in art.

I been jammin and joking about booz and pot, but, inner calm and serenity has to be the baseline.

Now my meditative period begins,
with love,
later.

[knip]

may i take a moment to say how much i love this group and how they promote positivity, and better yet, accept me


just an honour to be part of this group

[mtmynd]

the honor is ours, knipper, to have you aboard this ship of fools.

[judih]

baseline is sounding unusually sane this fine wednesday morning.
think i'll have a triple baseline, stirred and allowed to settle in my dan tien

over easy
and the water's fine

[Lightning Rod]

ah yes, wednesday morning

It's not wednesday here yet

but when it is, I'll be looking forward to Mark Morford's column

he is HST's heir apparent. (unless it's me)

[judih]

mark or l-rod
hmmm
san fran or contraband ex-tex

hmmm
guess it'll be neck to neck

[WIREMAN]

ya could come to Bawlmer and write for the SUN, they need someone to replace ol H.L. ya can even have his house my friend Karen's got the keys, nice place and we'll be neighbors..........LOL

[Lightning Rod]

would love come to B-more
my roots

get me a gig with the Sun and we'll be neighbors

[Zlatko Waterman]

WIREMAN ( Mark):


I have been through 52 ( a great age, congratulations--Keats only made it to 26!), a heart attack and cancer, terminal anemia and other suchlike.

I am strong and healthy and almost 60 now-- 5 months.

It's great to be here, and to see your work and your words and your encouragement for others.

Alcohol, like other drugs in excess ( and that, of course, includes using them continuously in non-lethal doses) works for some, but not for me. I was once a world-class alcoholic and then discovered my production of art was being supplanted by the bottle.

Many great artists have gone down in flames because of alcohol and drugs. For some, the brief, bright flame seems enough-- Hart Crane, Scott Fitzgerald-- the list is long.

I watched a brilliant friend of mine, a doctor, a poet and a politician, successful at all three, kill himself with a congenital heart ailment because of his cocaine consumption and die at age 41.

Humans are frail, and creative people even more so.

Your sculptor's face is important for all of us to see. Keep bending the wire.

Your friend,


Zlatko

[izeveryboyin]

once again, I am left to be slighted by age. jimbo says 52 is still young, which would invariably make me a fetus! yay prenatal!
--K

[Lightning Rod]

K,

I'll trade you my age for your wisdom any day