No More Fear and Loathing

[andrewducker]

Hunter S Thompson is dead.

Gah.

Definitely the death that's got to me most since Douglas Adams.

Comments

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

Gah. Any reason given?

I'd kind of hoped he'd outlive everyone on the planet just out of spite.

[armoire-man.livejournal.com]

No shit. I always expected Hunter to live forever, and I'm surprised and saddened that he killed himself.

[broin.livejournal.com]

Or not dead.

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Why?

[andrewducker]

Not so far as I've seen.

[andrewducker]

He produced one of my favourite ever books and has been around _forever_. He's just been a part of my mental scenery for 15 years now and it's a bit of a shock him suddenly not being there.

It'd be like Johnny Rotten turning up dead, or Terry Pratchett.

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Neither of these would very much shake me. Alan Moore maybe?

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

Did he have a regular column somewhere? It seems so random. Cue the conspiracy theories...