Hunter Thompson Widow Tells AP of Send-Off

[davidinalameda]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/08/16/national/a140708D29.DTL

A hand-scrawled note on the refrigerator in Hunter S. Thompson's kitchen says, "Never call 911/Never/This means you/HST." Over the sink, a snapshot shows the famously reckless father of Gonzo journalism nuzzling a tiny kitten.


This room, jammed with cooking utensils, writing mementos and a giant TV, is where Thompson wrote some of the acerbic books and articles that made him an American treasure in the late 1960s and early '70s. It was here that he held court with friends and admirers. It is also where he shot himself to death six months ago at age 67.


The kitchen remains a center of Thompson's still-swirling universe as family and friends wrap up plans to blast his ashes out of a 150-foot-tall monument behind the house at Owl Farm this Saturday. It's what he wanted.

[peacefreak]

1. Never one to rest in peace.

Buy the ticket, and take the ride. Fly, Hunter.

[ixion]

2. that there would be clinking of ice and whisky.

here's to you, Dr. Thompson. A true water buffalo among the doomed.

[girl gone mad]

3. I can't believe it's been 6 months.

Seems like it happened just last week.

:(

[xchrom]

4. sigh.

[phusion]

5. HST's "platform" when he ran for Sheriff in Aspen, CO

"Our program, basically, was to drive the real estate goons completely out of the valley: to prevent the State Highway Department from bringing a four-lane highway into the town and in fact to ban all auto traffic from every downtown street. Turn them all into grassy malls where everybody, even freaks, could do whatever's right. The cops would become trash collectors and maintenance men for a fleet of municipal bicycles, for anybody to use. No more huge, space-killing apartment buildings to block the view, from any downtown street, of anybody who might want to look up and see the mountains. No more land-rapes, no more busts for "flute playing" or "blocking the sidewalk"...fuck the tourists, dead-end the highway, zone the greedheads out of existence, and in general create a town where people could live like human beings, instead of slaves to some bogus sense of Progress that is driving us all mad."

He almost won under the "freak power" ticket.

Oh how he'll be missed...

[Gato Moteado]

6. awesome!

nt