I Miss the Good Doctor.

[Sugar Smack]

He taught me how to cuss.
He taught me how to stand up for myself.

I didn't ever know him, but I considered him a good friend.
He was looking out for our interests. I love him, and he took himself away from us. I'll never blame him for that, but I miss him.

:cry: So much.

[In_The_Wind]

1. awww gee darlin' Sugar Smack

I'm sorry ~ ~ ~

[jpgray]

2. That smiley--my mind is more in the gutter than I would have thought

:o

[Sugar Smack]

4. I love and adore Joani's intentions.

But that is a bit of a "feely" smilie if I've ever seen one.

(Apologies to Joani, of course)

:loveya: You bothered. How could I NOT love you??

[In_The_Wind]

9. my goodness, jpgray

Am I missing something on DU today.


I was out doin' a bit of gardening ...

don't ya know ~ it's a lovely day for it!

[Sugar Smack]

3. Honey, I swear I don't know what started this-

other than reading "The Curse of Lono" and "Fear & Loathing" again.

Plus, I've been looking at "The Proud Highway", his personal letters to publishers, friends, and lovers.

If there's anything so telling to one's spirit, it's a letter to a lover. Thanks for understanding, my darling Joani.!

[In_The_Wind]

6. Sugar ... we seem to know and understand each other ...

without so much as a phone call, a PM or an email. You know you can count on me ...

I'll always be around when you need anything My Sister of Fabulosity!

[Sugar Smack]

8. It's SPIRIT that I miss.

Can we keep up some holy hell till the day we see him, or are met by him, or maybe have channeled him, or something, this goat-fucking instant?

[In_The_Wind]

11. Honey! Don't ya know ...

We are going to have a grand time ... all the way home beyond that vibrantly blazin' last sunset

[Sugar Smack]

12. We must.

I don't know what else to say, except that you should join me in Paris the next time I go.

[In_The_Wind]

28. How about on your trip north in October ...

[Sugar Smack]

5. Thank you, baby.

You are the MOST.

:loveya:

[Bucky]

7. I agree. The Tower of Pisa is NOTgoing to get any more verticle than that

now if you could only make that smily look a little bit more like Sigourney Weaver...

[Sugar Smack]

10. Hey, Bucky!

;-)

Have some tequila with the good Doctor & me.
Maybe some mescaline, who knows?

[WCGreen]

15. I'm on a three day jag too nowhere...

Big assignment and the bug fuck of an editor is ramming his pissante outlook on life right down my throat...

Working on a serious drug mix, with a few hits of X, some jamacin Hash, grown by naked black women who sweat and run through the field to collect the magic resin which is then scraped off by Blind nuns who think they are doing the lords work.

It's just better that way....


Three vials of various pain killers, a jar of ether and a cuban cigar I stole from that Fat Fuck Limbaugh when he wasn't looking...

Strange craziness as I call my attorney to get him here to guide me through the weirdness.....


When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro,,,,

[Sugar Smack]

20. THERE he is!

HI!! Thank you for the glimpse.

:hi: :beer:

*bad craziness*

[WCGreen]

21. My hero....

Did you ever read his novel?

[Sugar Smack]

25. NO!! There was a novel?

I knew there were journals, but I never knew there was a novel! I have read almost everything he's ever done. "Fear & Loathing" got me through a very insane time in Alaska. But a novel? Tell me about it, please!

[WCGreen]

27. He wrote it while living in Peurto Rico.....

Before he moved to California...

It's called The Rum Diary.....

Very influenced by On the Road....

It's about Puerto Rico in the late 50's early 60's...

Interesting read.....

[Sugar Smack]

30. I've heard of the Rum Diaries.

Was it fiction?

:D

[WCGreen]

34. Yes, but based on his experience in the Caribean....

[Bucky]

16. Ga-rrrowwwlllll-lah!

Fine, but we ain't drivin' the car around town if we do.

[In_The_Wind]

13. Well Bucky ... ya see it's like this ~ Miss Sugar Smack ...

likes to travel ...

but it seemed as if she also needed a little boost in her mood ...

just sayin'

[sniffa]

14. i miss michaeL savage too

[Sugar Smack]

24. i miss michaeL savage too

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[no name no slogan]

41. I miss him too-- repeatedly

That fucker won't stand still long enough to get him in my sights. Maybe I need to get more target practice.

[Bossy Monkey]

17. Ditto, madam n/t

[AlienGirl]

18. Me too

Why do so many of my heroes kill themselves? :cry:

Tucker

[Sugar Smack]

23. That was one of the most confounding moments

in history. What was the reason? Where was the reaon? I'm still in a fog over this one. :hug:

[Twillig]

19. A senseless loss.

Sure football season was over.

We all know how that feels.


But had he known that the entire NHL Hockey season would be canceled, his spirits might have been
lifted to the point that he would have wanted to see this glorious football season in.

[Sugar Smack]

22. I know, baby. I know.

HST had such a mouth on him. Fuck, what a fine specimen!! What a good man. Just a little while longer, and who knows what sparkling rage he would have come up with next?

[Redstone]

26. But you saw that note he left.

He couldn't face the prosepct of "no more walking" and "no more swimming" and "no more fun."

ONLY those of us who live with chronic pain and / or disability can truly understand.

So you're right not to blame him. Thank you for that.

Redstone

[Sugar Smack]

29. I knew he was in pain.

I am just missing him so much..thank YOU, my honorary adopted cousin Redstone!! Our sensibilities match up, so watch out for a big hug..:hug:

[Redstone]

31. Send that hug via PM, if you would; it's been way too long

since I've heard from you.

Redstone

[Sugar Smack]

32. Definitely,

and tomorrow, a day I've got free!

:hug: nonetheless.

[swag]

33. I am grateful to have read much of what he wrote.

First encountered him when I was 11 (1972) and had cajoled my parents into getting me a Rolling Stone subscription for my birthday. Didn't have a clue about this guy whose words I was reading, or about those pieces that would become the basis for Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, 1972. Why was he being so mean to President Nixon?

Campaign Trail is still my favorite, though Hell's Angels kicked more directly into my gut. Las Vegas the ultimate distillation.

When I was "Fine Arts Editor" of my university's paper for two years, the section went entirely Gonzo manque, though I wouldn't have acknowledged it at the time. I was so steeped in Thompson prose that that sort of text seemed the only thing to write then. Everything else sounded like stale, refried bullshit. Now I look back and see how imitative and inferior to the original my own was. But it was fun. We got to delusionally play as though we had a smidge of his talent for a moment.

He was perfect for his moment (really, he probably created his moment around his own perfection) in the 20th Century. Heir to Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Henry Miller, Jean Genet, Luis Bunuel, William Burroughs, and other giants. As with some of the greatest artists, he predicted and defined the future.

[WCGreen]

35. Did yo read his novel...

The Rum Diaries....

Not great but you can see where the Gonzo style started....

Also, the collection of his earlier journalistic piece in The Great Shark Hunt.....

[swag]

37. Haven't read "Rum Diaries,"

but enjoyed Shark Hunt.

Thanks for the suggestions. Probably time to retrace the evolution.

[Sugar Smack]

36. I knew that's where you got it-

You sound like him, but only maybe. Gently. I love the way you sound.*sorry, hands over face* but you do.

[swag]

38. Plucked to see your words in pixels, pal.

Even if they are sometimes too nice to me.

I think the wikipedia entry on the Doctor is nice and concise:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Thompson

and reminds us that the American South's hot current of life can be felt in the words of Thompson, as it was (albeit differently in each unique case) in the writing of Gore Vidal, Flannery O'Connor, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Harper Lee, and a flood of other worthy literary icons.

Louisville, crime, Air Force, beat New York, journalism, drugs, politics. Purely American in the best way.

Hi, SugarSmack. I'm happy to see you.

[Sugar Smack]

39. I'm happy to see you, too.

I love a gentleman.

[no name no slogan]

40. I'm reading "Kingdom of Fear" right now

I respect him very highly. And I miss him dearly, too.

Those rotten pigfuckers can't keep a good man down.

:hug: :loveya: