As many of you know I had a busy week last time around, visiting hospitals and such, so this weeks Grey Matters is a rerun once again. It will be my Hunter S. Thompson tribute article. I did try to include my tremendous love of Hunter along with my inconsolable sorrow at his death. Attempted to anyway, as it is hard to get all that emotion onto a computer screen. As always it will be found at Binnall of America. I promise a new Grey Matters next week and I have already begun writing it.
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Hunter is my hero. I didn't realize that if you move your cursor over the world map showing visitors, it actually identifies the machine that has logged in. Wow...
I still really miss Hunter a lot.
Yeah, it does that and if you click on the dot it will tell you even more.
Byronically mondo "Gonzo", some will too quickly call him crazy.
But, pushing 60, and as much as a reader can, I grew up with Hunter S. Thompson. I found him to be more consistently right than wrong in places that count... more places than a reflexive detractor ~can~ admit, contest, or argue.
Those 'detractors' can push their scurvy sock in it as a result. Now and with all deliberate speed.
Moreover, irony may ~yet~ come to be discovered, Sir and Madam! It might yet be found that Thompson's life was actually a portrait of a ~sane~ man... a sane man reacting to a ~culture~ going, increasingly, more insane.
That's an irony you'll be able to "roll up and smoke," later, I suspect, in a shamantic sense... sooner than later.
...Truly, he leaves _far_ behind what the rest see far before them. A giant fallen. Scramble up on his shoulders now, folks, avoid the coming rush.
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As you say Alfred it wasn't insanity, it was a reaction to an insane culture.
Excellent post!
Alfred, Lesley: Agreed!
We all agree! It must be fact!
LOL!
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The mystery of Hunter still haunts me. Did he have something to do with "snuff" films? Hunter made no claims to moral high ground. He was gunpowder. He played with fire. If you play with fire...
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