Took the Ride

Hunter S. Thompson killed himself yesterday.

He sometimes wrote about obituaries and wrote some great ones as well. This headline from his Nixon piece is a favorite:

NOTES ON THE PASSING OF AN AMERICAN MONSTER....HE WAS A LIAR AND A QUITTER, AND HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN BURIED AT SEA. ...BUT HE WAS, AFTER ALL, THE PRESIDENT.

Now that it's Hunter's turn, I hope he gets the send-off to which he's entitled.

Unable to sum up my thoughts now that he's dead, I'll instead point to this post I wrote about him a year ago when he was very much alive.