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[litch]

silversaff Hmm, I wonder why a drug-addict shot himself. Personally, I feel no pity for a drug-addict primadonna who got popular on nothing but drug-enhanced ravings who shot himself. He won't poison anyone else into his lifestyle.

Of course it's entirely posssible he did it to get away from shallow pigfucking elegies to mediocrity like you.

Hunter S Thompson did a lot of drugs, he did them brilliantly and with more style and grace than almost anyone else (the only other person I can think of who even comes close is Ken Kesey). The man was a shining star of heartbreak. It's obvious you never actually read any of the things he wrote, he so perfectly captured the sense of (to use his words) fear and loathing at the hypocrisy and mendacity of the culture. In the eponyous fulminating outrage you could see reflected the best and the brightest potentials of our society and the terrible yawning chasm between where we are and that hallowed possibility.

He stuck around long enough to give us a beautiful glimps of what could be, and for that I am forever grateful.

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[contentlove.livejournal.com]

That kind of comment (not yours, the one you quoted) simply demonstrates to me that the person wasn't good enough to lick the bottom of HST's shoes, or else they're pure box-of-rocks stupid and couldn't read. Simple.

[endora.livejournal.com]

Very well said, Litch.

[tekelili.livejournal.com]

I find myself totally unreactive to this incident, as it seemed more like a usual day-to-day happening than anything suprising. But, I often am totally unreactive to death. Of course, I then forget that the person is even dead. I refer to most of the dead people I know in the present tense.

Not a defense but an explaination

[charlayne.livejournal.com]

Far be it from me to try to defend my daughter (Silversaff) but I have to explain somethings...

She isn't fond of drug use, in any form. She's seen too many people have their lives totally ruined from them. Thompson was one who never, ever backed down from saying "hey, I do it and it's ok" and while that's not bad, it's not totally good either. She's also someone who tends toward the more conservative side (but not on all things, she's an 'original' on a lot of thought.

I did find you calling her a name like that a bit over the top, she stated an opinion about the guy and his writing, that doesn't make it something to slam.

I've read Thompson, I wasn't impressed either. I think he had some good ideas, he had some things that were not good, and there were some things I just shook my head and said "what was he dreaming when he wrote this." That doesn't mean that I'm a bad person or a "shallow pigfucking elegies to mediocity" either. I just don't care for his work.

I also doubt that Thompson would want ANYONE pitying him, on any front. It was just not his style. He would probably slap anyone who was sitting around being morose and say "hey, go do something more lively, hell, have a fucking wake, ok?"

[navi-cat.livejournal.com]

Personally, I feel no pity for a drug-addict primadonna who got popular on nothing but drug-enhanced ravings who shot himself. He won't poison anyone else into his lifestyle.

No, you don't know me, but see to someone reduce a man that revolutionized journalism and stood out as a clear voice of what was really going on during the 60's and 70's [when the rest of the media was settling down into the trough they now get fed by thanks to corporations] to "a drug addict primadonna" makes the response appropriate.

Have some damn respect regardless of what you feel about his writing... he made changes, and more poignant changes than your superiority complex toting daughter can [obviously] comprehend.

Hey, fucknuts.

[sliderblackrose.livejournal.com]

Calling people names on LJ has no class.

I know I have no class.

Call my sister a pigfucker again, and you'll seriously come to find out how much you can dislike me.

It's not that I can't outhink you. Trust me, I could do that in my sleep. I just prefer to be blunt and to the point instead of hiding behind pseudo-intelligencia and whiny, 30 year old, blase hippy bullshit.

Re: Hey, fucknuts.

[litch.livejournal.com]

If you're going to make a threat, make a threat, don't beat around the bushes you'll seriously come to find out how much you can dislike me my hairy ass.

If she wants to act like a pigfucker, it is my (and the worlds) pleasure to call her on it.