February 22, 2005
A Final Word on HST
I have been accused of being "hateful", and "dismissive", in my cursory eulogy to Hunter S. Thompson. I would agree, and I would add that I treated HST as he treated his consumers for the last 20 years: as pieces of garbage.
I have also been chided for linking to Steve's post on Thompson, to which I reply fuck off. I don't agree with Steve's assessment of HST totally, because I happened to love Thompson in his prime, and I get the distinct feeling Steve never did, never how, never would. But it was a powerful indictment of Thompson's legacy, and a worthy piece of writing.
HST was a funny, brilliant writer, and a great biographer of his times. To those who think he led a generation astray into wanton drug use and anomie I say those were the same susceptible fucks who were going to overdose anyway.
Anyone with half a brain could read through the hyperbole and enjoy the ride. For the record I thought Where the Buffalo Roam sucked. Depp's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was brilliant in capturing the novel.
My problem with Thompson is of more recent vintage, and his ravings have been despicable. He is the classic example of a burning fuse that simply did not know when to die. I would have been far more generous had he done so.
And that's all I have to say about that.
Amen.
Posted by: Bane at February 23, 2005 2:36 AMWell said.
Posted by: zonker at February 23, 2005 9:05 AMClear enough. His last 20 years were not much.
Posted by: Rankin' Rob at February 23, 2005 9:17 AMPretty much sums it up for me, too. He stretched his 15 minutes into 15 years, and then coasted and became a raving lunatic. Shit happens ... especially when you drink and do drugs all day for years on end.
Posted by: Jeff Brokaw at February 23, 2005 12:50 PMLotsa peeps over at Steve's are saying he made up most of his adventures. Fear and Loathing is an entertaining movie, but even as I watched it I didn't believe that anybody's life could be so utterly unpiloted . . . and with few to zero consequences. Daddy always says, "any story worth telling is worth embroidering" but I gotta go with the theory that he embroidered on a lot of things that never happened outside of his head.
Must suck to be an irrelevant former counter-culture leader: Richard Brautigan, Abbie Hoffman, and now Hunter S.
Posted by: Liz at February 23, 2005 2:29 PMWhat made Thompson somewhat endearing was his insistence on exercising all of his constitutional rights simultaneously. His position on guns was unique among the Sixties left-wing types.
Posted by: jack straw at February 23, 2005 7:56 PMTrue dat. He was more of an anarchist-libertarian than anything smelling remotely of hippie.
Posted by: rankin rob at February 23, 2005 9:29 PMHe didn't really do half the shit he wrote about, but he wrote about it well.
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