Gonzo Journalist Hunter s. Thompson dies at 67

Hunter S. Thompson is dead.  

This is a very sad day in the literary/journalism world, and in American culture in general. I too, was a Journalsim major at SUNY New Paltz, writing and music is indeed a major form of expression.
I loved Hunter S. Thompson for his poineering work in gonzo Journalism, his sense of honesty and humor and countercultural perspective.Thompson's audatous need to experiment with mind altering substances, and show the decadent nature of American culture without the self rightous, moralizing lean of other more conventional journalists was gutsy for it's time.
 Thompson's book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a work of art, masterpiece (the movie as well) and Hunter S. Thompson WILL be missed. Please read Hunter S. Thompson's book "Fear and Loathing and Las Vegas" and see the movie (for rental now in DVD format). Hunter S. Thompson's writings were also featured in the mainstream music mag "Rolling Stone" as that is the ONLY reason that I would read Rolling Stone these days.
I'm so sorry, being that Hunter S. Thompson was an inspiration for aspiring journalists that he went out like that, suicide.
My heart goes out to Hunter S. Thompson's freinds, family , and associates.
Hails to Hunter S. Thompson, as he WILL be missed. \m/ -l-

RIP-My trippy freind Hunter S (gonzo) Thompson


ASPEN, Colo. - Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of journalism in books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. He was 67.

"Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family," Juan Thompson said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News.

Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis, a personal friend of Thompson, confirmed the death to the News. Sheriff's officials did not return calls to The Associated Press late Sunday.