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| | Hunter S. Thompson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Thompson got his big break in 1965 when he was approached by The Nation editor Carey McWilliams with an idea for a story based upon his experience with the notorious Hells Angels motorcycle gang. | | | Thompson had spent a year living and riding with the Hells Angels, but the relationship broke down when the bikers suspected that Thompson was making money from his writing, and they demanded a share of the profits. | | | Thompson also wrote a web column, "Hey Rube," for ESPN "Page 2," which was later compiled into a book of the same name. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books Obituaries Obituary: Hunter S Thompson |
| | Thompson's first book, an account of the Hell's Angels published in 1967, was a vivid piece of journalism, but it was not yet full-bore gonzo. | | | But he chose to ride a different bike (a BSA instead of the Harley Davidson much loved by the Hell's Angels), he did not wear black leathers, and he tried to keep an element of distance between himself and the club members. | | | He was a new kind of participant-observer, who made himself the story. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,11617,1419945,00.html
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| | USATODAY.com - Author Hunter Thompson dies at 67 |
| | Hunter S. Thompson was an obscure journalist and failed novelist when he spent 18 months running with the Hell's Angels in the mid-1960s. | | | Tulane University historian Douglas Brinkley, who edited the first two volumes of Thompson's letters, The Proud Highway and Fear and Loathing in America, and is working on the third, says he spoke on Friday to Thompson. | | | When he was working on his first book, Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, published in 1966, Thompson struggled to write the single scene that would sum up all he had witnessed. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-02-20-hunter-thompson-death_x.htm
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| | disinformation hunter s. thompson |
| | Thompson's daring study Hells Angels (New York: Random House, 1967) captured their brooding menace and established him as the most subversive voice in the US New Journalism movement, which combined the craft of literature with news gathering techniques to highlight how Objectivity was structured bias in reality. | | | Throughout the Reagan-dominated 1980s, Thompson focused upon anthologies: the excellent Great Shark Hunt (New York: Summit Books, 1979) which collected his best magazine articles, Generation of Swine (New York: Vintage Books, 1988), and Songs of the Doomed (New York: Summit Books, 1990). | | | The publication of The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (New York: Ballantine Books, 1997) letters collection, and the lost novel The Rum Diary (New York: Scribners, 1999) raise serious questions regarding the extent to which Thompson's thwarted novelistic ambitions are really journalism. |
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http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id361/pg1
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| | Amazon.com: Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail: Books: Hunter S. Thompson |
| | H.S.T can work on many levels, so even if you are new to the mechanism of American politics, and the monotonous unforgiving grind of campaigning (like I was), or, you have an extensive grasp of it, then this book will appeal greatly to both. | | | Generation of Swine : Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's by Hunter S. Thompson | | | Hunter, I hope you find the Brown Buffalo wherever you are. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446313645?v=glance
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| | Hunter S. Thompson Interview |
| | Hunter Thompson: They just happened to be in the same line of work I was in. | | | Most of my stories are tales of anguish, stress and grief. | | | Would Hunter S. Thompson, famed author of FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS and the new bestseller THE PROUD HIGHWAY really show up for his live interview? |
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http://www.fargonebooks.com/hunter.html
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| | Hunter Thompson's Chilling Death - CBS News |
| | Anita Thompson said her husband had discussed killing himself in recent months and had been issuing verbal and written directives about what he wanted done with his body, his unpublished works and his assets. | | | Find out more about the latest books and what best-selling authors are working on. | | | The man who could stand as the definition of "counterculture" committed suicide. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/26/national/main676680.shtml
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| | Hunter S Thompson on 911Realplayer audio-transcript : SF Bay Area Indymedia |
| | Just because Hunter Thompson said that he would "feel trapped if he couldn't commit suicide at any time" doesn't necessarily mean he had any REAL intention of doing it. | | | On the point of the media, Hunter himself put forward is the fact that the majority of western (and eastern in my opinion) media cannot be relied upon in these times as all you will hear is nothing more than propaganda. | | | Then again maybe we are all in hell and the scum are the ones who do deserve to live this life. |
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http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/09/144645.php
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| | Hunter Stockton Thompson 1937-2005 - James Campion |
| | My worship of Thompson's work, and the man himself, dedicated to living the soul of his craft, wasn't a gradual awakening for me. It was sudden, like a rubber mallet to the temple. | | | Nothing was ever the same for me. Career, books, journalism; I owe a great deal of it to Hunter Thompson. | | | Maybe those are not fitting enough analogies, but it's the best I can come up with minutes after hearing of Thompson's death, a suicide, like Hemingway, his hero - alone, at home, dead. |
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http://www.jamescampion.com/chekhst.html
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| | Esquire Article - Young Hunter Thompson |
| | And my mother would say, "Hunter, for God's sake!" or "Damn it!" When she was really mad she'd say "Damn it." And everybody would freeze. | | | And Hunter was also friends with the real shady element. | | | Anyway, the idea was that Hunter would send me a story, and I would type maybe five, maybe ten copies and send them to travel sections of newspapers. |
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http://ejeanlive.com/huntesq.htm
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| | Ghost in the Machine: Hunter S. Thompson |
| | And the Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, a collection of the young Hunter's letters, is an insightful portrait of the Gonzo as a young man. | | | Those who consider his prose too whacked-out and self-indulgent to be of any merit should consider the times when he was writing. | | | Although HST clearly had some trouble with deadlines, who can deny the man's talent? |
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http://www.kevincmurphy.com/hst.html
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| | NPR : Hunter S. Thompson Found Dead at His Home |
| | Thompson wrote the 1972 classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the tale of a drug-abusing journalist and his lawyer visiting a motocross race. | | | Morning Edition, February 21, 2005 · The counter-culture author Hunter Thompson, who popularized a new form of personalized journalism, has died at 67 in what investigators believe to be a suicide. | | | Hunter S. Thompson on the cover of his 2003 book Kingdom of Fear. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4507067
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| | The Blog John Cusack: Good-bye Hunter S. The Huffington Post |
| | Hunter upheld that "beauty is a light in the heart"...indeed in your heart John. | | | With this chronicle of the sights, sounds and poetic wisdom that surrounded Hunter S. Thompson in the fading light...you have lifted the veil for those distant, who would never have the chance to see. | | | John Cusack: Good-bye Hunter S. The Huffington Post |
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/2005/05/goodbye-hunter-_1.html
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| | Biography for Hunter S. Thompson |
| | Married for nearly 18 years to Sandra Dawn Thompson, during which he wrote what were considered his two greatest books "Hells Angels&; and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas&;. | | | Johnny Depp, who starred in two movie adaptations of Thompson's books (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) and _Rum Diary, The (2006)_), helped to fulfill his last wish. | | | based a recurring character in his works after Thompson: an anthropomorphic dog named "Pointer X. Toxin". |
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860219/bio
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| | Hunter Thompson. By Christopher Hitchens |
| | But, as Carey McWilliams of The Nation had recognized a long time before, Hunter was more than just a "character." His proposal to write about the Hell's Angels for the magazine, once accepted, was more than a brilliant piece of observant and participant journalism. | | | David Plotz wrote in a 1998 "Assessment" of Thompson that "he has betrayed himself. | | | The realization that this might have occurred to him before it occurred to us is a very melancholy one. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2113865
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| | ESPN.com: Page 2 : Shotgun Golf with Bill Murray |
| | It would be a career-ending move, and also profoundly rude. | | | HST: "I'm working on a profoundly goofy story here. | | | HST: "Especially when you stack them on top of each other. |
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http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1992213
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| | CBC Arts: Hunter S. Thompson dies |
| | ASPEN, COLO. - Hunter S. Thompson, the U.S. writer who pioneered the super-subjective form of journalism known as "gonzo," has killed himself, his son said. | | | He first vaulted to fame with his non-fiction book Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1966) — after riding with the bikers for a year to gather material. | | | "Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family," his son said in the statement. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/02/20/Arts/thompson-050221.html
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| | 'Where Thieves and Pimps Run Free' - Hunter S. Thompson Meets the Internet |
| | About>News & Issues>Urban Legends and Folklore> Celebrities> 'Where Thieves and Pimps Run Free' - Hunter S. Thompson Meets the Internet | | | 'Where Thieves and Pimps Run Free' - Hunter S. Thompson Meets the Internet | | | Interesting, isn't it, how sardonically true those words ring in all the different contexts you mentioned? |
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http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/dubiousquotes/a/hunter_thompson.htm
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| | HUNTER S. THOMPSON - Interview by Tony Jenkins |
| | For his previous book The Proud Highway, Thompson faced the difficult task of having people rummaging through years of letters that he had written. | | | The reason for Thompson’s Letterman appearance was to promote his 'long lost novel' | | | Johnny Depp is slated to reprise his role as Thompson. |
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http://www.rkpuma.com/gonzo.htm
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| | Michelle Malkin: HUNTER THOMPSON DEAD |
| | ASPEN, Colo. - Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counter-culture author of books such as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday night at his Aspen-area home, his son said. | | | And with his death, America has lost a fascinating bit of its living history." | | | Bill Hennessy remembers first reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as a young sailor and writes: "Thompson would hate my politics as I hated his. |
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http://michellemalkin.com/archives/001559.htm
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| | Contrary to his image as a wild man, Thompson spoke in carefully measured tones. | | | He has a new book coming out in December. | | | Thompson, we assumed from his reputation for wild partying over many decades, was buzzing himself, but in a different way. |
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http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={4AA795BF-95D2-4A47-9BA7-3F02C98C0BE6}&siteid=mktw
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| | Hunter S. Thompson Dies at 67 (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Hunter S. Thompson, whose life and writing, vivid and quirky reflections of each other, made him one of the principal symbols of the American counterculture, shot and killed himself yesterday at his home near Aspen. | | | Thompson, 67, was celebrated as a practitioner of an outraged form of personal journalism, offering off-beat ideas and observations in a style that was wildly and vividly his own and that brought him cult-like status and widespread recognition. | | | Thompson was known for a style that he described as "gonzo journalism," a form of "new journalism." It was based on the idea that fidelity to fact did not always blaze the way to truth. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40737-2005Feb20.html
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| | HUNTER S. THOMPSON: 1937-2005 / Original gonzo journalist kills self at age 67 / 'Fear and Loathing' author, ... |
| | Thompson's other books include "Hell's Angels" and "The Proud Highway." His most recent effort was "Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and The Downward Spiral of Dumbness." | | | Thompson's wife, Anita, was not home at the time of his death. | | | An acute observer of the decadence and depravity in American life, Thompson wrote such books as "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail" in 1973 and the collections "Generation of Swine" and "Songs of the Doomed." His first- ever novel, "The Rum Diary," written in 1959, was first published in 1998. |
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/21/MNGHUBERJ31.DTL
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Obituary: Hunter S Thompson |
| | He wrote of Nixon that he represented "that dark, venal, and incurably violent side of the American character". | | | Thompson is survived by his second wife, Anita Beymunk, who he married two years ago, his son and a grandson. | | | Thompson later admitted that some of the hedonistic events he described never took place, but his reputation as a wild-living, hard-drinking, LSD-crazed writer bent on self-destruction was sealed. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4283349.stm
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| | Hunter Thompson's Last Wish - CBS News |
| | Thompson even talked about embarking on a long-term project to expand the Playboy piece into a book, "a guide to life, sort of a handbook," Mohr said. | | | Thompson, 67, shot himself in the head on Feb. 20 after a long and flamboyant career that produced such new journalism classics as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and cast his image as a hard-charging, drug-crazed daredevil. | | | Tim Mohr, who talked to Thompson last December in what may have been the writer's last interview, says he was enthusiastic and full of energy and talked about writing a book he envisioned as "a guide to life." |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/track/rss/stories/2005/04/05/entertainment/main685787.shtml?CMP=OTC-RSSFeed&source=RSS&attr=Entertainment_685787
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| | ESPN.com - Page2 - Welcome to the Big Darkness |
| | Hi, folks, my name is still Thompson, and I still drink gin with ER Nurses at night -- but in one particular way, I am a New Man, a different man, a more dangerous man than I was the last time we talked. | | | Thompson: The Good, the bad and the vicious | | | The Bush family must be very proud of themselves today, but I am not. |
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http://espn.go.com/page2/s/thompson/030722.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books News Hunter S Thompson |
| | Obituary: Colourful chronicler of American life whose 'gonzo' journalism contrived to put him always at the centre of the action. | | | Thompson fan Kate Taylor reflects on the events of his singular life, and his ongoing influence on writers today. | | | A brief biography, plus a guide to his greatest works and the best biographies. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/page/0,8097,1419505,00.html
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| | Hunter S. Thompson |
| | **in which HST is referred to, perhaps for the first time in history, as a "literary roustabout". | | | Beautiful Hunter S. Thompson - An interview amongst other things. | | | The Strange and Savage Life of H.S.T. Fat City News: The World's Lone Repository of Outlaw Journalism |
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http://www.levity.com/corduroy/thompson.htm
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| | USATODAY.com - Hunter Thompson: Sports and politics, fear and loathing |
| | Sign up to receive our free Books e-newsletter and get the latest book reviews, news & excerpts in your inbox. | | | Hunter S. Thompson worked as a sportswriter early in his career. | | | Sports is no mere hobby to Thompson, who early in his career worked as a sportswriter. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2004-08-25-hey-rube_x.htm
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| | The Great Thompson Hunt - Hunter S. Thompson - King of Gonzo! |
| | Permission being sought for most items here; pictures are for personal and educational use only and as part of an effort to digitize my collection of Hunternalia so the world may see what this remarkable man has to offer. | | | TGTH is not authorized or endorsed by Hunter Thompson or his publishers. | | | The Great Thompson Hunt - Hunter S. Thompson - King of Gonzo! |
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http://www.gonzo.org
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| | Hunter S. Thompson Salon.com |
| | He still does whatever the hell he wants. | | | But the book is much more than memoir. | | | Listening to his ragged voice, there is some sense that Thompson, now 65, has reined in his outlaw ways, gotten a little softer, perhaps a little more gracious now that he's reached retirement age. |
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http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/02/03/thompson/index_np.html
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Arts Hunter S Thompson commits suicide |
| | Thompson was known for his observations on the decadence and depravity of American life. | | | "Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family." | | | He said: "[Thompson] did bequeath a very significant body of literature and journalism. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4282865.stm
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| | The New York Times > Books > Hunter S. Thompson, 67, Author, Commits Suicide |
| | As a young man, he was heavily influenced by Jack Kerouac and wholeheartedly followed Kerouac's approach in which the writer revels in his struggles with writing. | | | Thompson, a magazine and newspaper writer who also wrote almost a dozen books, was perhaps best known for his book, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," which became a Hollywood movie in 1998. | | | But he was better known for his hard-driving lifestyle and acerbic eye for truth which he used in the style of first-person reporting that came to be known as "gonzo" in the 1960's, where the usually-anonymous reporter becomes a central character in the story, a conduit of subjectivity. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/21/books/21hunter.html?ex=1266728400&en=d6490d85ff582f35&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
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| | CBC Arts: Hunter S. Thompson's ashes shot from cannon in final farewell |
| | His widow, Anita Thompson, has said she has plans to publish at least three new books of unpublished letters and stories by her late husband, and is looking for a permanent archive for his works. | | | She has also said there will later be a public event commemorating his life. | | | From 1963 onwards, Thompson lived in relative seclusion at his home in the Rocky Mountains. |
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http://cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/08/20/Arts/Thompson_Farewell_0820.html
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| | Hunter S. Thompson |
| | Thompson and friends also stole a lot of beer, every weekend. | | | In his last years, he wrote a column for ESPN called Hey, Rube, where his bio always said he lived "in a fortified compound near Aspen, Colo." His book Kingdom of Fear was a pessimistic look at America in the aftermath of Sept. 11. | | | Thompson was among the many beaten by police outside Chicago's 1968 Democratic Convention, an event which only made him more politically active. |
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http://www.nndb.com/people/312/000022246
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| | Rolling Stone : Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004 |
| | Thompson, long known for the eerie accuracy of his political instincts, went on to denounce Ralph Nader as "a worthless Judas Goat with no moral compass." | | | HUNTER S. Posted Oct 20, 2004 12:00 AM Also See: Hunter S. Thompson Dies, Fear and Loathing at 25, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | | | I say it would be a lot easier to just vote the bastard out of office on November 2nd. |
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http://rollingstone.com/politics/story/6562575/fear_and_loathing_campaign_...
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| | Salon.com Audio Hunter S. Thompson |
| | The conversation with Thompson lasted 12 hours straight -- nothing out of the ordinary for the host: Owl Farm operates like an 18th century salon, where people from all walks of life congregate in the wee hours for free exchanges about everything from theoretical physics to local water rights. | | | For most of the conversation, Thompson sat at his command post on the kitchen side of a peninsula counter -- rocking back and forth in a swivel chair and chain-smoking red Dunhills through a German-made gold-tipped cigarette filter. | | | His home, Owl Farm, is a rustic ranch that borders the White River National Forest. |
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http://archive.salon.com/audio/the_paris_review/2000/12/05/hsthompson/index
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| | The Great Thompson Hunt - HST & Friends |
| | Please note: if one of your family or friends was friends with HST, I cannot help you locate them, other than suggesting an online people search. | | | I don't have the time or resources to track down long lost people. | | | You can find many of the same issues that I have on eBay or on microfiche/film at a public or college level library. |
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http://www.gonzo.org/hst
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| | Hunter Socks Thompson: Feline, Hedonist, Friend |
| | This is a Flickr badge showing photos in a set called Hunter 'Socks' Thompson. | | | The Life and Times of Hunter "Socks" Thompson: Feline, Hedonist, Friend | | | November 2003 December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 January 2006 February 2006 |
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| | ESPN Search: s. |
| | There are no articles about S. within ESPN. | | | What do you think of ESPN's new search? |
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| | Hunter S. Thompson |
| | Find where Hunter S. Thompson is credited alongside another name | | | Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Hunter S. Thompson | | | Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film (2006).... |
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| | Hunter S. Thompson Quotes |
| | You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye. | | | Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's Easy! | | | Home Topics Type Trivia A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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