Remembering... HST

[Jaeger]

I'm a few days late (should've been on the 20th of this month) but...

Sorry you can't be here to suffer with us as well, you old fuck.

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--Jaeger

[Metalredneck]

Another celebrity chickenshit. Take the coward's way out.
I can enjoy of his works, but have no respect for the idiot.

[tumbler]

Another celebrity chickenshit. Take the coward's way out.
I can enjoy of his works, but have no respect for the idiot.

strong words.

[roadmissile]

Another celebrity chickenshit. Take the coward's way out.
I can enjoy of his works, but have no respect for the idiot.

strong words.

Seriously.

I tend to look down on suicide too, but something about HST being who and what he was makes it alright in this case for me, I dunno...

Jaeger, I hadn't heard that audio, lolol.

/RM

[Bo_9]

Watched his biography the other day. Fascinatingly tormented guy.
Feel the same way as a few others about the suicide bit and having been exposed directly to the aftermath hardens that point.
But he did say that was how it was going to go down all along. So I kinda admire him for sticking to his word.

[Drift]

I've been thinking about him and his work a lot lately. Just started The Rum Diaries and today brought in my copy of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 to lend to my co-worker.

As much as it saddened me, I always knew it was coming.

If anyone ever fit the Ootmik profile, whatever that is, it was him.

Renegade, addict, mad-crazy for speed, high powered weaponry and prose that cut. He was a magnificent mutant bastard.

I miss him.

[stiles]

I feel the same way about suicide as the rest of you, but I can give HST a pass on his decision. I doubt anyone thought he'd live to be old and physically decrepit, least of all him.

The man lived and died on his own terms, and I can respect him for that, even as I wonder what his take would have been on the last decade.

[Drift]

I wonder what his take would have been on the last decade.

That's easy, just read what he wrote on September 11, 2001.

Excerpts:

...The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now — with somebody — and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive “figurehead” — or even dead, for all we know — but whoever put those All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bullseye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper...

...We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or what will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows?...... - HST, Sep 11, 2001

It seems he did. And it continues ad infinitum, the details of office holders becoming superfluous against the now indelible backdrop of revenge and fear.

[piccini9]

I wonder what his take would have been on the last decade.

That's easy, just read what he wrote on September 11, 2001.

Excerpts:

...The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now — with somebody — and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive “figurehead” — or even dead, for all we know — but whoever put those All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bullseye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper...

...We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or what will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows?...... - HST, Sep 11, 2001

It seems he did. And it continues ad infinitum, the details of office holders becoming superfluous against the now indelible backdrop of revenge and fear.

Nailed it!

[stiles]

I wonder what his take would have been on the last decade.

That's easy, just read what he wrote on September 11, 2001.

Excerpts:

...The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now — with somebody — and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive “figurehead” — or even dead, for all we know — but whoever put those All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bullseye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper...

...We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or what will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows?...... - HST, Sep 11, 2001

It seems he did. And it continues ad infinitum, the details of office holders becoming superfluous against the now indelible backdrop of revenge and fear.

Yeah, I got that part. It's everything else I was referring to.

[calamari kid]

<---raises glass

Hunter, you're a flawed man, as am I, and yet you managed to tell the truth in a way that no one else can. Thank you for that.

To the Sausage Creature.

<---drinks