Hunter S. Thompson is dead
p2pnet.net News:- The man who penned, “The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs,” is dead.
Hunter S. Thompson, who wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and who was ex-columnist for the San Francisco Examiner, was found dead in his Aspen area home, Sunday, from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, says the newspaper.
David McCumber, a former editor at the Examiner and now managing editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, edited Thompson’s columns at the Examiner in the mid-1980s, says the story, adding:
“Everything was legitimate about the man’s reputation,” he said. “The surprise was as I got to know him … everything was real … and that could be scary sometimes.”
Thompson was 67.
The painting of Thompson is from a Paris Review article.
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See:-
penned - Where thieves and pimps run free, p2pnet, January 31, 2004
self-inflicted – Fear and Loathing’ author, ex-columnist for S.F. Examiner dies of gunshot wound, San Francisco Examiner, February 21, 2005
