docwebster ([personal profile] docwebster) wrote2005-02-23 07:12 pm

That magnificent, crazy sonofabitch

Thompson's Ashes May Be Shot From Cannon

DENVER - Hunter S. Thompson, the "gonzo journalist" with a penchant for drugs, guns and flame-thrower prose, might have one more salvo in store for everyone: Friends and relatives want to blast his ashes out of a cannon, just as he wished.

(snagged from [livejournal.com profile] mrdankelly)

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2005-02-24 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
No, no, no!

We mix his ashes into a big vat of Electric Acid Kool-Aid, and take one more trip on his dime!

[identity profile] bludfeast.livejournal.com 2005-02-24 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
I hope they can do it. A dying man's last wish is the penultimate... who gives a fuck who it pisses off.

I can hear the cacophony from the religious whack-jobs now...

[identity profile] lavinia-3jane.livejournal.com 2005-02-24 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Amen. Blast away and hand over the Leary Biscuits!!

[identity profile] katharinakatt.livejournal.com 2005-02-24 08:59 am (UTC)(link)
Lol...I love how this man thinks...er..thought. :P