Today would have been the birthday of writer and general iconoclast Hunter Stockton Thompson. Click here for a suite101 link about H.S.T. and his writings and legacy. Otherwise the basic facts are:
Born: July 18, 1937, Louisville, Kentucky
Died: February 20, 2005, Woody Creek, Colorado
Ashes Shot Out of a Cannon Into Eternity: August 20, 2005
A few web sites list him as being born in 1939, but I'm pretty sure 1937 is correct as he noted that he was 67 in his suicide note. He would have been 70 today, but he did not want to be 70 today, so therefore he took himself out of the game.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
Hunter S. Thompson
