Hunter S. Thompson Dead at 67

It's a sad week for fans of "gonzo journalist" Hunter S. Thompson, who apparently committed suicide on Sunday at his home in Aspen, Colorado. Many of us know his 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas which was made into a 1998 film starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro, and which recounted the author's road trip across the Nevada desert with his lawyer and a trunk full of drugs, ostensibly to report on a dirt bike race across the American Southwest. Instead they ended up consuming all of their drugs ("We had two bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers..."), reporting on nothing, spending their days and nights in various trashed hotel suites waiting to come down from their uncontrollable binges and trips... Hunter S. Thompson wrote beautiful, upsetting, non politically correct, often psychadelic, always crazy, genre-defining stuff, and he will be missed.