Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself

ASPEN, Colo. – Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” fatally shot himself Sunday night at his home, his son said. He was 67.

“Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family,” Juan Thompson said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News.

Well, this makes me really quite angry. It’s absurd of me, but honestly, HST’s seventies material is a source of constant inspiration. I wish I could say it was a source of constant influence, but judged on the effects alone, my demons are clearly less affecting than his.

F***.

(Paul hipped me to the passing via IM.)