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 Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:22 pm Post subject: Kerry attends Hunter S. Thompson wake |
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http://www.aspendailynews.com/articles.cfm?id=1
| Quote: | Sunday, August 21, 2005
HST Canonized
By Troy Hooper/Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Woody Creek - Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson's ashes rained down on his Owl Farm property Saturday night as actor Johnny Depp, who paid for the $2.5 million ceremony, raised his champagne glass toward the night sky.
A star-studded crowd included 2004 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and his 1972 counterpart, George McGovern.
"Hunter would have loved it," said veteran television newsman Ed Bradley, a friend of Thompson's who logged many years with the "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" author.
Thompson shot himself in his kitchen on Feb. 20.
The ash blast occurred at 8:46 p.m. while a kimono-clad Japanese drum band wailed away. The red-white-and-blue pyrotechnic show featured more than 30 firework missiles exploding into the dark horizon, punctuated by three hologram double-thumbed gonzo fists.
Those who toasted Thompson included actor Bill Murray, former Nitty Gritty Dirt Band musician Jimmy Ibbotson and a slew of his neighbors and friends.
"It's a fantastic crowd," said Thompson's longtime friend and neighbor Don Dixon. "Half of the people here look like Keith Richards."
Richards was invited to the fiery farewell but could not attend because he is preparing for the Rolling Stones concert in Boston on Sunday.
Thompson's ashes were blasted out of a 153-foot monument - 2 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty. The "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" author often violently disagreed with how his image and materials were produced.
"He'd probably say it wasn't quite big enough," said Ralph Steadman, who flew in for the ceremony from London after last seeing Thompson in the fall of 2004. "We want him back. (Saturday night) was a kind of pleading for him to come back. All is forgiven."
Black-and-white photographs of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Samuel Cooleridge, Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Henry Miller, Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway looked down on the approximately 350 attendees who wrote down their thoughts once they climbed a large black staircase that led into an open-air tent. Chandeliers and mounted wild-game heads decorated the booze-ridden ceremony.
Alcohol was limited before the ash blast, but in true Thompson style, mint juleps were served to attendees at the gate. Trays of champagne circulated just before Thompson's remains flew.
Juan Thompson, the author's only son, said the ceremony not only fulfilled the vision outlined in a 1978 BBC video, but it "was bigger than he ever imagined."
Depp, who played Thompson in the 1998 film adaptation of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," and Juan Thompson embraced as the ashes fell to the ground.
Thompson's son said the ceremony was not his father's final chapter. But, he said, it was the continuation of the iconoclastic author's legacy.
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GM Strong
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| Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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You beat me to this by 2 minutes. This was a disgusting display of secular nihilism which Skerry is a purveyor of in all ways. Gag me with a French Silver Spoon.
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Rdtf
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| Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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we are on the same wavelength!  |
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GM Strong
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| Rdtf wrote: | | we are on the same wavelength! |
Ditto, Bro!!  
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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I wonder what color the sky is in these people's world?
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| GM Strong wrote: | | You beat me to this by 2 minutes. This was a disgusting display of secular nihilism which Skerry is a purveyor of in all ways. Gag me with a French Silver Spoon. |
(early 1980's)
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| Curious! Anybody have any idea why Kerry would be attending this circus event? It's quite a way (geographically) off the beaten path of a Mass senator. I can't see that having his name associated with this would be particularly politically advantageous. So why? Does this suggest that there might have been another far left summit in the Aspen area (Soros and his cronies) that Kerry was attending? |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 2:19 pm Post subject: Both Spooks. |
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| Thompson and Skerry...................they are/were both spooks. |
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GM Strong
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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Honestly, why would anybody be surprised Lurch was there? These are his kind of folks. Remember the NYC election rally for sKerry and all the profanity and crass allusions specially from Whoopee Goldberg? They just had one outdoors this time.
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| Quote: | | Remember the NYC election rally for sKerry |
Well, I think that says why sKerry was in NYC all by itself (and NYC is, anyway, mid-way between MASS and Wash, DC).
But I still am very curious as to why sKerry just out-of-the-blue showed up in Aspen, Colorado. |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:51 am Post subject: |
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| Anker-Klanker wrote: | | Quote: | | Remember the NYC election rally for sKerry |
Well, I think that says why sKerry was in NYC all by itself (and NYC is, anyway, mid-way between MASS and Wash, DC).
But I still am very curious as to why sKerry just out-of-the-blue showed up in Aspen, Colorado. |
Well, Yee-Hah, he has a small cottage with a barn there and likes the 16th Century setting. Tah-Ray-Zah likes the stream side setting the state diverted for them.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 12:59 am Post subject: |
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John Kerry = Beautiful Person = Aspen
What's the mystery?
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| Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 3:27 am Post subject: |
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2.5 Million for this Day of the Locust event? Had a Conservative spent that much for a dignified service for a Republican Icon, the left would of wailed about how many starving children in Niger could of been feed instead.  |
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When your wife has her own airplane, you can go pretty much
anywhere you like.
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