Hunter Goes Out With A Whimper. Or: All Hail The Death Knell Of The Baby Boomers

Nothing says liberal values like a 15 story cannon shaped in the form of a fist on the hilt of a dagger, holding a peyote button. I guess we got so used to Bubba having a revolving door in the Whitehouse for blowjobs, that you have to wonder why anyone would find a cannon with a peyote button being used to shoot Hunter Thompson's ashes in bad taste? Yes, I know the dagger/fist/peyote was Hunter's "thing, symbol, whatever." Anyway, liberals are funny people. I think back many years ago when I spoke to my father about funerals. He made a quip that he'd like to be cremated, and have his ashes spread around the White Elephant Saloon http://www.whiteelephantsaloon.com/ in Fort Worth. So, when dad passed away, I cremated him per his actual wishes, and interred his remains in a vault in his home town. I did it with the respect he deserved, knowing his comment about the White Elephant was a joke. Of course Hollweird has to make a spectacle of everything they do, so they shoot Hunter Thompson's ashes out of a cannon. The most telling thing about the Hunter Thompson cannon story is what was in the pavilion/food/guest area: Blow-up sex dolls, and caricature masks of former President Richard Nixon hung on the walls. Guests in attendance included: former prez hopefuls John F'ing Kerry, and George McGovern. Liberals, a party of values, right? What a joke. They should have let the guests at this "party" have a little fun. Why not grind Hunter up with a little gun powder and reload him in .45 shells? Everyone could take turns shooting Hunter at the sex dolls and Nixon masks instead of one big blast. Or they could turn the gun on themselves, (John Kerry, are you listening?) just like the coward Hunter was. Finally, for Hunter I say: So long you doped-up, chain-smoking freak, and thanks again for killing yourself. That's one less liberal mouthpiece, and another step toward a better America. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050822/ap_en_ot/thompson_memorial_5 By ROBERT WELLER, Associated Press Writer Sun Aug 21, 8:26 PM ET WOODY CREEK, Colo. - Hunter S. Thompson's grand finale went off as planned: His ashes were blasted into the night sky in an explosion friends and fans agreed he would have loved. But some said the gonzo journalist would have sneered at the Hollywood trappings — champagne toasts by movie stars and former presidential candidates. Filmmaker Nancy Cohen tried to organize a group of 100 fans outside the gates of Thompson's farm to crash the Saturday night party. "That's what Hunter would have done," she said. "This looks more like a fancy dress ball than a memorial for a counterculture icon," said Cohen, of New York, producer of "My Dinner With Abbie," a film about 1960s radical activist Abbie Hoffman. Crashing the party would have been difficult with the dozens of black-clad security guards who lined the roads leading to the farm. "It looks like the neighborhood has been invaded by the Viet Cong," friend and neighbor Mike Cleverly said of the guards. "I am pretty sure it isn't how Hunter would have done it," said longtime friend George Stranahan. The writer's ashes were fired from atop a 15-story tower modeled after Thompson's logo: a clenched fist, holding a peyote button, rising from the hilt of a dagger. It was built between his home and a tree-covered canyon wall. The guests gathered in a pavilion next to the platform. Inside were blow up sex dolls and a mask of Thompson's arch enemy, late President Richard Nixon. With drums beating in the background, trays of champagne circulated before Thompson's remains flew. Thompson shot himself in his kitchen Feb. 20, apparently despondent over his declining health. The national and most local media were barred from the tribute to the groundbreaking writer who was credited, along with Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese, with helping pioneer New Journalism — he dubbed his version "gonzo journalism" — in which the writer was an essential component of the story. His only son, Juan Thompson, said the hundreds of celebrities, including actors Johnny Depp and Bill Murray, musician Lyle Lovett and former Democratic presidential nominees George McGovern and Sen. John Kerry, wouldn't have felt comfortable with the press around. Depp, who played Thompson in the 1998 film adaptation of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," paid for the $2.5 million extravaganza. Depp and Juan Thompson embraced as the ashes fell to the ground. Juan Thompson told the Aspen Daily News that the ceremony not only fulfilled the vision his father outlined in a 1978 BBC video, but it "was bigger than he ever imagined." Ralph Steadman, who illustrated many of Thompson's works, had a different take on the extravaganza. "He'd probably say it wasn't quite big enough," said Steadman. "We want him back. (Saturday night) was a kind of pleading for him to come back. All is forgiven."