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Wow. That's some in-depth reporting right there.

What are these accusations of murder? This is the first I've heard of it.

Also, why would a widow need to mention that she's an heir?

It's all very strange stuff.

More questions. And question marks.

Hunter murdered himself. They're gonna dig him up, get his testimony, and then execute him.

also reported: each attendee recieved a case of imaginary bats and a mystery pill.

God bless Duke. Always.

No, seriously. This is a shitty post. All innuendo, no links or reporting that support this innuendo in any way shape or form.

So Anita Thompson travels to New York from time to time. Is commercial flight still considered fancy? Denver is a $379 ATA ticket away from New York. I'd hardly call that high living.

The implication that she's a dope-addled nutjob is undermined by the link to her well-written blog. For all I know she's as high as a kite, but she writes clearly. Most severe drug abusers I know can barely speak, let alone write.

I've never heard any suggestion that Thompson was murdered. And looking around the web I don't see anything about the other controversies you've brought up.

Her main gripe is that Jann Wenner is a fucking prick. The thing is, Jann Wenner is a fucking prick. Ask anyone.

Relax.

BACKSLIDER: And a quick search will show up all sorts of whacky theories: [www.google.com]

@JClarke: You seem to have forgotten your job.

You know, John, you don't have to approve every humorless asshole who tries to walk in the commenting door...

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@PeteJäyhawk™: Yeah, you're a regular fucking Richard Pryor.

Making fun of politicians, celebrities and other assholes is funny, even if you insinuate with your sloppy copy that they are murderers.

Making fun of widows who, depsite the fact that they married a public figure, are not public figures themselves, is not funny. It is especially not funny when you, with your sloppy copy, imply that the widow murdered her husband.

@Backsliderjr: You just really like the phrase "sloppy copy", don't you?

@Backsliderjr: sloppy copy sloppy copy sloppy copy sloppy copy

@PeteJäyhawk™: Have you ever had sex without paying for it?

My avatar is Budd Dwyer seconds before shotting himself in the face on live TV. And I think it's funny. I am a sick twisted fuck; this is Wonkette not the BORGEN PROJECT folks.

@Disco_Dave: You obviously have never had sex without the aid of rophynol.

I think the snark train has gone off the rails...

Any editors home???

@lonbordin: wakka wakka - he just got banned. Whew, i was seriously stumped on a reply to him other than a "your mom"

Wow, a "you're a regular {insert reference here}" AND a roofie reference? Kewl!

I can't wait for something equally relevant and contemporary, oh, like, a John Wayne Bobbit or Judge Judy.....

But to be fair, yep, Jann Wenner is a fucking prick. The beauty part is, so was Hunter. Sometimes, talent trumps being a douche.

But not in YOUR case.

@FreshCliches: and as usual, I'm late in shooting my wad.

Man, I missed the fight in the parking lot?
That's what I get for staying to work on my science project after class.

It seems to me Ms. Clancy would know a little more about what is going on because of who she may know. By the way, if anybody's been following the story, the veiled accusation is not that the widow murdered the husband.

Holy Jesus. Where is that goddamned West Coast Bureau Chief or did he already get the sack?

Huzzah! The comments to a post proved more entertaining and more informative than the original post. Hunter would be proud.

I still don't see the important question being answered: Was Katie on ether or acid when she wrote this up?

Wouldn't it be ironic if Anita Thompson turned out to be the Samoan author of this fictitious Clancy piece?
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This is some good shit!

"Ah, memories, memories... Where is that brain damage they promised us?" - Hunter S. Thompson

I confess that I lost a bit of . . . well . . . respect for Raoul Duke when I read a report that he was talking to his wife on the phone when he blew his brains out.

That shows a Certain Lack of Class, if you ask me.

Like someone who lived well beyond the surf line where, if you stand on a certain hill outside of Las Vegas, and look West, you can see where the Wave broke, and rolled back . . . .

[Fucker could write, though. Sometimes.]

@Backsliderjr: Well, shit, if it ain't one of them smack people around and scream an awful lot kind of guys. The kind of nutcase who you just know is not going to remain calm when the heat show up. Too dangerous to keep around and bad for business on top of it all.

Sad thing is, there's always another one around to fill his place.

THANK YOU CALIFGIRL! Ms. Clancy and I both know a bit about these people we're writing on. Thanks!

It is my understanding that our hero HST had severe health issues and took himself out to spare himself the agony he knew was coming,(this would also tend to preserve more of his estate for his bereaved widow- she gets it not the doctors). If assisted suicide was legal no one would be having this discussion. He didn't want to die the straw death so he went out with a weapon in his hand. The valkiries came for him and now he parties in Valhalla.

@Neilist: I had the same thought. Offing yourself quietly to save the family from watching you die horribly is one thing. Blowing your brains all over the wall while talking to your wife on the phone and you are in the next room is an act of aggresion, like killing yourself on your mom's doorstep.

He was a great outlaw hero to undergrads everywhere, though, and who would you rather the undergrads of america worship, Hunter Thompson, or Ron Paul, Ayn Rand, Rush Limbaugh, or even, God help us, Rudy Giuliani?

HST was into something over his head with his last venture. Something about the Illuminati and their thirst for young "stuff." Anyway, he was in cahoots with a certain photographer and the shit got too hot to handle. The photog is supposedly locked up and the thought was Hunter would be next. Although, it would be too difficult to lock him away, easier to just take him out, American style (think Vince Foster, here). Apparently Mr. T. saved them the trouble. It's not nice to fool Mother Nature...or Washington.

Real life is better than fiction.

@Disco_Dave: I saw that live on television when I was home from school that day. Nearly shit myself. But damn if it didn't make for riveting television!

If you're going to really kill yourself what the fuck do you care what other people think including your family?I had a somewhat famous friend who committed suicide some time ago. His grown children had to break into his apartment and find his decomposed body when he didn't return their calls and his agent got worried. My friend Spaulding Gray just "disappeared" then they found him about a year later in the water. It's hard however you do it and you have no control after you're dead.
I'm sure there is a joke in here somewhere... what? too soon?
BTW the money a wife gets and the portions of rights to books are two different things.