RIP Hunter S Thompson

[jrt]

Let's not turn this into a Thompson gun thread

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

I didn't think anyone would get it. You should get a quiz point for that!

[dlaing]

I didn't think anyone would get it. You should get a quiz point for that!

43997[/snapback]

I needed to look it up...

Written By Warren Zevon & David Lindell c. 1976 Zevon Music/BMI

Roland was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun

With a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done

The deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day

So he set out for Biafra to join the bloody fray

Through sixty-six and seven they fought the Congo war

With their fingers on their triggers, knee-deep in gore

For days and nights they battled the Bantu to their knees

They killed to earn their living and to help out the Congolese

Roland the Thompson gunner...

His comrades fought beside him - Van Owen and the rest

But of all the Thompson gunners, Roland was the best

So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead

That son-of-a-bitch Van Owen blew off Roland's head

Roland the headless Thompson gunner

Norway's bravest son

Time, time, time

For another peaceful war

But time stands still for Roland

'Til he evens up the score

They can still see his headless body stalking through the night

In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun

In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun

Roland searched the continent for the man who'd done him in

He found him in Mombassa in a barroom drinking gin

Roland aimed his Thompson gun - he didn't say a word

But he blew Van Owen's body from there to Johannesburg

Roland the headless Thompson gunner...

The eternal Thompson gunner

still wandering through the night

Now it's ten years later but he still keeps up the fight

In Ireland, in Lebanon, in Palestine and Berkeley

Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun and bought it

[jrt]

I didn't think anyone would get it. You should get a quiz point for that!

43997[/snapback]

 

I'll never pass up the chance for a bad joke!

 

I guess it helped that I listened to the album the other day.

Jason

[Dirtybill]

And it must be noted that another friend of Mr. Thompson has passed away. Warren Zevon succumbed to lung cancer just the other day. Maybe he has found Roland.

43987[/snapback]

 

Slight correction. Warren Zevon died approx a year ago. He recorded his last album knowing that he was dieing of cancer.

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

Hah! What an idiot I am. I didn't even read the date on the press release. Maybe Warren went early to setup van Owen for when Mr. Thompson arrives!

[badmotogoozer]

fear and loathing at the end of a revolver.

 

a long time favorite writer.

 

Rj

 

"Never turn your back on a drug - especially when it is waving a razor sharp knife in your face." - HST

[supertwin1]

I'm with 'ya dlaing...now we need to organize!

[dlaing]

I'm with  'ya dlaing...now we need to organize!

44104[/snapback]

Judging by your bike, you are alot better at organizing than I am.

But I shalll follow....

They can't kill all of us, right?

[dlaing]

PS I just love how the News media says that Chirac and Bush have nothing in common! what a bunch of BS

[dlaing]

2003 interview Thompson gave on KDNK in the Roaring Fork Valley in Colorado. An excerpt: "Bush is really the evil one here and it is more than just him. We are the Nazis in this game and I don't like it. I am embarrassed and I am pissed off. I mean to say something. I think a lot of people in this country agree with me - a lot than that are saying anything...we'll see what happens to me if I get my head cut off next week -- it is always unknown or bushy-haired strangers who commit suicide right afterwards with no witnesses."

[dlaing]

To cut the conspiracy short, his wife was apparently on the phone with him when he pulled the trigger.

I can't imagine the suffering his family is going through

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/23/164218