“Don’t believe their filthy lies. Giblets saw the Good Doctor with his own two eyes just a few hours ago, heading north in the White Whale. He said he was headed up to heaven to shoot God. “The great bastard’s in season and it’s long overdue,” the Godfather of Gonzo said as he dusted off his elephant gun. “I have full reason to believe they will award me both the head and the tail. Expect me back by the apocalypse. “Good hunting, Doctor Thompson. You’ll be missed.”—Giblets @ Fafblog, 21FEB2005

Gonzo is Dead! Long Live Gonzo! It’s no secret that HST influenced me pretty seriously. His balls-to-the-wall reporting, especially “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72”,convinced me that journalism and history could have flavor and dissent should be scathing. In politics we usually have an indescribable sense that something’s not right, like some invisible axe murder’s creeping around coeds in a coffee shop. Then in walked the Good Doctor to burn a cigarette hole in the bastard’s for head.

“Four more years of George Bush will be like four more years of syphilis.” [link]

His words always seemed a bit savage, maybe too barbaric for polite company. He wielded words like a meat hammer. We might have said it differently, been a bit more tactful and civilized. But then we’d get wha twe got, so I can’t help feel that a few more meat hammer wielding freaks in the newsrooms of America we got, so I can’t help feel that a few more meat hammer wielding freaks in the newsrooms of America would be a good thing. Happy hunting, Hunter.