Figured I Should Say Something

Huh. Hunter Thompson killed himself. I'm eager to know why. If it's because he was washed up as a writer, than he probably should have done it some time in the '80s. I don't mean to be insensitive, because I was (for a time, anyway) a big fan, but I found that being a Hunter S. Thompson fan was a frustrating thing. I stopped reading his ESPN.com column a couple years ago; it was such lazy writing, so devoid of anything fresh, such clear evidence that excess had turned his brain to pudding. But I still held out hope that he still had it in him to write something good again. Oh well. Maybe he left a funnysuicide note.