PolarLava::Blog

I wake today to the sad news that America's greatest "gonzo" journalist, Hunter S. Thompson blew his brains out yesterday.  I'm sure this will get heavy rotation in the "blogosphere" today and likely for days to come.  My admiration of Hunter comes from reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas back in the early 1980's.  A bizarre and wonderful tale of depravity and over indulgence while covering a district attorneys' anti-drug conference in the city of Lost Wages.  Lets just say it struck a chord with me.

"We had two bags of Grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…. also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls… but the only thing that worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge…"

• Hunter S. Thompson from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of AC/DC's Bon Scott's death.  Although I don't follow AC/DC as much now as I once did, I still enjoy their music.  I remember very well the day that Bon died.  I was riding up I-94 North with my middle sister, Melanie driving when I heard the report on the radio.  I was very sad to hear this news because they had just started to break into the big time with "Highway to Hell".  I pretty much figured the band was done for because after all, how many bands survive losing their lead singer?  I'd say they survived very well indeed as the follow up release, "Back In Black" with Brian Johnson replacing Bon selling millions of copies.

Anyhow, Melanie just didn't understand the magnitude of Bon's death.  She wasn't into heavy metal at all and didn't even know who he was.  Sad.  Just sad.  This was major news in the rock world, and it completely escaped her.  For me this was huge because I lived for rock and roll then…and still do now.  R.I.P. Bon.

A tribute get together will be held in Cherry, AU tomorrow.

Ah, nothing like having a good reliable ol' dog around to fetch things for you.  Just think of all the cool things that you could teach him to fetch for you.  Your friends will be most impressed…that is, until it comes back and bites you in the ass!