He was the best at at what he did and what he did wasn't nice most of the time. People don't realize how much we owe him for his work. About time to visit his homepage...

"Hunter S. Thompson, the maverick journalist and author whose savage chronicling of the underbelly of American life and politics embodied a new kind of nonfiction writing he called "gonzo journalism," died yesterday in Colorado. Tricia Louthis, of the Pitkin County Sheriff's Office, said Mr. Thompson had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Woody Creek, Colo., yesterday afternoon. He was 65.

Mr. Thompson, a magazine and newspaper writer who also wrote almost a dozen books, was perhaps best known for his book, 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', which became a Hollywood movie in 1998. But he was better known for his hard-driving lifestyle and acerbic eye for truth which he used in the style of first-person reporting that came to be known as 'gonzo' in the 1960's, where the usually-anonymous reporter becomes a central character in the story, a conduit of subjectivity." (New York Times)