When I read various MSN nicknames of friends to the passing of Hunter S. Thompson, I thought "holy shit, can you be any cheesier". When some people hear the death of someone, their reaction seems odd to me... some people become overtly passionate and irrational while others become totally silent. However, once I read Warren Ellis's perspective on Hunter S. Thompson's Death, my feelings about it felt both terrible and vindicated.
What makes Thompson's death even more odd was how the American and some Canadian news handle it, as a factory celebrity death. I would rather hear how the person died in detail rather than "this person died today of such and such, and that person died yesterday of these causes". Let's hope they change the style of "factory celebrity death" reporting in twenty years.
2 comments:
yeah, all the hipsters are hopping on the mourning train to Hunter S. Thompson's death brigade. I feel like I am in univerity sitting in an M.I.T. class surrounded by kids trying to out-cool one another.
I would like to change the topic to the other side of the spectrum and extend to you a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Houray. And see? I know you and feel very comfortable celebrating your day of birth rather than some dude I only knew in text.
:)
thanks.
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