Thursday, March 03, 2005

More HST

There are acres of lovely Hunter S. Thompson conspiracy theories making the rounds now. Among the things noted are that the story of how he died apparently has changed (was he in the kitchen talking ot his wife or sitting at his desk?), the fact that he (and I find this a little unbelieveable) was at his typewriter, which had one sheet with the word 'eskimo' no, wait, I'm sorry, 'counseler' typed in the middle, the fact that his wife was on the phone with him and didn't hear a gunshot, and that he was allegedly working on an article on the World Trade Center.
Yes, that World Trade Center. The article was supposed to claim that the towers came down because charges were detonated in the basement.
Which is a pretty crappy theory, given the, you know, planes that flew into them. And the way they collapsed from the top. Which I saw on TV. 10,000 times.
But since this article was never written, and this is all heresay on the internets, who the hell knows. But I just wanted to inform you, gentle reader, that there are them that believe that HST was done by an 'inside job' to silence him.