"Football Season is Over"

Yes, I know, football season is just beginning. But the note below are the final words Hunter S. Thompson wrote just days before committing suicide. Rolling Stone magazine is set to print these last words in its next issue. You can read more about this story by pointing your browser to http://tinyurl.com/cgozx

Here is the note:

"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt."

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Hunter S. Thompson was one of my favorite authors. My eldest brother Joe, turned me on to Thompson with the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. And my highschool lit teacher recommended I read Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail of '72. Both books are fun reads and the latter really tells about politics in a way that a bewildered highschool student can understand. Thompson also wrote Hell's Angels about his time traveling with the famous renegade motorcycle gang. I also recommend The Great Shark Hunt arguably his finest work and The Curse of Lono, although that latter recommendation wasn't as good as the others.

I will miss Thompson's writing- he was truly a literary genius albeit a rather crazy one.