Hunter Thompson's Rites Mushroom

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http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_3634898,00.html

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So Hunter S. Thompson walks into a Los Angeles mortuary in 1977 and says he wants his cremated remains shot out of an upside-down, sculpted mushroom perched on a 150-foot- high, double-thumbed fist.

This is no joke.

An obscure, approximately seven-minute clip from a BBC documentary commemorating the idea is now guiding Thompson's friends and family trying to fulfill those wishes after his Feb. 20 suicide at his home near Aspen.

"It's quite an interesting idea," says illustrator Ralph Steadman, a longtime Thompson collaborator who accompanied him to the mortuary and made drawings of the monument. "Why not do that if you can?"

Thompson's battle-tested inner- circle says they can do it - or at least a close facsimile. They stress that actual details are yet to be nailed down and will involve consultations and approvals from neighbors and relevant government bodies - possibly even the Federal Aviation Administration.

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Los Angeles-based Steve Cohn has been brought on board to oversee the construction project by actor Johnny Depp, who portrayed Thompson in the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Cohn and family members could not offer a cost estimate for the monument. But Steadman, who lives in England, already has at least a partial funding solution.

He plans to release up to 200 prints of the monument, with Thompson flying through the air with angel wings. Steadman hopes to have luminaries who attended Thompson's commemoration, including Sean Penn, Jack Nicholson and Bill Murray, sign the prints. Steadman plans to sell them for up to $2,000 apiece and give the money to the monument fund.

The monument would be permanent and visitors might walk along the same path Thompson takes as the BBC clip ends.


....sounds like a STELLAR idea to me too BUBBA! :D

[Bossy Monkey]

1. But shouldn't the urn be on a Vincent Black Shadow? :D n/t

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2. I heard Depp was working with them on trying to make the fist cannon thing

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3. a kick for Doc.......

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4. Buy the Ticket

Take the Ride

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5. Just wait till you see the goddamn bats...

:o

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6. There's a fucking raging lizard out here.

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7. the weasles were closing in...I could smell the brutes....FLEE!

:D

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8. ....

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9. ....

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11. !!!

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10. !

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12. sigh...kick...