Gone-zo
: Hunter Thompson commits suicide.
Thompson was really the first reaction to one-size-fits-all journalism. He was the argument that the grand shared experience of media in a three-network, one-newspaper-town world was actually bad because it was boring and institutional and inhuman. Thompson tried to inject humanity back into journalism. He injected it like drugs into his veins and, yes, sometimes it was a bad trip.
: LATER: At the Borders near here, they wasted no time putting up a sales shrine.