Hunter S. Thompson, Author, 67

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
    --Hunter S. Thompson

Wow.  Hunter S. Thompson, father of Gonzo journalism, died Sunday, February 20, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to this CNN story.  I'd like to nominate him as the patron saint of bloggers. Thompson's last column, Shotgun Golf with Bill Murray,  is here at ESPN.

More links about Thompson at the NYT, Wikipedia,  and Disinformation. 

I have spent half my life trying to get away from journalism, but I am still mired in it - a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world full of misfits and drunkards and failures.
--1988, Generation of Swine

I've never tried to pose as a goddam reporter. l don't defend what I do in the context of straight journalism, and if some people regard me as a reporter who's gone bad rather than a writer who's just doing his job--well, they're probably the same dingbats who think John Chancellor's an acid freak and [Walter] Cronkite is a white slaver.
--1974, Nov. "Playboy Interview: Hunter Thompson." Playboy.

Quotes source: Hunter S. Thompson by Arthur J. Kaul