Derbybud
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That's why I subbed.Just starting up fellows. Things can only get weirder from here.
Kismet Goes Gonzo For The Kind
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Kismet
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When the going gets weird the weird turn pro. Gonzo rest in peace and get shot out of a cannon when you die. Glad to have you here Derb. If it wasn't for you guys and Newty i know i wouldn't be sailing smoothly like i am now. Reps to you and the crew. Been a wonderful experience learning from the best !
Derbybud
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Hell dude you did it on your own we just stuck around for the entertainment.
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Kismet
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“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”
Derbybud
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And now I'm here
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Kismet
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“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson
― Hunter S. Thompson
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Kismet
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I had a experience on mushrooms one night. Had a beautiful girl we were both blazing they kicked in during dinner so we both couldn't eat when the food got there so we got boxes to go after spilling our drinks all over laughing tipping our way out of there. Then driving home, I swear Gonzo came down and took over my body. (HsT). I was ok with it. Dude still rather be here is what i felt. He is out there floating around waiting to trip balls lmao. It happened.
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Kismet
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.......and skid into the afterlife in a cloud of smoke is exactly what eccentric cult journalist and outspoken hell raiser Hunter S. Thompson did. After 67 years of brilliance, madness, and rabble-rousing, the father of Gonzo journalism ended the ride with a single shot from a .45 while sitting in front of his typewriter.
Thompson, who had been suffering a number of painful health ailments and was confined to a wheelchair at the time of his death, had been courting his demise for years. His misanthropic, drug-addled, sometimes savage stories were, in part, reflections of his true self, and his tendency toward self-destruction was well recorded. He often spoke of his own death with family, friends and interviewers, and in a 1977 documentary by the BBC, he casually suggested how it should be properly celebrated – by shooting his ashes out of a cannon encased in a giant, two-thumbed fist clutching a peyote button, an image he had created as his insignia.
In August of 2005, that’s exactly what happened. A 153-ft tower in the shape of Thompson’s iconic fist was fitted with a cannon, and in a private ceremony, his ashes were launched into the Colorado sky along with a fireworks display while Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” jangled dolefully in the background. The price tag on the funeral of his own design is said to be around the $2 million mark, the majority of which was covered by actor and friend Johnny Depp.
A year after his death, a small group of friends and admirers created a shrine for Thompson in the Snowmass ski area, near his home in Woody Creek. The group, who call themselves “GLUM”, standing for “Glorious Leaders of the Underground Movement”, have built a bench and devoted several trees to remembering the fallen anti-hero. The shrine is updated every year on President’s Day, and is a mishmash of photos, relevant articles, and the usual things you’d find at a memorial site, peppered in with more specifically Thompson-esque items – bullet shells, mannequin arms and booze bottles hung from the tree branches.
Thompson, who had been suffering a number of painful health ailments and was confined to a wheelchair at the time of his death, had been courting his demise for years. His misanthropic, drug-addled, sometimes savage stories were, in part, reflections of his true self, and his tendency toward self-destruction was well recorded. He often spoke of his own death with family, friends and interviewers, and in a 1977 documentary by the BBC, he casually suggested how it should be properly celebrated – by shooting his ashes out of a cannon encased in a giant, two-thumbed fist clutching a peyote button, an image he had created as his insignia.
In August of 2005, that’s exactly what happened. A 153-ft tower in the shape of Thompson’s iconic fist was fitted with a cannon, and in a private ceremony, his ashes were launched into the Colorado sky along with a fireworks display while Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” jangled dolefully in the background. The price tag on the funeral of his own design is said to be around the $2 million mark, the majority of which was covered by actor and friend Johnny Depp.
A year after his death, a small group of friends and admirers created a shrine for Thompson in the Snowmass ski area, near his home in Woody Creek. The group, who call themselves “GLUM”, standing for “Glorious Leaders of the Underground Movement”, have built a bench and devoted several trees to remembering the fallen anti-hero. The shrine is updated every year on President’s Day, and is a mishmash of photos, relevant articles, and the usual things you’d find at a memorial site, peppered in with more specifically Thompson-esque items – bullet shells, mannequin arms and booze bottles hung from the tree branches.
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Kismet
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Dudes my anti hero forever. Trip with the Duke
Interesting piece of history there Kis!
Dusty Kiefers
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Im in
I'm finally here too! Sorry I'm late, I'll hang in the back as I don't take up much room.
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Kismet
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Welcome Dusty ,Magoo and Shed ! Mahalo
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Kismet
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Get you guys another update this week coming up. Been dealing with some family and friend issues the last couple of weeks and work has really started up heavy again. I'll squeeze one in as soon as possible. Keep on smoking that kind.
We've missed you! Hope things get sorted soon.
Wondered where you've been.
Derbybud
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DonChiefums20
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A little late all caught up 
CraZysWeeD
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Great to have you back Kismet! Your Cheese plants looked awesome, much bigger buds than mine but they were autos run in 12/12 so my 100g wasn't too bad anyways I think.
This Bonsaiweed you got growing is that some legacy left behind from master him self?
