Time For Drinking

Hunter S. Thompson, R.I.P.

ASPEN, Colo. - Hunter S. Thompson, the hard-living writer who inserted himself into his accounts of America's underbelly and popularized a first-person form of journalism in books such as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," has committed suicide.

Thompson was found dead Sunday in his Aspen-area home of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, sheriff's officials said. He was 67. Thompson's wife, Anita, had gone out before the shooting and was not home at the time. His son, Juan, found the body.

Thompson "took his life with a gunshot to the head," the wife and son said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News. The statement asked for privacy for Thompson's family and, using the Latin term for Earth, added, "He stomped terra."

Read the rest here.

I was 16 when I read "Fear and Loathing" and, needless to say, it completely changed my outlook on the world. It opened my eyes to a dirty, secret, exciting part of humanity that I never knew existed. Who knows, maybe it never did exist. I guess that's part of the beauty.

R.I.P, you crazy old bastard.

Bush, Dildos, and Satan

Stop mocking me, you fucker!

I'm not sure if you can legally call "Time For Drinking" a blog anymore, since I only update about twice a month. Whatever. I've been busy with stuff. Seriously.

Also, the news has just been too fucking depressing to write about. Last week, all we heard about was King Satan's $40 Million Dollar Inauguration Hoedown. For that amount of money, Thailand could probably buy a pretty nice Tsunami warning system, don't you think?

And what was up with that "Devil Horn" salute? Was he mocking me and all other liberal heavy metal fans. Well, fuck you, waver!

Maybe he was guessing how many "male appendages" a Vancouver-area man stole from a sex shop Friday. Sorry, Georgie, the answer was "three". I guess he was stocking up for his own little inauguration party!

Well, here's hoping this week's news will feature more stories about dildo thieves and less about dildo presidents.

Old people should never be naked. Ever.

The .... horror...

Last week, we had not one, but TWO horrific stories of underdressed oldies. First, there was Dean L. Wooten, 65, a Wal-Mart greeter who was fired recently for "greeting" customers with naked photos of himself.

Then, it got worse. Much, much worse.

Thanks to Fox Television, the keepers of good taste on television, we won't have to see Mickey Rooney's bare, 84-year-old ass on Super Bowl Sunday.

An ad for the cold medicine Airborne featuring the old-time actor's naked, wrinkly butt was rejected by Fox last week. The commercial is set in a sauna and depicts Rooney panicking when someone coughs. His towel drops as he rushes out, revealing his disgusting, prune-like, ass.

"Our standards department reviewed the ad, and it was deemed inappropriate for broadcast television," Fox Sports spokesman Lou D'Ermilio said.

Thank you, Mr. D'Ermilio. And goddamn you, Mickey Rooney, for giving me a week's worth of nightmares.

Tsunamis is Whack!

Tsunamis suck.

I've never seen one personally, but from what I see on the TV, a Tsumani can really fuck your shit up.

Last week, the Asian Tsunami Disaster killed an estimated 150,000 people and left 5 million in need. George W. Bush kindly offered $15 million dollars, or less than half the amount he's going to spend on his own inauguration.

Don't be a cheap-ass bitch like Bush - give a donataion to the tsunami victims here.

In related news, right-wing peckerwoods are blaming the Tsunamis on (wait for it)... THE GAYS!

Courtesy of I Hate Pat Robertson.

Gregoire Wins?

"And with this hand I did smacketh Rossi!"

In one of the closest elections in US history, it appears Chris Gregoire will be the next Washington State Governor. Does this mean I can exhale?

SEATTLE, Dec. 22 -- It took three statewide counts and a ruling by the Washington State Supreme Court to do it, but Christine Gregoire, the Democratic candidate for governor, has taken a narrow -- and perhaps decisive -- lead in one of the closest statewide elections in U.S. history.

The state Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that at least 573 previously disqualified absentee ballots -- potentially enough to swing the state's tightest election ever for Gregoire -- can be counted. The votes are from King County, which includes Seattle and is by far the largest and most strongly Democratic county in the state.

Hours after the court ruling, the King County elections office released recount figures showing that -- even without the disputed votes that the state's highest court will now allow counted -- Gregoire had picked up enough votes to give her an 10-vote statewide victory over Republican Dino Rossi.

from The Washington Post